THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN. SFPTEMBER 8, 1897

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’ horrible emotion concelva-

I came to a London

upon returning his

@ night, opened the

i saw himself lying on his

' A certain trick that he had

of reclining m his side, with one!

] Yn up and the right hand

y Srasping the coverlet, was |

tl It was himself. Censcious of

something frightfully wrong, he turn-

ed out, went down stairs and walked

a ng way in the crisp night air.

When he returned, his bed showed no sign of having been occupied,

Similar were my fealings when I elasped the hand of the man that had Stopped in front of me and extended his palm.

“This is not another person,” I | thought: “it s myself.’’ And my shivering was ensified when he an- nounced his name as Westcott.

By a terrifie effcrt I held my identity of feeling and in a husky voice said

You nam? is Westcott. What are your initials ?"°

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“Harmon O. Westcott—I know it.”

“You are mistaken. It is Harold Oo. Weste “8 lings

Whiff! The breath of life touched my fae, Harold O. Westeott could not be Harmon O. Westcott. I was alive. It was net a morbid figment

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ef the brain

No individual knows prrecisely his own voice sounds. It is with a Strange emoticon that he listens to its reproduction in the phonograph, even though it is squeaky and full of whin- ing.

Nevertheless I knew of a verity that the voice of the man in front of me Was my own.

His feelings must have been much the same, for the paling of his coun- tenance and the working of his mus- cles told by what.a tense effort he re- taimed his self~cantrol and conscious- ress.

“You will ceme with me ?’” marked, enquiringlty.

“Tam pleased to do so.”

He wheeled squarely about and we kept pace, side by side. The walk was a brief ome, but we encountered several gentlemen and a carriage con- taining a couple of young ladies, whom We saluted. Whether any of these persone was struck by the perfect simi- litude I cannot say. Probably in the brief, imperfect glances they did mot notice it.

Harold O. Westcott had bachelor apartments in a fashionable . quarter. His rooms were on the third floor, and We ascended to them by the elevator. Necessarily we came in contact with several individuals with whom my companion was acquainted. He ex- changed a word with them and made a pleasant remark to the elevator ‘boy.

I did not speak or look up, but kept

he re-

my Derby well down over my fore- head and twisted one side of my mouth, so as to change my counten-

ance to some extent. My friend not- ed and understood. The expression of his face showed that he was pleas- ed, for it might thelp to prevent ecm- Plications.

At last we were seated face to face fin his handsome apartments, and the key was turned in the lock. He ex- tended a box of Partagas toward me, and each of us Tit one.

“Shall I order some wine 7

“Thanks: I never touch it.’

“Wee: Be I. Well, my double.” the addec, with a lignt laugh, “this beats all creation. I mever saw anything like it, it is worth the minstrel’s joke,

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that each of us looks more like the Other than he does like nimself. How Old are you ?”

“Twenty-three yoars, four ionths, and st venteen days.”

‘That makes your birthday—Iet me £ee ’’—.

He snatched a golden pencil from his vest pocket, and, turning to the | table at his side, figured for a mo ment on a bit of paper.

“Well, Im blecsed'!’ he exclaimed. in a frightened haif whisper. * You were born on the sarme day as I. { doubt not that if the truth could known it would be found that the hour and minute of our birth were the Same. Have you any living relatives~’’

“I am an ornhan without brother or Fister. I have some distant kin, but so Gistant that we «are strangers.”

“My case | Under these unprecedented circumstances we ean be ccrfidential, for are not you I and I you ?” he asked, with his pleasing ¢mile. “You have more money thar you know what to do with ?”

‘On the contrary,. I have not Tuncred collars in the world.”

Ah, here, tien, comes the fng point. T am rich. As a quence I am the prey of a lot of har- pies, who make burden.”

*‘ Can’t you say ‘No’ to them ””

be

nrecisely

one

diverz- conse-

life a

“It do, bat the won't accept it. They worry me half to death: they seem to look uron > as legitimate prey: that’s one of the curses of

wealth.” ‘I would like the pleasure of ing with some of those

deal-

mzrked, compressing my lips.

* That plezrure shall € yours, Jove !”* And th mental nicture cf what he saw caused him to throw hack

tris head and laueh more heartily than he had yet done.

I had beer thinking hard ever sirce we first s}oke to each other. The cir- cumst: €s were so incredible, so vellcus, that I Getermined to make a ecnfidant of Harold O. Westcott.

After all, was he not myself ? Was ft not sufe to whisper my secrets in my own ear? He was eager to be cc nfidential Why should not J ad- Vince to meet him ?

lie had smoked awhile in silence, during which, he eved,. me with an

SIIGSecu ctmu Tet AWwea CUricsmn-y. i77ien he broke out, ibruptly :

“Tt passes my comprehension. TI have pinched myself several times to make sur I am not dreaming.”

“TI can explair all to you,’’

For hea \ sake do so.”

T then told everything that has heen related in the yx ting chapters, ex- rounding the theory of the late Pro-

Gorgensen, cf which I was the

verification. My companion lis-

i with open-mouthed amazement. ‘Do you tell me,”’ he asked, as soon as | could swallow his emotions,

it you have the strength of Same

| son of the olden times ?”

“Well,” I replied, with keen enjoy-

ment, “there is no way of telling pre- c'sely the strength of that miraculous man, but he must have had consid- erable muscular development to over- er thirty strapping fellows, to tear the jaws of a lion apart, to kill one

trousand men with the jawbone of an ass, and finally to pull down the pillars

of an immense structure so that he killed more people than in all his life before. { cannot claim to possess Similar inccnceivable power, but of one fact I am assured—I am ihe | Strongest man in the world unless

how | take

sS«mewhere else there is another Sam- sen living cut his life in obscurity. Put how is it as to your strength ? You ard I being duplicates so far as the eye can show ought to be so in every respect.”

He shook his head.

“If anything, my strength is less than usual. I lead a temperate life: regular exercise; have studied boxing and fencing for vears: have rewed, played tennis, golf, and done

; Tay utmost to strengthen my limbs and

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frame, but any crdinary man ¢an han- €le me without difficulty. How does all that affect Professor Gergensen’s theory ?°

“No doubt, if he were alive he could explain it. In truth, it is easier to un- derstand that fact than it is that I should persess this amazing gift. Hig theory is that after something more than 100,000,000 persons are created the variations of the face and figure aré exhausted and nature goes back to the beginning and starts over again, that she has been coing this ever since creation, so that the double, or rath- er the doubles, of every man and wo- men of the past have been reproduced again and again and are now walking up ard down the earth. This is not reincarnaticn; neither of us has exist- ed before, as some claim. ‘We are no- body but cur individual selves, but oe exact capies of Samsoa cf old.”

“ All this might be, ard perhaps ts, but Samson, like many characters of the. Bible, is exceptional; so when his double appeared, probably one hundred years or so after the falling of the Pillars of Gaza, to come up again and again through the succeeding cetu- ries, he resenibled him in every respect except in his apralling strength.”

“That is my thecry.”

“ Then, incredible power come tu

“Tt passes my ken, Professor Gorgensen said that Samson was reproduced in me he meant that the same marvellous power would re- pese in wy frame2, and he warned me against making unnecessary use of it. I was so sparing im putting it forth

vou ?’’

that, with the exception of the teacher :

whom I smote to the earth, my mother was the sirgle person that knew the truth, You are the only living man besides myself who knows my secret, and you do not believe it.”

He laughed, in this light, Wavy.

‘I wafttt to believe it, without a demonstration. ticns reversed, ask for a sign ?’

“ Most assuredly, and you shall have ae

I was

pleasing

but I can’t If our situa- would you not

were

prepared for this skenticism from the first, and ha@ made ready for

it. While conversing, my eyes roved about the apartment. Through the

cpen door I saw a iarge vafe standing in one corner of the adjoining room.

“What is the weight of that ?”

Fie turned his head to make sure he cid not misunderstand me.

I don’t know precisely, but between cne and two tons.”’

“Will you permit 7" I asked. rising from my chair, and moving hesitating- ly Toward.

“Do exactly what vou wish.”

I did not remove my eoat, but paus-

I did nto remove my coat, but paus- ed im front of the massive iron strue- ture and studied it for a moment.

The difficulty lay in getting hoid of it, for all safes are made to be handled by several persons, none of whose hands is expected to touch it.

I stood close beside it with my side pressed against the door. It came to my shoulder, so that by extending my arm outward my fingers easily clasped

the back and inner edge of the top. There was nothing to grasp, but I did not need the help. ‘Now, we'll see what c&n be done.” I bent my knees slightly, and as TI straightened up the safe was lifted clear. Supperted only by my extended

the top, with my over the farther edge, about the apartment ponderous structure in that ; and then gently set it back again in place on its tiny wheels.

fingers I walked with the

position

arm bent

easily

across

My friend sat in his chair, open mouthed, staring and speechless. Who can blame him ?

I looked around the apartment. In

one ccrner reposed. several dumbbells, & set of boxing gloves, foils and swores.

I picked up one of the exquisite

weapons.

““May I experiment with this ?”

He nodded his head and _ huskily whispered :—

“ Do anything you choose, except to Pull down the house.”

why, in your cas2, should the |

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mut observe "— tfolding the hare of the sword in nei hand. which<T rate 1 aloft rine 1 the blad } d hetween the The first nd third fingers were in th the se t finger |} hind

he hlade. Holding it thus, I sudad forth my strength in t} ‘ry, 90 as to bring them into ex. et line. The blade being an Obstacle thereto snapped apart like a pipe- stem, the pieces falling to the floor. ‘Great Heavens,” exclaimed Harold ‘it : ow 2 to ty you are as sti ng is Samscn: cur re tenfold ' The days of miracles turned. [I am not sure that

lad that it res‘e, Wye ‘Ss P %)>, lof ’ hnwers of my left hand

e three

strone- have re.- you will wizard. Can it am I dreaming ?” { walked smilingly back to the small- er room where we had first seated our- ] and resumed my chair. ume the demonstration is wr what,”

not be burned as a

be real, or

‘I pres

Satisfact ‘Some I quickly egaining his lightness manner. “You say you are poor, and vet you can naire in a brief time by hat awful gift of yours.” “IT have been to it, but dislik

he replied, ni of become a multimilli exhibiting thinking of resorting e the publicity. It will make me a man by myself. IT shall be alone in the world. I will not be regarded as a human being. TI shrink from the trial.”

‘You shall not make it. —hbut hold ! of boxing ?’’

“A fair knowledge—enough for all purposes.”

Harold struck his knee sounding slap, and laughed.

“ By Jove, you shall go with me to- night.”

“YT am at your seryic-:.”

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