Something passed over me as a blinding lightning flash, and behold! The body in the coffin struggled, sat up, clasped a trembling arm about Geraldine, and exclaimed,-- "I am not dead, Geraldine. And you, you infernal old villain, get out of my sight! Take off the battery; give me something to eat and drink!" The spirit had entered my body again. My love for Geraldine and her love for me had wrought the miracle, just as anxiety for her and love for her had wrought the first change. Ay, through love the world is made and destroyed. There is nothing more to tell. My story was so circumstantial that people generally believe it in spite of the learned doctors, who hold it to have been merely a case of suspended animation. In my mind and Geraldine's, however, there is no doubt about it. Besides, does not the learned Archidechus say--but never mind; if it were not for this affair Geraldine says she might have been years in finding out her heart as she did when she thought me dead, and her father never would have consented to our marriage as he did. He is very kind to us now, and we are very happy, and have only anxiety lest my spirit should ever take to wandering again. Geraldine says if it does she will marry John Haverford, who is still pining for her; but I know that is only a threat to prevent the dissolution of partnership, as she confesses in private that she would never marry any one but me--never! I am very fat and well now, and have burned up the parchments of the learned Archidechus, and am training myself utterly to disbelieve such things. The memory seems like a faint dream now in the light of our present happiness, for Geraldine is the loveliest and sweetest of wives, and says I am the best of husbands. And giving her that last word, I lay down the pen. THE END _By the same Author._ WHEN BLADES ARE OUT AND LOVE'S AFIELD By Cyrus Townsend Brady Illustrated. Decorated. 12mo. ornamented binding, $1.50 A comedy of cross purposes in the Carolinas, in which Mr. Brady has done some of his most fascinating work in the weaving into romance of historical fact and figure. The love story brings into the action two peculiarly charming women of contrasting types, and these play foremost parts in the plot. The book is notable besides for its introduction of the figure of General Greene, and for its account of the brilliant role he played in the campaign in the South. Mr. Brady may always be depended upon for brisk action and a wealth of incident. For all who enjoy adventure and gallant deeds, and the winning of hearts, this novel will be a delight. It is a conspicuous example of beautiful book-making, bound in buff cloth with brown stamping. It has the distinction of eight illustrations from drawings by E. Plaisted Abbott, and decorations in colors by E. S. Holloway, besides head- and tail-pieces.