NUMBER 222.

! A MESMERIST" IN PEISON.

Undee the title of -' Number 222' the • Cornhill Magazine , contains a stoty relating the strange doings of a mes merist in prison, , 'Number 222-' was a man named John M'Gibbon, who had passed into prison as the! result of an ingenious but unsuccessful attempt to pay old debts in a new way. Being of a genuine philosophic tempera' mentjhe bowed resignedly to the inevi table, and .made himself as comfortable as he could. Amongst his relaxations were the occasional visits of the chaplain, a fat and pleasant man, wlio would listen with an air of sivrpriso while the prisoner told \ him many, strange tricks in cards, and the'profits that might proceed from the skilful manipulation of a double pack. Not infrequently the chaplain , , dissented, from the prisoner's views on car playing, and on these occasions Number 222 would reply that .when he alluded to the concealment of acfes in the sleeve of an experienced player he did not suggest that his hearer should resort to such practices. His object was merely to expound the possibilities of an art' of which he desired that the chaplain, should never become the victim. ' Knowledge, even of this peculiar kind,' he said> ' iriay be of service, sir, to the best of us, in circumstances which can never be foretold.' Sometimes the chaplain was disposed to get up and go while one oi these discourses was in progress, but as often as he attempted this a glance from the prisoner's eye drew him to his seat again, and he wes powerless to move until he felt that the prisoner by. his own will released him. Thus the chaplain also was drawn within the influonce of that mysterious eye. Extraordinary things began to hap pen in the prison, and it became evident that the internal order of that establishment was less strictly kept than before. This made for the com fort of the prisoners and for the dis oomfort of the officers.

'Curious things happened to warders who had made themselves unpopular with the prisoners. They went to sleep quite early in the afternoon while presiding over a gang in the workshop; they forgot how to count their men■ on parade; they shouldered their _r rifles upside down; they made pointless jokes in the presence of the Deputy- Governor, which he greatly disliked: they carried prisoners for punishment "before-the Governor and did not re member What they had : charged them with

Several of the warders laid their heads together in the mess-room, and said they believed Number 222 was the source of all this mischief. They agreed thereupon that the life of this prisoner must he made a burden to him, that he' might cease to exorcise his diabolical powers to the injury;bf the warders., r. . t '■■ A warder appeared one evening.at the cell of Number 222, and Charged him with some stupid offence which it would have been beneath the dignity of any intelligent prisoner to be guitty

'My 'ash, sir. Going to settle my 'ash. Are you going to , kill me ?". -';. ~..^0h,.n0," replied.Number. 222. ;l ;l am not going to hurt you : m : the i least. I have thought of another and more effective mode of dealing; Withyou. I am simply going-to- request yott to stand on your head for a few moments, here in the middle of the cell.. I hear the Governor coming ; be good enough to-comely withmy request at oncei'

of. . - : "' ■" ■ : ■■: ; ;: By th\s time, Number 222' had ac quired such control .over the : volition of this warder that he could make a. slave of him by a nod. He suffered him to set forth his charge, andthen, rising from his stool, he placed himself before the officer, and with: a,.single glance he struck him into a state of cataleptic rigidity. , , When in the cataleptic state, the victim always remembered what had occurred in the former abnormal situa tions, and he seldom failed to revert to-the incident of the staff transformed into a whisky bottle.' • Let Us have a little whisky, sir~ do,' he pleaded in a wheedling tone, for in this condition he was a creature distinct from his waking self. ■ :' ■'■•■■ 'Silence!' said the. prisoner,. Who was now again the master. ;,-,,, .., 'I'm a-waiting your ordeis' sir,' re plied the warder submissively, ' You shall have them.soon enough,' said Number 222.' .'Listen^! to one. In.your -present condition you are in my power; when I release, you I am in yours., Your power you use , like a tyrant, and I of it and; of you.. You are a poor despicable, creature whom .the' accident of. fortune, has placed in a position of almost un limited 'authority over . some hundreds of unhappy criminals. I admit that ijatinyjin thie'M^^fP^^^^^ 1 and merit "no 'better' fate than the desperate one they - suffer here. But you are a very bad f man ; also; the least suited, therefore,- to' have-power over your natural kin. Over good men-a bad ruler'iis,;ani intolerable curse. You have too long abused,..ypux power; $m-< you , shall 'abuse it;iio longer. I put an end to your'njlei tOrftJght. ', _ : At-'these pretentoua 'words the •warder, turned whiter than. the white-, washed walls'of the ccli;' : His muscles quivered, and he Shook in every; limb. . 'What are you going to do with me, sir f he quavered.; ;■ : :; . ' , T •"■• ]. '■■■ ' I am going to settle your hash,' replied her 22.2 gravely, : adopting the mode'of speech best ; calculated to, strike home to the feelings and inteP ligence at thel'-Vatrder. i: '■*"■[.': .;.:"■ :■,::' - .; : l

The Governor, in fact, was making a round of the prison that, evening, and at that very moment his step cotild be heard coming in the direction of pie cell where this.unusual colloquy ..was proceeding. , ~. .. j ; j . j Stand on your head/ said Numjb'er, |222. 'Th e Governor will be hear jin a moment.' ■ A dense sweat broke upon [the warder's forehead, and glittered there ih boads, '';' ';: ; ' .'; ' ■;' ; ["'; 'Stand oh your'head !' v repeated the prisoner, coldly and calmly. ' I won't!' said the warder doggedly; but his tremulous features and the rocking of his body showed him in capable of resistance to the terrible will of Number 222. V, '.;

The Governor's step came nearer. The. warder had not closed the door of the cell, and it gaped some six inches. 'Obey, me now,l«ay !' exclaimed the prisoner, and his eyes shot fire into the wild and fearful orbs of his victim.

One convulsive effort to be master of himself the wretched warder made, but the prisoner held him with his eye, and made two rapid passes across the upper portion of the warder's face. The body of the warder sprang for ward, he turned a half-somersault, and placed himself heels uppermost in the centre of the cell. .

Tlvq Governor, with the chief warder at his elbow, paused at the uulpcked door, pushed it open and looked in. Spectacles of this sort were not common in the prison, and for a moment the Governor seemed to doubt what he saw before him.

He advanced a step into the cell and there halted, speechless and confounded. The chief warder looked over the Governor's shoulder, and he also seemed vefy much surprised. Number 222 had risen 013 the entrance of the Governor, and stood to attention, with his hands at his sides. His countenance exhibited an air of mild concern/merging in pity. , , In the middle of the cell, the warder slept serenely on his head.

'In Heaven's name, what's this , ?' the Governor exclaimed at length, and he made a lounge with hia cane at the inverted figure of the warder. 'Mr Smith on his head, sir. Would stand that way when he heard you coming, sir,' responded Number 222. • • Get up 1 Atten— -tion ! Stand on your light end! Is this a damned skittle alley V roared the Governor, but the warder's ear was accessible only to the voice of the prisoner. ' What—yuu won't!' and the Gover nor struck him fiercely two Oiv three times with his cane; but the warder was insensible to every shock. Number 222,, who alone; had con trol of- the warder's : abnormal con sciousness, now silently exerted his will } and the warder at once resumed an upright posture, and his senses awoke. Of the situation of _ the pre vious moment he , knew nothing; and seeing the Governor he concluded that he had just entered the cell,, and saluted him in the usual manner.

' Follow me, sir,' said the Governor, with suppressed fury, and the warder wont out after him, perceiving that something was amiss, but being quite without a ( clue to the situation. I The next day it was whispered in evety ward of the prison that Number 222 had worked another miracle, and that Warder Smith had" lost his office.

Yet wonders did not cease, and there was no ease for the warders. A subtle, imponderable forco, to which no material barriers could be opposed, issued from the cell of Number 222, and passed silently, swiftly, invisibly into the cells : of other prisoners, creating the strangest effects upon the occupants. Some were troubled with distressing dreams j some spoke of snakes, caterpillars and lobsters in their beds ; and not a few saw the dis embodied spirits of persons to whom they owed money. A great number suddenly became deaf, dumb, or in capableof movement when at work in the daytime, and remained so until the magical influence which seemed to sur round and overpower them was re moVed.\ One man was fined 200 marks for , saying that chocolate and cold quail would be a wholesome substitute for bread and cheese on Sunday, and anr other was put on bread and water for a week for complaining to tjli'e Governor that he saw blue flames playing about the head of the apothecary. The officers decided that the time had come when the ..Governor should be put in possession of such facts as they knew, and the chief warder, and the second Warder were deputed to wait upon him. They had an interview with the Go venor, and put him in possession of the facts. BUt there Avas really only One fact, and it amounted to this,; that extraordinary things had happened and were happening in the prison. The rest was conjecture,'and thfe conjecture of the ; chief: warder' and his subordin. ates reAucM itself to'this, that, in some way or other, which they could not ex plain, prisoner Number 222 was ac countable for everything that had larisen to "disturb, the peace of! the gaol. i The Governor, said; this was odd, for the warders had been compelled to ad mit that, so far as his own conduct was concerned Number 222 was an exem plary prisoner. But the Governor per ceived from the Statements told to him that the ctedit, if not, the salvation, of the gaol was at stake j so he swore once or twice to clear his mind, and having finished swearing, he ordered jthe prisoher.,t() be brought to: him.

' In the same breath •■ he counter manded the srder, swore again to show that hekiieVr what hewas; about, and would s r e!e the prisoner in his ce11.",, He was, conducted thither at once, and went in alone. -...,. j dumber 222, in "accordance with his regular habit) was. spending the half hour befdfe. bedtime' in;- a'Jittle quiet meditation, and had just; been specu lating as to the simplest and least troublesome 1 method by Whldh he might effect his escape, for the monotony of

an unprofitable confinement began to be irksome to him.

He read the purpQft of the Go vernor's visit in his face, and readily divined the causes to which it -was dwing; the warders had sent the Go vernor to interrogate and intimidate him.

■What then? 'Pooh!' said the pris oner to himself. ' Pooh 1'

' You are accused of creating disturb ances in the prison, said the Governor, and went on to lay his charge. While he spoke the prisoner's eye was engaged in a quiot but rigorous scrutiny of the Governor's features, and such points in his character as dis coveredthemselves - there were quickly noted.

, fiPooh!' the prisoner said to him self onco more, for he had satisfied him soli that the Governor also was sus ceptible. The Governor finished his harangue, and swore once or twice to show that he meant what he said. He was a man who did not swear except upon occa sion. ~,,,. ;..,,.' ~ ~; '

1 1 am going to take you in hand, my man !' said the Governor, at the conclu sion of his charge. I 'And I you, my man !' responded the prisoner, in dulcet but penetrating tones.

The Governor's first thought was that he had a : madman to deal with, and his hand went behind him in an instinctive search for the door.

' Remain where you are, , said the prisoner, Observing the Governor's movement. * I will show you the door by-aud-bye " The Governor, who' was a bulky man and full of blood, crimsoned from one ear to the other, and his throat and the bald space on his head grew red as well. There was a rattling in his throat, and then he said :-*-

'Do you know that I can have J'Ou flogged to' the bone for this, pri soner V

•' Yes, yes; but we will not talk of that. You and I are going to be ex cellent friends,' said Number 222. •Do you know who I am V The Go vernor's eyeballs were red now, and he was but just able to articulate.

1 Perfectly. But do you know who you are'? Come now, tell me your name.' The Governor made an effort to shout for assistance, but his tongue clave to his palate, and he could not get speech. 'Tell me your name, , said the pri soner soothingly, and as he spoke he waved both hands gently before the Governor's face.

'I am Major George Alexander Fordyce, I will have you flogged to death,' responded the Governor. 'Why will you talk of flogging V said Number 222, with a smile. ' Let us leave all that. We must be plea sant. Hike your name, but suppose I give you another. Tut, tut I you must not glare at me like that; I will make you. call yourself by whatever name I choose.' ;,-. . ■

He made another pass over the Go vernor's face, and the fury vanished from it, but a dull and sullen look came in its place. • Sit down upon this bucket while I think of another name for you. Sd ' ~r-ior the Governor's 'muscles had tugged him down, though he resisted with the whole force of hie will, i ' Now let me think. I must give you a name which shall be quite absurd and mean ingless. It will be such fun, you know; and you shall accept it de lightedly. See now, I'll call you Tickletoby the Tenth. Isn't it fun 1 Now, once more, what is your name V

The Governor sat silent upon the bucket, but an expression the most piteous imaginable overspread his fea tures.

I 'What is your name ?' repeated the prisoner, ■ 'Don't I , pleaded the Governor. 'Any name but that! It is so very* very foolish. , J ' Your name, sir, your name 1' saii the inexorable prisoner.

'Tick——No, no, please! Any name in the world but that 1'

j 'Besist me further, and I ■will dis solve you where you sit 1 Now, for the last time, your name!' ' Tickle—to—by the—the Tenth/ •murmured i the Governor, from whose lips the foolish words were wrung by the sheer willpower of the prisoner. Two passes more and the Governor smiled on him, and pronounced the name quite cheerfully. i Good !'. exclaimed "Number 222. ( I told you we should be excellent friends. One word more and I have done with you. You are my slave at present, but in five minutes I shall'be' yours. We are very friendly now, and I insist that you remain my friend in your ' waking state. Do 'you under stand tne 1 1 will it bo so.'

:'I shall certainly remain ;, your friend,' replied the Governor, in a tone of the most emphatic willingnesßi = 'Very gdod. Get off the bucket. I can*t have you sitting there when you 'fiiid yourself in authority again, for you look very ridiculous, and would wdtidet , what had been happening; ,.

The Governor rose smiling, and the moment he stood on his feet-he was tHe same man who had entered the cell minufcee earlier. , Number 222. was in a deferential attitude before him, and had, as the Governor imagined, just concluded a statement which made it clear, that he had been maliciously accused. : , : , .

: His feeling towards the prisoner waskindly, and when number 222 asked some slight favour of him, he granted it, end wished him a good night. ; •■' ■ '';"''• ■ ; ■••••' ■ I Number 222 went to bed, and slept tranquilly. The next day\ he decided finally that he would quit the prison, for, despite the conquests he had made within its Walls, he Was very tired of it. In no long time he had evolved and shaped his, plan. '. -

It was an adroit, and even n bvilliatit plan, It fascinated the author hin>

self. Two whole days he dwelt upon it, pored over it, toyed with it, and hugged it to himself, for the cunning of ib flattered , his vanity. He felt a scientific interest, in it apart from all question of its probable or possible for this plan involved the sub mission of his powers to a great and decisive test.

Briefly, it was this: he was to pro cure his release from prison without the lifting of a finger or the utterance of a syllable in his own behalf. Did such achievement lie within the compass of human skill 1

At this time there was residing in well-appointed chambers in Cork-street, Piccadilly, a young man favourably known to the beat society as the Hon. Allen Bede Fitzgibbon. He was a well bred and gracious young man,, for whom family connections, transparent penmanship, and an unusual reverence for the Constitution, had combined to procure the p'oafc of junior assistant secretary,to, the Secretary, of State -for. t-lie Home Department., r'■ ; «'f v

; One evening; some tljree \ o$;, foui daya after Number 222'(had resolved on obtaining his freedom, this young man dressed himself for a ball, and entered the cab which was to take him to the house of his entertainer' in Kensington

It was late, and tha night was cloudy; and as the cab passed through a dim and half-deserted square in the neighbourhood of the park, there ap peared suddenly to the startled vision of Fitz Gibbon, mirrored and flaming in space right ahead of him, this brief surprising legend : .

Professor John McGibbon,

Number 222 in H.M. Prison at—-,

Wrongfully Convicted,

The words hung before him in space for some five or six seconds, and melted into the darkness. In five or six seconds more they reappeared, burned in the air level with his gaze for about the same brief period, and again vanished. But by this time they im pressed themselves upon his brain. All that night, at intervals, the freakish words continued to assail him. They pricked his brain, made onset at his ears, and multiplied themselves in a thousand shapes and colours before his eyes. He had no joy at all that night, of woman, or of wine cup, or of valso.

He quitted the ball and called a cab to drive him home.

There was the legend still, painted in quivering yellow letters upon the curtain of the night. Alan went to bed like one in a nightmare ; for the thing had no sensible import for him; he could not pick the ghoet of a meaning out of those dubious words.

When he awoke they were still before him:

Professor John McGibbon,

Number 222 in H.M. Prison at— —,

Wrongfully Convicted,

And now appeared for the first time four new words in. the form ol a post script

He Tiiust be Released.

' The Devil he must I' said Alan,,and fell to thinking. 'Who is Professor John McGibbon, and why did they convict him wrongfully, and what in the name of Mesmer has it to do, s with me ¥ ■

'Mestnerl'

No sooner had he said this word than his mind began to be faintly illumined. He thought again, and having thought awhile he remembered somewhat.

John McGibbon, erstwhile Professor, was the name of the famous mesmerist, who, during a little summer of renown, had startled the town by his perform ances. He had once, at an evening party in Belgravia, mesmerised Alan himself with unequivocal success. He recalled the Professor's words on that occasion. f I believe that I could do anything I pleased with you,' the Pro fessor had said, and certainly he had done strange things that evening. He had, on the same occasion, mesmerised the Home Secretary, and made him declare that his watch was a baked potato, much to the annoyance of the Prime Minister, who was of the com-

pany,

IHe is capable almost of bringing about a change of Government,' said the Home Secretary, nervously draw ing a ghost on his blotting-pad. 'He 1 might, indeed, effect our re moval, sir,' said Fitzgibbon. He might bring on a revolution of some sort,' said the Hoxne Secretary. 'I believe he could do anything he pleased,' said Fitzgibbon, \ The Home Secretary, without further words, took a sheet of paper and began to write a letter in a tremulous, hasty way. >( ' What' are you doing, sir V [ Fitz gibbon ventured, to inquire. ' I cannot help it, Fitzgibbon,' answered his chief very nervously, and Writing as hard as he could, * Some thing controls and impels me. I am not master of myself. This man must be a vehement and unmitigating villain. I know he must, arid yet I am moved to Write that, having. fully inquired into the circumstances of his trial and conviction, it has been , borne in upon my mind that he is the victim of a desperate and dastardly conspiracy. There—don't interrupt tne; ■■ %: feel , sure that they were all in league against him. The judge was his enemy, the jury was packed, the counsel was a mere scoundrel. Oh, to think that justice should be so per verted in a country like ours! But he shall be released though I lose office for it." .' , •

And the Etome Secretary (a phleg matic and susceptible man at most times), who now wore the air of a,per son suddenly and completely possessed, finished his letter with an effort, and addressed the envelope to «The Go vernor of H.M. Prison at '

'Alan,' he said then, With forest jocularity, <•! am going to give ycu an afternoon in the country. These foolish events have upset you; you

want a breath of fresh air, my boy. Take this letter, and travel down by the afternoon express, and give it into the Governor's own hands.' His man ner changed, and he added sadly: is a most deplorable business, but I feel that I shall not rest till ifc is settled. Let me see you the moment yea return.' That afternoon, as he sat in the prison workshop diligently stitching wjaistcoats, a strange calm stole over the spirit of prisoner Number 222, and in the same moment he knew that his will had'triumphed, and that the hour of release was at hand.

Late that night Alan arrived at the prison and demanded to see the Go vernor on business of the Home Secre tary. He was shown at once into the Governor's presence, and gave him the letter that he bore.

The Governor read it and looked eun.-rised, but said that he was not sorry. j .The ,next;,day jNumbei- 222 was a If roe man. ,■■ -.'. -,- :> :; ; .:■■- / ,-.

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.RIFLE 3; RIF Mg ,:■■■' . ;,'- REVOLVERS REVOLVERS GUNPOWD ER -; ' Shob, Caps, Cartridges, Wire CAnTs IDOES) Lo ADI:fa Appa * g ' AMMUNITION.,: ." Qβ- Every Fishing Tackle, Cutlery, Works, The beat and cheapest House in ay,!,'"' < • • - Repairs and every description of OnL' •?' " I. tthe lowest possible prlcM"SfflJ»bWi guaranteed! " • v^iactioii« D. EVlTtT^njuker 1 " iV; QUEEN-STREET, 'AUoWW' (Opposite the MtoketH^«sJsfc PRICE LISTS Sa^OANY^nm^ T, ' p E A o Mi OPTICIAN • f < WT MATHEMATICAL AND* NAUTICAL i: ■NSTRUMKNT MAKER i : SHOKTtAND-STKKET. ' '••'■ > ; U' ; ALWAYS IN STOCK- Spectaclea uud .kyo-jjiuaaes o£ even uLa" ' accurate ut guaranteed ;"',; '"-"injjai Opera Glasses 01 superior quality' ,, ' ' > '-"'■ Telescopes, Binocular ifusla Ulassaj nd Via/ scopes; powerful and cliean--- aiD TO ; The6doliteS, alining Combassfes' aJhw V'e:''*' - Drainage bevels, WSoSffl^. r Drawing Instruments, Scales, Parallelß n Ships' Logs, Sextants, Compasses, S,? I Barometers, Thermometcra, HySdfiS t Electric Bells Batteries, and iitS ■- Magnetic and Galvanic Medical Machines Magic Lanterns and Slides, Stereoscopes and Slides, Graphoscoties ™■ ; Steani Guages and Tubing Salinometets" v % .. . JUST KEOEIVBD- j ~-. ..., '< 00568^0^111 ' P° Jsl Se " l ssld^ neroid Barometers - stron eaDag<x)i f , Sett 22s?id MiaCrOSCOPe3, m . agnif r in B 1,750 times, IHStfiUJIEN-ra OF KVERV KIND BEPAJBEIH ' OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE.- ■ ' ■jmNCOURAGE- LOGAL,-INDUSTRY, p'ERAkBUtiATdkPAWfiV Victoeia-stkeet (near Freeman's Bay),■;■ ' CHARLES SMITH, I Manufacturer -of ' r BtissiiiCttes,: PerambßlSfceJ, I Invalids' Carriages, &o, : The prices have feu 1 carefully adjusted,-and iireas low aa i consistently with quality aiid: WorferoansMii; 1 ' | The fact that I guarantee and keep in one year is a sufficient. proo£p£ their. esjsellenceK Perambulators of any makerepaired(|riakeii|a; exchange. Price list post free. , '" ■:'*'; * '~y, £jOALB! Qott& [ - PER REBECCA. NOW DISCHARGING GOD ' COOPERATIVE MIWOASTLB HOUSEHOLD, AND BMITH? . COALS. As the market is now very bare of Sowg Coal, to secure supply, ordera shouli be sew. promptly. ___''' TAUPIRI, BAY, on supply. ■ W.& G. WINSTONE.. X> A-P EXHA N G I NG 3' JL \V, PHILLIPPS & SON HAVE RECEIVED, EX LATE !■ ; ISS-PxIICKAGBS-IS3 .. CONTAINING.' ...r , X 55) 000 ROLLS OF I CONSISTING OF NEW PATTERNS . |f ; or Cottago. . • ' g . BEAUTIFraDEStG^^pIg - 9i6 -EACKAGES-al6 ffi SCRIMS AN_D_IIESSIAI.S| w. phill'iips ft &• i 95 AOT ffi- J l . TOBACCONIST, &c., KABANG^ 1 |, ROAD (next Garrcfct, Butcher)- X .^«t^a^"| E ve^Sof Repairedto_order : ___ "ii TVEW'S Celebrated Tea, Six ro _ g