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The Jolly Mariner:
A. BALLAD
roux 0 'RIX
D. was a jolly mariner
As ever hove n log . ;
He wore Ids trowsers wide end free,
And alwros ale his prog,
And blessed his eyes, in sailor-wise,
And never sLirked his grog,.
Up spoke tai. jolly nimbler.
Whilst u Biking up end down
•'The briny sea bus ptnkled toe,
And done me vet, Epown;
'But here I goes. in these here clothes,
A cruising in the town:'
The 51 , 4 fir all the curious things
That chanced hi.' eye to meet,
As this undaunted cornice
Went sailingup the street,
Wa-, tripping with a little came,
A dandy all eompletel
Ile stopprd.—that jolly mariner,—
And eyed the stranger well:—
' , Whit; that may be,'' he caul, says he,
“ls more ihus I cut to I;
But neer before on sea or chore,
Was such x hotot)
lie met a lad) in her ho.-poi,
And than lieaid ban hail:
"Now blow me tight: but there's a Bight
To manage al In go t
1 new r saw so saint' a ,•raft
With -sett a spread o' soil!
"Observe lbe emit. be on, nod er:,
She'd make a pretty prize' .
And dn.. nuprop , r way,
He s; ot.e about but ey
That martnma are wont to Lice
111 anger ur surprt.e.
lie Pow a plumber on a roof,
Who tondo 14 1111,111) 111,1:• -
": , lopotate ahoy! , the rov, r tried,
`lt makes a oat or ;trio
To sea) no copper•bottoming
Vour upper-Llt.clhs woo tad
He met a yrllow•beurdrd matt,
Amd asked about the way,
But ow a w trd could tte mate out
of w•hut the. clap would .
1.711:.6 he meant to cull him names,
By ncreaming'•Nix fur-m 11"
Up spoke thi- jolly isr.rieer,
A At() the mail i'iod he,
"I bravely% sated there thirty years
elm the Ftor/n
To bear the qltame of such a
_name
As I have heard 'rola thee!
"So take thou thatr'—nna laid mum flat,
But soon the man am•e,
A lid heat the jol y mariner
Acme hi• hi,. Idly ito4e,
Till he was faun. truant very pain,
To) icid him to the blows
, Twas then tii• jolly manner,
A wr tehed jo ly tor,
Wished he was in njolly boat
Upon the sett u far,
Or riding fast, before the blast,
Upon a tangle ,Tarl
Twu.. then IMAM:Iy mariner
Returned unto bis +hip,
And told unto the wondertug crew
The awry of los trip,
IV,th many oaths and curses, too,
Upon his wicked IT:
As hoping—so this mariner
In fearful words hamngurd—
Ilis timbers might he shivered, end
His leward scnppers danged,
(A double curse, and vastly worse
Than being shot or hanged')
If ever he—and here again
A dreadful oath ho swore—
If ever he, except at sea,
Spoke any ignancr more,
Or like a son of—something—went
Arusing oaths shorn!
gEtEttiDll,s.
Front t'humbere Journal
The Cock and Bull Club.
I have never seen a ghost, and I don't
want to see one. If anything of that nature,
under a mistaken notion of benefiting me by
warning me of a danger, or pointing out a
treasure-hole, or putting me up to a good
thing on a future sporting event, should pre
sent itself, I should be frightened to death;
there would, if I know myself, be another
ghost in the room in about half a minute.—
As for devilmay-care dogs who visit necrop
°lines alone and at midnight, or who are
prepared to .eit up in their solitary beds and
pronounce their own names solemnly three
times, with the intention of raising their fa
miliar spirits—l don't believe such creatures
exist. What man dare do—n-ith reason and
respectability—l dare; "who dares d o more,"
I have good authority for stating, "is none."
When a certain spectral light steals into my
bed-chamber upon a sudden, I am accus
tomed to make me a sort of Crimean tent of
the blankets, whereupon I emerge only at
long intervals to breathe; I have lost more
pounds of flesh in this manner, thmugl,
moonbeams, than any African traveler sur
renders to the sun. Well do I remember
that particular terror in my boyhood, which
resulted in my remaining at five feet seven,
nstead of six feet one and a half—the alti
tude attained by each of my brothers; that
•hock from which my constitution took two
entire years to - recover itself, during which,
at youth's most growing time—l did not apt
preach the stars by a single inch. I was
about nine years of age when the frightful
incident occurred, and what is called—by
very old persons who have forgotten what
school was—a happy school boy; that term,
however, was, just then, applicable to me
enough, since I had got away from my place
of durance and instruction for a few days of
Easter vacation. I was staying at the house
of a cousin, who lined in the outskirts of a
large provincial town, of which—as I kept
in mind with unutterable awe—he was then
the Mayor. Cousin Richard was short and
stout to a degree that I should be now in
clined to term "podgy;" but being invested
with this supremo and mysterious dignity,
ho seemed to me to possess a presence more
imposing than that of any other being upon
the earth's surface. When he said: "You
must sleep in the red room, Harry, since you
are so fund of getting up early, and then you
won't disturb the house in the morning, in
putting on your boots," I submitted without
remonstrance. That I did like getting up
early—so that I might enjoy as much of the
present immunity from my schohutic privi
leges as possible—that I did commonly make
a tremendous noise in pulling on my boots,
was true enough; but that I should be put
in the red room, the state-apartment dedi
cated to exalted guests, away from the rest
of the house, and,—almost to a certainty
—haunted, seemed a mode of prevention
worthy of the worst days of the inquisi
tion. Had my father proposed such a
proceeding, liad my schoolmaster, had,
indeed, any authority with whom I could
grapple, and of whose powers I could cal
culate the extent, I would have protested
manfully; but the edict of the Mayor ap
peared to settle the matter beyondE lispute.
arid I knocked under at uneo with an Asiatic
servility.
51 50
I need not say how the rest of that after
noon was embittered by the thought of the
night that was to tbllow; those who are ac
quainted with such terrors can easily enough
imagine them; those who are not can never
be mittle to understand them by mere de
scription. Enough to say that ulanat nine
o'elock, P. M., I found inyi-elf in the big
bed in the red room. inn cold b.rth of per
spiratioti, with toy eye: tightly closed,
eteleavorin4 to go to sleep bef ire the adults
of the house should have :mired. As long
as the of tongues anti feet continued.
however much ill the distance. my mind
would. I knew, be emnporatively tranquil..
and sul t ieet to the influence of the dreamy
god; but if ~nee the sense of solitude should
creep over me. slumber would become inn.
possible, and I should fall a victim to the
dreadful powers of darkness for the rest of
the night.
I did go to sleep, in accordance with these
prufouod calculations; but unhappily, and
C intrary to them. I awoke about three hours
afterward.. It was midnight. I did not
require the weird accents of the cuckoo-chick
upon the stairs to tell me that. I ptisses.sed
as acrrtc a perception of that ghostly time
a jahlermei: of their diimer hour. or station
masters. of the period when the night express
is wont to firt4t fur a moment between the
trembling walls. The moon {Vag shining
through the shutterless windows, and throw
ing all kinds of suspicious shadows atito-t
the old red rooom. Red room. Why red?
The marrow in my youthful bones caught
such a chill at the bare idea, that I did not
care to _repeat the question. Two oaken
cupboards, which in my haste I had forgot
ten to examine, began to harass me with
anzieties about their contents. I slipped
cautiously out of bed. Good heavens, was
somebody holding on to my nightgown, or
—? No; it was a long one, and I had trod
den upon it with my own foot—that was all.
I approached the doors, and, without taking
the liberty of opening them, turned their
keys, which happened fortunately to be out
side of them. Comforted with this ingeni
ous device of my own, I had retired to my
couch, and was once more courting slumber.
when a tormenting thought seized hold. of
Alia,trie .11ori flay
me and roused me up again. I had forgot
ten to look under the bed. I lay awake, en
deavoring to reason with myself upon so
absurd an anxiety, but nothing came of it,
except a singing of the ears and increased
suspicion. I thought I heard respirations
from under the mattress; I heard groans; I
began to feel the mattress move under me.
"No, dash it nil!" cried I, as I sprang to
my feet and lifted the valance, "I an, not
going to be frightened to death in this man
ner, by nothing." By nothing! Oh, was
it nothing, though, that met my affrighted
gaze under that bed!
I was beneath the blankets in about a
quarter of a second afterwards, in a state
of terror that absolutely for a little time
deprived me ofsensation. My imagination,
fertile as it always had been in conjectures
of a horrible nature, had never, indeed,
come up to the reality of what I had just
seen; a robber, a ghost, the arch-enemy of
man and boy himself, any or all of these I
had been, in a measure, prepared to find in
rile red room, but a Coffin—an enormous
Coffin—large 'for the shoulders. and taper
ing somewhat delicately towards the feet;
to find an article of that description under
my bed was a shock unexpected indeed.
(here it was, however, sure enough, with a
double row of handsome gilt nails all the
way round, handsome initials over the spot
"NO ENTERTAINMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEA.,TRE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 27, ISSS.
where the face would come, and a little in
hcription, doubtless setting forth in a hand
some manlier the virtues of the deced--ed
party. The five hours which intervened be•
twecn that discovery and daylight I passed
in picturing to myself the features of the
murdered—l had not a doubt of him or her
having been murdered—and in estimating
the chances of the return of the 'nor !Firer
to the red room. No sick man ever longed
for the morning as I longed, and with the
tirbt f.tiut streaks of ihmn, I was standing,
in my scanty drapery, by tho side of my
cousin's pillow. "Richard, Richard," cried
"there's murder in the house, and they've
put the coffin under my bed in the red
room."
'•Pouh; pooh, you little foul," replied he;
"go back again; I'm the Mayor this year,
it's only Me big box which the mace is kept
Notwithstanding this constitutional weak
ness of mine, which has not much abated
with years, the supernatural has still a
wondrous charm for tae, and I snatch a
fearful joy from the tales of ghosts and
spectres. My happiest evenings—with the
most miserable nights to follow—are spent.
weekly, at a Society fur the Investigation of
Spiritual Phenomena, or, as some of the
unbelieving have disrespectfully termed it,
the Cock-and-Bull Club. We assemble
every Friday, at seven o'clock. If the po.
lice were suddenly to break in op•o. our
speculations, as we -it, thirteen in number,
looking at one another, around a table with
lighted candles, they would, I believe, pro
ceed to collar and shake us, with a view of
discovering who had swallowed the dice
No written accounts of apparitions are ad
mitted, no published records of any such
may be tefered to, and it is es se th.it
the narrators in some sort be personally tte
quainted with the mt .e of wh.vh they
speak; it is not indispensable that the indi
vidual should have seen a ghost himself—
although 'mire than one of our ,ociety b:ite
been highly favored in that way— , o that
the narratio obliqua, so popular with the
historians of a dead lan,g,ni , e, is the get eral
form amongst us, too, of our c,nunquica
tions frutu without the world.
I rarely speak much i(3 , tilf, lint listen—
s may he iiiiagined —with the vora
cious attention. The tine° meinhers of t an •
.ociety who inter••-t no• In ist ale!1(y ttoo
1S ilkinson, and Arnold. The naturo of
their• rektions is ciiniztionly as different a.
their re-Teethe characters, and for that
reason—rather than Lee:twit. or any peenlmi
wonder belonging to them—l will repeat,
in Ln ief, the three s t II •, 41 0.4 favored
us
Ile) wood, who is the son of a (lean,
posses-es, ttith the exception of the C• 111.10.
meats, all the popular attributes of that
dignimry: he is stout, and rosy 1, 1 .0ut the
gill-; takes several glasses or port during
the little slipper which concludes oar spir
itual investigations; and, by -ion, means .1r
other, it always happens that Inn• obtain ,
osse,ion of the only armicliair in the room.
There is a tentter-of-fam-ness, and a)p-crier
of :111 Y care fir effect about what he has to
say, which I love to listen to—ia bile it
makes my blood run culd—on rtec,mut of its
obvious truth.
I. ••My fAther," said he last night,
"was, as most of you are aware, before he
was made a dean, the vicar of Tredlingtom
The vicarage-house was a small one; and to ‘:
it and to residences of the like humble kind
I had been exclusively accustomed up to the:
age of fourteen years. I knee• nothing ofl
paneled oak chambers, secret staircases,
passages in the thick r , of a wall, and all
the machinery of romantic discomfort, ex
cept through books. Tredlington it. re I
had the dream which I am about to relate
—was not in the least degree allied to
lidolpho; and yet the dream I dream
there was just such a one as dear old
Mrs Radcliffe might have had herself
after a pork supper. I dreamed that some
half-an-hour before dinner, and immediately
after the bell had rung for dressing, my
cousin—a lad of the same age, who was
then stopping with me—had mischievously
lucked me up alone in the drawing-room,
and there left me. Anxious not to displease
my father by being late, and not daring to
leap out of eith •r of the windows—which
were on the first floor—l strove, in my
dream, to find sonic other mode of egress..
There were several large pictures hanging:
up on the walls—quite strange to me, but
which, as is usual in such cases, produced
no astonishment—and pushing these aside,
one after another, I found behind the last
on the east wall a flight of little stairs.
which led, to my groat joy, up into my bed-
GEM
"I told this dream to the whole breakfast
party the next morning, when this and that
solution Isere given; but although the im
pression still remained, doubtless. in my
mind, no circumstance arose for several
years to cause me to refer to it. I was a
young man Of about one-and-twenty, and at
college, when my father's elevation to the
deanery of Donnington took place. This
game cousin of mine was my fellow student,
and accompanied me, at the vacation, on
my first visit to the fine old cloistered place
which I was proud to be able to call my
future home. A little banter upon this
pardonable vanity of mine assisted I , y the
spirits of youth. brought on between u•
what is popularly termed "a scritnntage;'
and my father happening to be out just a:
the particular time of our arrival, although
it WSW nearly the dinner-hour, my oousha
playfully pushed me by the shoulders int,
the new drawing-room, and lucked the dote
behind me. At that instant the dinner bed
rang; in the nest I rocognihed completeb\
tho room of my dream, and walked to tin
last great picture which hung on the oast
ern wall, for a means of egress, as naturallj
as I should have walked to the door. Be
hind the pi;tore was a secret stair leading
into a secret chamber which had been se'
apart fur my reception, and I very much a -
n ished the servant who brought up tr)
trunks by appearing therein through a slid
ing panel. As for the secret staircase, if
any of this company will do mo the honor to
come down to Donnington, they shall loch
me into the drawing-room, even after the
first dinner-bell has rung, as erten as ever
they please."
Arnold the youngest and Latest joined of
the society, but notwithstanding—or per
haps I should say, by reason of—that cir
cumstances, he is the most enthusiastic of
us all. He told us, after Heywood had
finished, the following story in a quiet un
dertone, such s.s the brook sings in "to the
sleeping woods, all night, in the leaf:t.
month of June," and with eves that Itoked
through and through us while he spoke, as
upon soma strange uncanny sight beyond.
11. "My father was left a widower in his
first year of marriage, his wife having died
in childbirth with us twins—myself and
my brother George, whom some of you have
mistaken at times, you know, fia• ate. My
poor mother herself had been also nue of
twins. For n few months after her death,
her two sisters stayed in toy father's house
to comfort him and look afßr 1/9 children.
I was, however, soon put out to nurse, and
George only remained at home. lie slept
in tiles:nue room with his two aunts. I had
been front home about a week or so, when
Aunt Ginn, on awaking about midnight,
fined her sister out of bed, and walking
about the room. She knew Maria suffered
from 'a raging tooth,' so merely informed
her where tho laudanum was, and went to
sleep again. Next night, as the two sisters
were undressing, Sll,llll said: 'Be sure to
put die bottle so dint that you still know
where to find it, and riot run the risk of your
death of cold, ni you did la.it
'"I had ant the tootll,l,tho and
never left toy bed et all,' telt::1 :llttritt.
" "filen you t have thole it in your
Tern, for I you th• pl.til ly ns I ever
4,1 w you in illy life.' So, with mutual C.-
erimination and denial, tlisy retired to rest.
"Again Silvan was awakened, and ngitili
she vii‘v her sister pa iii lib ut the roam
•' 11.rri 1, come to Ssi t•he; •the fire
iv out, and the culd will only increase the
=
"Her sister turned a pale f.tea towards
her, with an inilescr;bably sorrowful and
touching expre-sion, bat said nothing.'
Susan, thinking, he • t' te seriously ill. %%as
about to leave the lied, hen. to her extreme
astoni-hment, the perceived 11laria fast
asleep beside tier.
"It was my dead mother, then—the very
image n sister—who she
had lisibed Upon those two nights. SLI , IIII
fainted with eTcess of fear, and did not
waken her bedfellow till after dawn, when
nothing unumal was to be observed. She
told, however, all she had seen; and Marin,
who Wag much the bolder of the two, prom
ised to keep vigil next night, upon condi
tion that my father was not to be inlbrmed
of the matter, which she knew won I dis
tress him greatly. She attributed the thing
herself to fancy and a disordered system.
That night, then, they both watched; and
when they had been in bed some time, they
heard the front door of the cottage open—
my mother had been accustomed in her
lifetime to carry, for convenience, a latch
key—and a well-known gentle footstep pass
up the stairs end go into my father's room.
Presently their own chamber door opened,
and, dressed in a white garment betwixt
bed gown and dressing gown, their dead
sister glided in. She gave them an appealing.
almost reproachfol look, and then turned
to the little cradle where her baby-boy was
sleeping, and stooped down as if to kiss it.
Once again she seemed to beseech them
dumbly, and left the roem with a slow,
noiseless trend. It was some minutes be
fore they dared to speak. Maria longed
to address the spirit, but her tongue close
to the roof of her mouth. In the morning
they asked my father whether ho had seen
any strange sight or no.
•• saw nothing unusual,' he replied; but
when they told him all. he confessed, not
without some effbrt: 'And I, too, for these
last ten days have seen her every midnight..
I hear the key in the front-door; her tread
upon the landing as of old; but her face, vs
she stands by my bed•foot, seems worn and
piteous, and I know .die has some grief she
may not tell. I have spoken to her many
times, but she does nut answer me. I know
not what to do.'
After Poino more conversation, n sadden
thought flAshed upon my father's mind:
and, saddling his horse himself, ho rude of
at full speed to the town about ten miles
old, where I had been been intrusted to a
respectable nurse. In that ',bort interval
which I bad passed away from home, h i
found me shockingly altered; half-starved.
Ind ill, and bruised. Another nurse
instantly obtained, who, Imwever„ rebind tied
it my own home with sae. Never tIVITC
was Seen by mortal eye that messenger from
the dead; the boundless love hin b had burst
the barer of death itself—the affection of
t mother for her child—was never tried so
erribly again."
It is our custom to (nate upon. and an
dyse every statement; those only which
;an stand a good deal of sifting are thought
worthy to be enrolled in the tecor.ls of II e
society, and unless to concern ourselves in
such investigations at all is a proof of gill
we cannot certainly Us said to he
.asily satisfied. Wilkinson cross-examined
Arnold un this story of his with his usual
rough acuteness, but without ut all shak
ing his evidence; it was impossible for any
one who had heard the story to suppose
that the narrator himself was otherwise
than in earnest. There is a certain mystery
an! stipornatore about Wilkinson himself
in our eyes, from the fact of his being a
lrysalter—the attribute of such a charac
ter being utterly unknown to and unmange
able by us—but othciaii-e he is very far
lion being an appropi bite vehicle for a
spiritual narration; it is marred the more
by the circumstance of his always having n
cigar between hi+ cob, the end of which
always' \rabbles against his tongue, and
clips his English. The somewhat t
anatmer of his relating the following occur
rence will, it is likely detract from the
vrailembluncc; bet that it really did Imp
pen as described, I out well assured.
"I have an elder sister who is mar
ried to a country gentleman in Sossex.—
She has been his wife thi.,3 twenty year,.
and has an abundance of einidi-eri. The
first governess of these child' en was a Mis-
Beauvais, of Dunkirk. She era- of a reservril
and taciturn disposition, and alihough pc:-
forming all her duties admirably, was rather
respected by her pupil, than beloved, She
never looked quite like other people, and
had an old fashioned manner of dres-imr.
In particular, she wore her :krises %cry
large at the shoulders—pillowed sleeves, as
I think they were then called. I hare seen
her many times. and remember her perfectly
well: but one sight of her would hose been
sufficient for recollection. She was a very
remarkable, a most extraordinary looking
person —s ery, indeed. (And here tine dry
-alter took sin El profu-ely, as his custoin is
when more than usually pleonastic.) She
had on ancient father v. ho canoe every Christ
mas to take her home to Dunkirk for her
few weeks' holiday—a wonderful French
man, quite silent and all puckered about the
lips like an umbrella. In my nieces' old
drawing books n• are several pretty so
ber nail 21CL/rate likenesses of him, which
ill resemble earleatm es. Perhaps when
they get away from the English folks, and
the pert and fills were alone together, they
shed some natural tears; but their behavior,
as it seemed to me, was far from being af
fectionate. 1 happened to be 1 , . S , ItOCX
WliCat Jlunsieur Beauvais last came for his
(laughter. It was in especially bitter
winter twenty years ago, and that writs it
e,,ldeSt. day. The earth was scrapped round
in its white shroud very thickly, but no
snow was foiling. Ile had brought a. little
open cat rioge with hint from the neighbor
in r town, because it ran lighter user the
choked roads than a close one would have
done. There was, thercfl(re, but little:own
fur Miss Beaus ai,'s luggage.
"She had been a:twist:moil on these jour
neys to tithe all her possessions away with
her, and she was evidently much distressed
on this occasion nit having to leave s into of
thein behind. Two large black boxes of
hers were left; locked and well corded.—
'You will be store to keep them safely mad
ame,' she said to my -1- or; but she seemed
to say it with a sigh of suspicion.
"We watched the two stiir figures drive
slowly along the kalless avenue and over
the white hilbtop beyond. 'A strange pair,'
we remarked, and soon forgot them both, as
governesses raid governesses' flai i e r s are
apt to be forgotten. Ott the two black boxes
was written, in that infinitesimally small
hand-writing of her's, that it was drientla
to open them under any pretext. It was
evident that the poor lady mistrusted the
honesty of perfidious Albion.
"Wo read goon afterwards, in the news
paper—as soon that is as the newspaper of
That time and in such snowy days, could
reach us—that the Dunkirk sailing paoket,
in which we knew they had intended to
take passage, was lost with every soul on
board. Nevertheless, in hone that some
thing might have deranged their plans, we
made every effirt to ascertain tilt ir fate.—
Repeated letters to the continent ob'ained
no answer. and indeed Miss Beauvais had
often affirmed that she had no friend upon
earth except her father. mwcover, the
alert: in the packet.oflice described the two
singular persons, I.; ho had raid fa- berths
in tho doomed ship, with an accuracy tint
left no room for doubt. Years rolled away
--ten, fifteen, twenty years (the diy.alter
here took. at least half an cuuco more shaft .
than he could conveniently carry), and their
deaths became a certainty. Tho few small
bills which Miss Beauvais left behind her,
hail long been settled by my si s ter; but
-hero was one somewhat larger one which
still continued undischarged—a. milliner's.
Cite governess' pupils grew up and had
4overness's fur their own children; the ser
vants of the house had departed or died:
lucre was no one about the place he+ides
•ny sister and her husband who remembered
, •'or Mi•s 'Beauvais, or knew whose those
deck hose+ were thlt were one 117 , 11
he other, put away in the old lumber closet
ip Ptairs."
••flay I be allowel" ohnerceal the dry
salter ut this point, "to deviate front the
81,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; $2,00 IF NOT IN ADVANCE.
s triety's rules F o far as to read a portion
my sister's letter relating to this matter
and roceited but yosterdly moraine?"
Leave hating I , een granted lty 'sirens
acclamation, he read as follon,:
"Wc drove to Lnglib,rmigh I: =t
to Iliaa Davies' the milliner, ami
making my purchases, she ob.erred
•By the by, madam, can there sti'l no•
hope of poor Miss Beauvais being :dive, 0
or tno=t I consider those few pounds siii
ewes me to be a Lad debt?'
"I was distressed at having put off On
matter so long, and paid her at once, tlseiv
mg that I would have the btu:es npaWN
which have been left with us these twcut:
years, to see whether their contends wen
worth anything. On our wzy, I con
niunicated this intent:on to rtedorid,
appro‘ed:of it. There was no ccrl ant in tit.
pony catriage to olerhear us; .:n1 cc:-
to.in that neither cf us mentit - ucd the nt-ut ,
sult , et i uently. We sat do , ' n to ddanco
within a half an hour arter
In the middle of it, and dorill,ic .1 cortver , t
lion about the new gre..todwlse, Ltz,•y—ti
maid who eame to me laQt autumn, if :vau.
remeuther—rushed into the dinio! - ;-rootto
quite v.hlte, and trendinn;
She could not Speak at 11 for terror; i n :
I sent rrederid and tile man-servant out tdl
tha room, and contr . .% ed to OOf
" have seen such a stran:te
trn,' she hi,perea; she lice
::010, soli-. I warmer I hnd str& - ',.;tl/ t.
4et away front thc,.
Wliat is slit: liLL,?' I t,k,:l as cluivtl
as I e,)(11,1.
' 'Like nobody I eterse.v: in my li n, .
ma ' ain—with hard grey eyes the
atitl in the strangest (Ire s-; very :arr ., :
pulled oat abave the sleet She
the t,hl bhiek boxes that are
up in the corner, N% la/ the foreign dire:;ti•.m'
upon tilem.'
"I tried to quiet the ;rl, who Logan t'
soh afre-h, and to convince her that it rip
all fancy; and f iederiek .p.hc to her ai-o.
She was not, however, to he shaken in the
least, and I firmly believe she has seen Mi--
Lleauvais. Trederie has proini , ed me, upon
hi , honor, that so lung as I live those boxes
shall never Lo opened."
'Tut I have not promised," :111 , 1e1 the
dry , altee in coneln , ion, I ein
down to-rnorl - ew in F.. 7 11-Is.c% to sae ‘.l
he done."
ror my part I sheull 11Ite e'ctremely ti,
see what is in those h Be., but net enle , c the
n:a I,y da31;::,! t, aud at
smnebotly
Something on my I.S.:nd
Dark masses of my threatcoirg f flow
creatures, el , taketl and cowl Ltd; ellocti a•
eqnipped with noiseless golo , d,es and
daggers diminishing to a point, wherefitan
drips a gout of gore; nn executioner, '0 itlru
half mask and a chopper, w ith its edge
turned towards me; %ague ntol unhnown
shapes following, with a deadly unsweas utg
purpose. whithersoeaer I take my ft i;;locii
ed way; a thoustutd staaogers with uplifattl
j tight hand o, exclaiming together, al tisti
cally, and in the pause of slow music: "We
swear, see swear," and doing it;
dozen intimate friends striking, at my breast
with a curious and varied collection of v-ea
ports, from nn overwhelming sense it duty.
and averting their looks for pity's sake;
secret cc Javes„,settio g down my name in
Mood, with a variety of other dismal pic
tures selected from the haunted chaml ers
of imagination, had been presented to the
in dreams for ninths. I was rendered
miserable through having been tanlo n free
mason, with the terror of varying aboot
with trio so tremendous a secret. I felt that
I was fated to be the Inthappy wretch mho
should betray that which had been held
saered by multitudes for more than a thou
sand years. Not was this idea tgethor
without grounds; for to en great a pitch of
nervousness had I orris ed that I was eon
tinually whispering the matter confiden
tially to myself, and then, in the belict that
1 had spoken alud, looking horror sttieken
around me; or, not seldom, I would write it
down upon slips of paper; which I after
wards took care to tear up sztuill, or put
them into the fire, or devoutc.i them.
Once, however, when engaged in this
practice, a high wind, coming io at t::e
open window, scattered these int creftil , g
disclosures in every (lit ertion, and drove
me as nearly mad as a sane man could go.
There was as many as twenty distinct rena
lations of the most mysterious fact in the
world's history thus set `lying over space,
an that any ono might run and read them.
Nineteen of the-c 1 recovered by means cd
almost superhuman exertions. To a were
reclaimed at the peril of life and limb from
n neighbor's wail with ch,ra ., x at
the top of it; three of them had 1,-(1-ed in a
very lofty tapering tree, whkh prarti•aily j
demonstrated the dreaded fact of env qy!.i!-;
line leaves becoming poplar; e were ear
tied into tho river, and had to It: , re-emtd
by a heat; seven had c'n whir:ol Mt r rite
kennel of a proverbially savago which.
hoverer, seas so impressed hy toy cages
haste and furious vehemence, that he vac:
:fed his quarters at the first sunumtrs, au
fled, how ling, to the utmost extent of his
chain. Otto was brought dowo ft- tin a ohim
acv pit by a very small '.weep. who, Ito at
for too a n d Cur himself, prof cd to t.ty bLI:—
Lc:ion that Le had newer been taught
to read; ono 1 found 1::e kitten a: l lee
with in the garden, w Lich PreseuliY
put to death accordingly, without opt,
[WHOLE NUMBER., 1,47 s
aft.-: the manner of the tribunal of
i`Te>tphalia; tric could 2wzcliere, Le
Tnere emne a here, patent
u the tir,t pater-hy, 8:1 et;pl:cit btAution of
!i0 V.Tr .tny on
,icunar an , i 1;e:: T:Lin
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he Illy,: stol: , e::::ite,l we to fre:::..y.
went :11.0.ut dt.ni.w.nri g - of rny
11,e.: 11.v1 seca piece
raper in the
\Vita: pa:icr? Wi:of on it?" Inquircd
\flint was on :t queit:un not
o . 1).3 an:-we:elNeyy readily. I did not n'o
vnnd ';urty and
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heti 1,1-.\ cc::
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t‘i ~, 1:.1 t, ,•f c,,urse,
c t," I,ct I t.ll Mtn of
1 .1 AV:I9 Loniinually corit•utn-
tht. •lII:Cl•iV
ii . :^ nm ri., - , 11,111:;-, it
ortr , rl.r.sing listened
patiently ills sad recital—he vas u. sery
%% Invao iag 2, uan , ,; man, only rather
He—"l have a pl.in whieb, 1 think, \VIII
L , llofit. pet: 3inir
thr wh.ilo thing is noti.c , o—l nra ready to
e,iirne a treele.;:en znysein f 7 2.-a, you see,
v.lll Lave a t,nfi,lant--al,cin-r. in whcin
v.-)u :nay v•orr tr 11'e will re-
t 1:o11,7 yr s'. cticry day
, , ~, the. or up
thy Bru=c. tI r)rd,
th. , y I)usl:,ess—nad.
I'p-iv. v.(' 11 c.! :11, nt a.i, f.e.,:ret, if
rt • nt:l r , 2!icre T"l.lr l'Illia."
Sr.:.. att.: , a tel 1 ale and
re.:;,:1 , :•.. ni
lent- - ; wit!. the tls iu c::r ledgrt fur
s r!., ut (f
J
n.y f,r getting it.
do:10, 11.11:1 I.l.•Wri to my 11. , uPe from.
the Treoe,:ing I:is in
5:704:z7,11. I !I'll bccn I—cl,il J.,nes moro
t!lan ny c f '.cndin4 Limn littl.o
Innnecu!:enlie and I was
tilorerore as we wero
vitt; t aflcr cr cur wine,
he ieque,,e.l of me :he tQmporary lean of
.7:1
ttS fl:CrO 1 . 7114 amount
it'irea , ly between I nr , red mi an amend
ment that the Kim Fhimil ba cleerex-c..1 by
an , half, to which. after a slight discussion,
my frienii acee , ied, turd retitel to rest ap
arently sath•fiel with a fire pound note of
mine in his Inn-Fo.
We hi
!)ca:ei morn, for tho
in a d•wl,:c-
eanveniel. , :e of co:Tel,ing urc.n ray al! en
ter,:c, and lva n<leep while
talking of It. I wkis nvcal.ene.l in the rnwrn
iag by the ontr,Loce into the room of my
compani,n,
d..cssed and with hat
on. as ti. , 17,1 t hn•l teen :sat far an early
••IVh^, I reNc7 !:cart :cnn Ket nr," said
"I e
ret , t:vd J - Lnie. , in a s ,, lernn and
unn•uil "rcr:•, :cry suundly. And
vq: drenr 1. 1
y , it, ray bol." cried I, chuck
-.v:1!; how con B ucb
woull Le :Li' over; "I just did
17,31 ill clrr.el of the—tiro secret, did
, I 1
"Of cure I dil." sail I; "I always du
Irentn of tho Facret."
1," jor..c?, cvlth an un
tlea,ant dryne-i in lii3 rnnn:lcr; "arid do
tu :.I‘‘ !
1 f.:, Al If Aj u, , icct , 11 rrater
:•1 b:en I;Am-el ILo LApo of my
c,
Nce we-e 1 .t:t t7 , r it Ica , : a :ni-ute,
tl,en qu..tly remarked--"I thiLlc
yon 4 1 - %col. fire peutml
a tcznaz. do 3-.12 kaou!"
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