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A Dreadful Story
CEO
=III
"Bless me!" cried an elderly- gentleman
in a railway carriage on the Great North
ern line, as he Ipoked np from the perusal
of the Globe just purchased at King's Cross
station; "bless me, so they've found out the
great Waterloo Bridge Mystery at last!"
"Indeed!" ejaculated a quiet-looking, wel
dressed individual, seated opposite to the
speaker. "As that, sir, happens to be a
matter in whiah I have always been speci
ally, not to say personally interested, will
you favor me with the details?"
"Certainly, sir,. with much pleasure;"
and the old gentleman, with due emphasis,
read aloud a glorious canard of an imagina,
tire "penny-a-liner," touching an old Irish
apple-woman, who was reported to have
been overheard confessing her complicity i n
that dire marvel of modern crime.
"Thank you, sir," returned the quiet
man. "I happen, however, to be in-a posi
tion to prove that story to be an utter fabri
cation, R 3 will probably be know to the
world before many days. In the first
place—"
"Now, my good sir, pray don't talk of
that matter now. It is really very unfortu
nate, besides being, as one may say, a
strange coincidence, that this subject' should
turn up—just at this time too. Pray don't.
Let it drop for the present." These words
proceeded from a sturdy individual seated
next to tho quiet gentleman. At a . first
glance, one would have set him down as a
detective policeman.
"I cannot refrain from speaking of it.—
The misery of that secret—innocent deposi
tary of it as I may be—has weighed upon
me already far too long."
His fellow pas:.engers, all sate the sturdy
min, started: as well they might. The
(pia gentleman proceeded to take advan
t v2;‹ , , i the interest this awakened—
" Yes, unhapiiy indeed, that secret is, and
alw•ty-1 • 10! . ^ to me. Would it
"Piny, sir." the old gentleman, lay
ing ,wit the G:ube nn lIIS knees, ' , do y , a
really mean to tell 1./9 that you can and
mice this horrible mystery?"
"I ran anti mill."'
The sturdy me» resigned himself vvitl,
ga , p, and foldea his artn. , , the very imper.
sonation of li.olvssnesg. The quiet gentle-
man proceeded:
"tl - ell, in the first place, to relieve all
anxiety, I tell you that no murder has been
committed; secondly, that the unfortunate
individual whose bones were discovered
never breathed: thirdly, that be died and
two subsequently dissected by his own net:
and fourthly, that he was—myself. You
may probably teceive my statements with
some slight degree—l will not say of in
credulty, but with just a shade of doubt.—
Such, nevertheless, arc the facts ai I am
a. out to explain."
The elderly gentleatiin rubbed his nose
with a puzzled air. The quiet gentleman's
manner .ras so calm, and sa full of confi
dence, as in itself' to assist conviction. So
the old gentleman replied, that, without iu
the slightest way wishing to impugn the
veracity of any mortal whatever, either in a
bag or out of a bag, he thought it just pos
sible that sonic little error had led the quiet
gentleman into a mere turn of expression
not altogether correct in a strict logical
sense.
The quiet gentleman smiled, and proceeded
--"The case is in Iced a strange one; and
its solution is no less strange than its mys
tery. The fact is, that fur many years I
hare suffered under a most extraordinary
affliction. I have been troubled with a
superfluous body:"
",A—a—ichat?" exclaimed the listners in
amaze,
"I repeat, a superfluous body. I need not
argue on the possibility of such a calamity,
having experienced it. Unnatural growthq,
which I have been led to study, have been
common, to some extent, in all ages anti
climes. From the wart on the schoolboy's
thumb to the horn which sprouted from the
Frenchwoman's forehead, we ace continual
instances of the eccentricity of nature.—
Think of the Siamese twins. 'I heir case, or
rather his, was similar mine. But, instead
of simply a superfluous body, he—for he was
actually only one—had both body and mind
in duplicate. True—they were conjoined.
I was separate. Yet, what was our first
mother but a seozrate. and redundant growth
from the rib of Adam? But to my story:
"My f.tther died soon after my birth.—
My mother, poor woman, broken more with
sorrow than years, died on my thirty-fifth
birthdr.y. Her last gift to me was the key
of an old armoire, or tall closet. A slip
of parchment attached to : the key informed
me that 4 was not to use it till after her
funs:rod. She was then lying speechless.
After the appointed time I hastened to the
armoire, and there, to my horror, I found—
myself l A horrid figure, dressed in a cheap
slop suit, was there in an erect .cesition,
with h's life like eyes horribly fised on me
I recognised my own pale cheeks, my fair
moustazho which I then wore, my peaked
beard, my curling hair with a siugle gray
streak, this very distortion of my left little
finger. I stood awhile in speechless terror.
At length I toadied the Thing's hand. I:
lt-as deadly cold. I laid my hand on its
heart. Thom was no pulsation. The oh
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ject could not stand, I found, without sup
port. It did not breathe , . It showed no
lite but in those horrid eyes, which were
always open, and fixed enly on me. I next
perceived, lying at the feet of this strange
Alter Ego, this counterfeit Me, a letter ad
dressed to myself. It was from my mother,
and briefly narrated her trials and suffer
ings endured in consequence of this fright
fill monster—how silent and nerveless it had
grown with my growth, always keeping its
oyes turned to the point where I happened
to he, unconscious of its existence—how the
secret had hitherto been rigidly concealed
from every eye and ear, in the hope either
that my life would end before its revelation
should be necessary, or that the h rrid
Thing should perish and decay—tha fit
ever became necessary that I should learn
the secret, that I should consider whether
it should be avnwed, or whether means
should be taken for the destruction of the
Object. I need not tell of the days
~a nd
weeks of agony I endured while retaining
this secret, and debating in my own mind
as to the course to pursue. At length I de.
cided. I called in Dr. Meeraeker, the emi
nent physician; also, Mr. Phibbs, the
scarcely less eminent surgeon. I discharged
every servant except my mother's aged and
faithful housekeeper. And these three, by
prayers and urgent entreaties, I persuaded,
nay almost compelle I, to take a fearful oath
of secrecy. The terms allowed no loophole
of escape. Under every circumstance this
secret was to ho kept inviolate. On this
oath being administered, I gave them my
confidence:and introduced to their view dila
ghastly monster.
"We held a long consultation. The doc
tors and I. They both agreed that it was
no human Thing, and that its destruction
would be lawful—that that scintilla of vi
tality which was exhibited in the constant
glare of its eyes on me, could not strictly
be regarded as no evidence of natural life
—that, in short, this horror ought to be cut
off, by surgery, like any other excrescence.
I requested them to perform the operation
at once; hat they informed me that the ease
was so peculiar that I mast give them time
for deliheration. During; the consultation
the Thior, kept its eyes still, as ever, fixed
ESE=
"I v ' no 1 urger: 'Fiend, mon
,t- r, t•or,e, ‘‘r h‘t you may be;' f shrieked,
•thi , mlst mat' I snatehed a knife from
Mr. Pir ibbs' ease., and. sr ringiog U pun tae
tiAure, struck at .t wildly till ray arm wear
ied; and then a tin and again stabbed it
through tie breast where the heart ought
to have been, but was not. The two doe
tors stood aghast at my fury, and the house
keeper sunk into a swoon. The blows were
effective, for the monster's hideous eyes be
gan slowly to be overspread with a film.—
There was no struggle, no sound; but those
glazed eye-balls, when I unwed, followed
me now ne more.
"It was then I found that the difficulty
had, in tact, only 'commenced. The two
doctors could give no certificate as to death
—firstly, becaus? the Thing bad no nor c;
secondly, because its dissolution was not
natural; and thirdly, because It was not hu
man. Moreover, even dispensing with nll
these, a burial must inevitably have exposed
the affair, in which event all human kind
would look upon me as a being scarcely less
monstrous than that wkich I had destroyed.
The doctors left me in my perplexity. The
fearful It must be concealed; and after the
doctor's departure dismembered it and
placed it in pickle, intending to remove it
piecemeal. My housekeeper knew of my
outgoings day after day—now ". with the
head, now with a hand or foot, dropping
one into a lime-pit, another into the sea from
Ramsgate packet. Poor wniumem.: The
secret weighed heavily upon her. Worried
by continual agitation—dreading lest every
shock should be the prelude to the -entrance
of a constable, she, one night, precipitated
matters by the disposal of the residue at the
bridge, in the way everybody knows.
"When, after the lapse of time, my mind
became capable of calm reflection, I began
to see how small had actually been may crime,
if any. The public agitation was still con
tinuing, and I therefore determined, at all
risks, to declare the truth. But I spoke in
vain. In vain I wrote to inspectors of po
lice or to newspaper editors. They treated
my nsseverations with contemptuous neglect.
I appealed to Dr. Meer:Leiter and Mr. Phibbs,
but they, either dreading the connexion of
their names with the affair, or in strict re
gardance of their oath, absolutely denied to
my very face, all knowledge of the matter.
My housekeeper, who left me the day after
the disposal of the remains, was evidently
in league with them in their denial. The
doctors, accompanied by the housekeeper,
called upon me only yesterday. They in
troduced this gentleman" (the sturdy man),
"and in his presence, at my urgent repuest,
they admitted, or at leastceased to deny the
facts. Nay, more: they furnished me,
through him, with me letter of introduction to
a physician who, they tell me, cam easily
prove my case not so exceptional as it had
appeared at first. 1 hear that he has arida.
his charge several cases somewhat analo
goes to mine.. I go to discover them, and
then, in the face of all the world, to disclose,
irrefutably, the true solution of the fearful
mystery. I feel it can no longer be kept a
secret. The effort to keep it so has pro
duced upon my mind such an effect that
already the results are—"
vColonel Hatch! Colonel liateh!" shouted
the guard, us the tmin at this inatant stop-
ped. The sturdy man took the quiet gentle
-4 morn's arm as they both alighted, wishing
their fellow-travellers hastily good morning.
"Ah! poor soul!" ejaculated the elderly
I passenger, with a deep sigh, "there's the
1 1 Lunatic Asylum. lle will indeed find there
a good many afflicted with his disorder.—
Bodies beside themselves:" And thus ends
—a Dreadful Story.
How Sir Philip Sydney Died
Motley's "United Netherlands" affords a
graphic account of the chivalric death of;
Sir Philip Sydney, which we do not remem
ber, in the various relations we • have met
with, to have seen related with any approach
to the same force and distinctness. The
action, it will be remembered, was in inter.
cepting a convoy of provisions sent by the
Spaniards to the relief of Zutphen, which
was besieged by the Dutch and English.—
The affair on the part of the young English
Knight was an anticipation of the courage
and bravado of the famous cherge of 600 at
lialaklava. Sidney, it will be seen, owed
his death to a piece of trancendental chival
ric refinement:
It was 0 o'clock of a chill autumn morn
ing, October 2, 1588. It was time fur day
to break, but the fig was so thick that a
man at the distance of five yards was quite
invisible. The creaking of wagon wheels
and the measured tramp of soldiers soon
became faintly audible, however, to Sir An
Norris and his fi. e hundred, as they sat
there in the mist. Presently came galloping
forward in hot baste those nobles and gen
tlemen, with their esquires, fifty men in all
—Sidney, Willoughby, and the rest—whom
Leicester had no longer been able to re
strain from taking part in the adventure.
A force of infantry, the am.unt of which
cannot be satibfactority ascertained, had
been ordered by the Earl to cross the bridge
at a later moment. Sidney's cornet of
horse was then in Deventer, to which place
it had been sent in order to assist in quell
ing an anticipated revolt, so that lie came,
like most of his co npanions, as a private
soldier and knight•errant.
The arrival of the expected convoy was
soon more distinctly heard, but no scouts or
outposts had been stationed to give timely
notice of the enemy's movements. Suddenly
the fog, which had shrouded the scene so
closely, rolled away like a curtain, and in
the full light of an October morning the
Englishmen found themselves face to face
with a compact body of more titan three
thousUnd men. The Marquis del Paste rude
at the head of the force, surrounded by a
band of arquebus men. The cavalry, tinder
, the famon. Epi rote Chief, George C're‘ , eia,
Hanoi ht.l Gonzango, licntivogtio, Seen,
Conti, and oth r distinguished commanders,
followed; the columns of pikemen and MU
keteers lined the hedge-rows on both sides
I the causeway; while between them the long
train of wagons came slowly along under
their protwtion. The whole force had got
lin motion after having sent notice of their
arrival to Verdugo, who, with one or two
thousand men, was memod to sally forth
almost immediately from the city gate.
There was but brief time for del.beration.
Notwithstanding the tremendous odds, there
was no thought of retreat. Black Norris
called to Sir William Stanley, with whom
he had been at variance so lately, nt Ries
burg.
"There has been ill blood between us,"
he said. "Let us 140 friends together this
day, and die, side by side, if need be, in her
Majesty'scause."
"It you see me not serre my Prince with
faithful courage now," replied Stanley. "ac
count me forever a coward. Living or dy
ing. I will stand or lie by you in friendship."
As they were speaking these words, the
young Earl of Essex, General of the horse,
cried to his handful of troops:
"Follow m:, good fellows, for the honor
of England and of England's Queen:"
As he spoke he dashed, lance in rest, upon
the enemy's cavalry, overthrew the foremost
man, horse and rider, shivered hie own
spear to splinters, and then, swinging his
curtel axe, rode merrily forward. Ills
whole little troop, compact as an arrow
head, flew with an irresistible shock against
the opposing columns, pierced clear through
them, and scattered them in all directions.
At the very first charge one hundred Eng
lish horsemen drove the Spanish and Alba
nian cavalry back upon the musketeers
and pikemen. Wheeling with rapidity,
they retired before a vollley of musket shot,
by which many horses and a few riders
were killed, and then formed again to renew
the attack. Sir Philip Sidney, on coming
to the Geld, having met Sir William Pelham,
the veteran Lord Marshal, lightly armed,
had with chivalrous extravagance thrOwn
off his own cuishes, and now rode to the
battle with no armor but his cuirass. At
the second charge his horse was shot under
him, but, mounting another, ho was seen
everywhere in the thick of the fight, behav
ing himself with a gallantry which extorted
admiration even from the enemy.
For the battle was a series of personal
encounters in which high officers were doing
the work of private soldiers. Lord North
who bad bean lying "bed rid" with .a min
ket shot in the log, bad got himself pot on
horseback, anti "with one hoot on and one
boot off," bore himself "most lustily"
through t'ae whole affair. "I desire that
her Majesty may know," ho said, "that I
jive but to serve her. A bettor barony than
I have could not hire the Lord North to live
on meaner terms " Sir William Russel
laid about him with his curtel-axe to such
purpose that the Spaniards pronounced him
a devil and not a man. "Whereever,"ottid
an eye witness, "he saw five or six of the
enemy together, thither would he; and his
hard knocks soon separated their friend.
ship." Lord. Willoughby encountered
George Crescia, General of the famed Alba
nian cavalry, unhorsed him at the first
shock, and rolled 'him into the ditch. "I
yield me thy prisoner," called out the Epi
rote in French, "for thou art a preux cheva
lier:" while Willoughby, trusting to his
captive's aford, galloped onward, and with
him the rest of the little troop, till they
seemed swallowed up by the superior num
bers of the enemy. His horse was shot un
der him, his bases were torn from his legs,
and he was nearly taken a prisoner, but
fought his way back with incredible strength
and good fortune. Sir William Stanley's
horse had seven bullets in him, but bare his
rider unhurt to the end of the battle. Lei
cester declared Sir William and "old Heade"
to be "worth their weight in peer]."
Hannibal Gonzaga, leader of the Spanish
cavalry, fell mortally wounded. The Mar
-1 quis del Vasto, commander of the expedi
tine), nearly met the same fate. An Eng
lishman was just cleaving his head with a
battle axe, when a Spaniard transfixed the
'soldier with his pike. The most obstinate
struggle took place about the train of wag
ons. The teamsters had fled in the begin
ning of the action, Lot the English and
I Spanish soldiers, struggling with the horses,
and pulling them forward and backward,
tried in vain to get exclusive possession of
I the convoy Which was the cause of the ;Le
-1 lion. The carts at last forced their way
slowly nearer and nearer to the town, while
the combat still went on warm as ever, be
tween Ow hostile squadrons. The action
lasted an hour and a half, and again and
again the Spanish horsemen wavered and
broke before the handful of English, and
fell back upon their musketeers. Sir Philip
Sidney, in the last charge, rode quite
throngh the enemy's ranks till he came
upon their 'entrenchments, when a musket
hall from the camp struck him upon the
thigh, three inches above the knee. Al
though desperately wounded in a part which
should have been protected by the cnishes
which he had thrown aside, he was not in
clined to leave the field; but his own horse
had been shot under him at the beginning
of the action, and the one upon which he
was now mounted became too restive for
him, thus crippled to control. He turned
reluctantly away, and rode a mile and a
half back to the entrenchments, suffering
! extreme pain, for his leg NV.IS dreadfully
shattered. As he passed along the edge of
the batt'e field, his attendants brought hint
a bottle of water to quench his raging thirst.
I At that moment a wounded English soldier,
who had eaten his last at the same feast,?'
looked up wistfully in his face, when Sidney
I instantly handed him the flask, exclaiming,
"Thy necessity is even' greater than mine "
He then pledged his dying comrade in
draught, and was soon afterwards met by
his uncle. "Oh, Philip," cried Ldieester, in
despair. "1 ant truly grieved to see thee in
this plight." But Sidney comforted him
with manful words, and assured hint that
death was sweet in the cause of his geeen
' and country. Sir William Itussell, too, all
bloodstained front the fight, threw his arms
around his friend, wept like a child, and
kissing his hand exclaimed. ' 0:1! noble S:r
Philip, never did man attain hurt an honor
ably or serve so valiantly RS yon." Sir
%Villiam Pelham declared "that. Sidney's
noble courage in the face of our eneru;as
had won him a name of continuingli;nur."
The Lady of Shalott
Thnngh many thun4andi have admired
the fine heroic rhythm, quaint imagery, and
delicate mystification of Tennysnn's poem,
"The Lady of Sltalott," few, comparatively
speaking, aro familiar with the striking
legend on which it is founded:
, •lln either ride the vier he
Lanz field., of !Meer tint of rie•
hat clothe the world and nice, the •I.t;
And throu.th the field+ the streatn
Tommy towered Cameto•;
A ad up and dawit the people gu.
(fazing where the blow
'Lomat an Woad then• below—
The istas.d of Shuloti.,
A few days ago we chancel upon a vol•
ume containing this romantic legend, among
other reminifcences of "The Age of Chiv
alry," and believe that we shall gratify a
majority of our readers by copying it here
in full:
I=
King Arthur proclaimed a solemn tour
nament to be held at Winchester. The
king, not less impatient than his knights fur
this festival, set off some days before to
superintend the preparations, leaving the
queen, with her court at Camelot. Sir
Launcelot, under pretence of indisposition,
remained behind also. Ilia intention was
to attend the tournament in disTuise; and,
having communicated his project to Coe
never, he mounted his horse, set off without
any attendant, and, counterfeiting the
feebleness of age, took the most unfrequent
ed road to Winchester, and passed, untie
ticed, as an old knight who w'as going to be
a spectator of the sports.
Even Arthur and Sir Gawain, who hap
pened to behold him from the windows of a
castle under which be passed, where dupes
of his disguise. But an accident betrayed
bim.. Ilie ; horse happened to stumble, end
the hero forgetting for a moment his as
sumed character, recovered , the animal with
a atrength and agility so peculiar to him•
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self. that they instantly recognized the
inimitable Launcelot. They suffered him, '
however, to proceed on his journey without
interruption, convinced that his extraordi
nary feats of arms must discover him at the
approaching festival.
In the evening, Launcelot was magnifi
cently entertnined'as a stranger knight at
the neighboring Castle of Shalott The lord
of this castle had a daughter oT exquisite
beauty, and two sons lately received into
the order of the knig'Ahoutl, one of whom
was at the time ill in bed, and thereby pre
vented from attending the tournament, fur
which both brothers had long made prepa
rations. Launcelot offered to attend the
other it'll° were permitted to borrow the arm
or of the invalid; and the Lord of Shalott,with
out knowing the nameof hiprguest—being sat
isfied from his appearance that his son could
not have a better companion-in-arms—most
thankfully accepted the offer. In the mean
time, the young lady, who had leen much
struck by the first appearance of the stran
ger-knight, continued to survey him with in
creased attention, and, before the conelush,n
of supper, became so deeply enamored f
him, that, after frequent changes of color,
and other symptoms which Sir Launcelot
could not possibly mistake, she was obliged
to retire to her chamber, and seek relief in
tears. Sir Launcelot hastened to convey to
her, by means of her brother, the informa
-1 tion tat his heart was already disposed of,
but that it would be his pride and pleasure
to act as her knight at the approaching
1 tournament. The lady. obliged to be satis
fied with that courtesy, presented him her
scarf, to be worn at the tournament.
Launcelot set oil in the morning with the
young knight, who, on their approaching
Winchester, carried him to the castle of a
lady, sister to the Lord of Shalutt, by whom
they were hospitably entertained.
The nest day they put on their armor,
which was perfectly plain, and without any
device, as was usual to youths during the
first year of knighthood, their shields being
only painted red, as some color was neces
sary to enable them to be recognised by
their attendants. Launeelot wore on his
crest the scarf of the Lady of Shalett, and,
thus equipped, proceeded to.the tournament,
where the knights were divided into two com
panies, the one commanded by King Ar
thur, the other by Sir GaeMout. Ilaviog
surveyed the combat fur a short time from
without the lists, and observed that Sir
Calehaut's party began to give way, they
joined the press and attacked the royal
knights, the young man choosing such ad
versaric.4 as were suited to his strength,
while his companion selected the principal
champions of the Round Table, and succes•
sively overthrew Gawain, &Mort, and Lionel,
The astonishment of the spectators was ex
treme, for it was thought that no one but
Launcelot could possess such invincible
power; yet the favor on his crest seemed to
preclude the possibility of his being thus
disguised, fur Launcelot had never been
known to wear the ha lge of any but his
sovereign lady.
At length Sir [lector, Launcelot's brother,
engaged him, and, after a dreadful combat,
wounded him dangerowdy in the head, but
W;1.9 himself completely stunned by a blow
on the helmet, and felled to the ground;
after which the, concieror rode off at full
speed, Monde I by his young companion.
They returned to the raitle of Shahitt,
where Sir Glance lot was attended with the
greatest care by the good awl, by his two
sous, and, above all, by his fair daughter,
whose medical skill probably much hastened
the period of his recovery. His health was
almost restored, when Sir Hector, Sir /30-
11,,n, and S;r Lionel, who, after the return
of the court to Camelot, had undertaken the
quest of their relation, discovered him walk
ing on the walls of the castle. Their meet-
ing was iery joyful; they passed three days
in the castle amidst constant festivities, and
bantered each other on the events of tho
tournament. fauncelot, though he began
by vowing vengeance against the author of
his wound, yet ended by declaring that he
felt rewarded far the pain by the pride he
ook in witnessing his brother's extraordi
nary prowess. Ile then dismissed them
with a message to the queen, promising to
follow immediately— T it being necessary that
he should first take a firma] leave of his
kind hosts, as well as of the fair maid of
Shalutt.
The young lady, after vainly attempting
to detain him by her tears and solicitations,
I saw him depart without letiving her any
ground for hope.
Itwas early summer when the tournament
took place; but some months ,had passed
since Launcelot's departure, and winter was
now near hand. The health and strength
of the Lady of Shalott had gradually sunk;
and she felt that she could not live apart
from the object of her affections.' She left
the castle, and, descending to the river's
brink, placed herself in a boat, which she
loosed from its moorings, and suffered to
bear her down the current toward Camelot.
One morning as Arthur and Sir Lionel
looked from the window of the tower, the
walls of which were washed by the river,
they descried a boat, richly ornamented, ;
and covered with an awning of cloth and gold,
which appeared to bo floating down the
stream without any human guidance. It
struck the shore while they watched it,
and they hastened down to sae what it con
tained. Beneath the awning they disoov
ered the dead body of a beautiful woman,
in who•c features Sir Lionel easily recog-
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nized the lovely maid of Shalett. Pursuing
their search, they discovered a purse richly
embroidered with gold and jewels, and
within the purse a letter, which Arthur
opened, and found addressed to himself and
all the Knights of the Round Table, stating
that Sir Launcelot of the Lake, the most ac
complished of knights and most beautiful
of men, but at the same time the most Cruel
and inflexible, had, by his rigor, produced
the death of the wretched maiden, whose
love was no less invincible than his cruelty.
The king immediately gave orders fur the
interment of the lady, with all the honors
suited to her rank, at the same time explain
ing to tl.e knights the history of her affec
tion for Sir Launcelot, which moved the
compassion and regret of all.
Such is the very beautiful little Arthurian
romance on which Tennyson's celebrated
poem of 1832 is funeded. Row fine k his
description of the last scene of nil:
••I'nder tOtVer And balenstv.
Ity garden wnll and g.rlle•l,
A gleaming }hope, the 11•mt••d by,
A vol., between the high,
Ntent slit) C3llllelOt
Out 1/[lOll /be Whatii they r•.ani.•_
lZutight and burgher, lord and deter.
Asa! round the prow• they toad her us Ime
• I he Lady of t•ltalott.,
"Who 1. alld %Vital is hotef
And AO ltglited ptllttec near
I/4rd the tOOll4l of royal cheer;
And they eras-ell thetrowlres au' fear,.
All the knogltte at
Itot I.III.IaCrIOIMUFCti a 114tha space;
•aul: 'She u lovely lace;
God so hi.< merry lend her grace'
Tun Ludy of Shalo:t.,"
Giving the Sack
Some eighty or a hundred years ego the
body of a man was found in the Tiber at
Rome. It was recognized ns that of a por
ter well known about the city, but a
stranger thing was that a second body false
that of a man) was found nt the same time
tied up inn sack which was strongly stitch.
ed on to the collar of the coat of the rorter.
This body was not se easily recognized, but
the strangeness of the circumstances set all
the authorities immediately to work in the
greatest earnest, and excited much interest
in the city. Before long suspicion arose
which attached itself to a woman of do.itic
ful character, who lived in the outskirts.
and whose husband had all nt once disap
peared. All, hovres er, that was knoWit
was this, that she had lived unhappillywith
him. Nothing could be diimovered' or
brought home to her, beyond the foot that
he was gone, and of course the maintained
that be had left her, and that she was a
much injured person. And thus, as there
was no proof, after awile the talk of the stf.
fair eras dying out, when all at once.it was
fanned into a flame again, the suspected
house was revisited, and the woman aetualy
brought to confess the truth that qto had
murdered her husband, and caused likewise
I the death of the porter. Upon this, with
out further ado, she was apprehended at.,l
had to undergo her trial. The obtaining of
this confession, and the discovery of what
had baffled the wisest beads in Rome,
caused a very great sensation, but nobody
seemed to know how it had been brought
about. Upon hertrialshe saidshe ittf
murdered her husband out of jealousy, and
i with no help front any human creature.—
The great difficulty she found was in die
; posing of tho body. At last else hit upon
this contrivance. She crammed it into a
sack and sent fur a porter with whom mho
was acquainted. It was then the dusk of
the evening. On his arrival she represent
!ed that she had been cleaning out her
house, and had collected a great mass of
rubbish, which she did not know what to
with, or Ito* to get rid of; she thought it a
good plan to stuff it all into a sack and halo
it thrown iuto the river. It WAR heavy, silo
I •
aaii but she would pay him well fur 1,1.4
j o b, and give him refreshment before I.
started with his load. The matter wino
thus arranged, they supped and earouse.t
together, and she so plied him with drink
that he was well nigh overcome. She thee
brought out the sack, and pretendings•to
jnst it to his shoulders, stitched it strongly
to the collar of liis coat, telling him all he
had to do when he got to the middle of the
bridg: was to lean it toward the edge, and
chuck the sack as far as be could over the
parapet, so as to get it clear out of the way
into the current, and she would give him
his money when he came back; which of
course he never did. She could not 'tell,
she said, how it had been found out, but she
supposed God and the Virgin Mother had
brought it to light; that was the whole
truth, the added, and all she had to tell.—
When the trial had arrived at this point, a
young lawyer stepped forward and asked
her, "if she ever told' anybody what she had
done, or had any accomplice who couhl
divulge it?"
"No," she said, "nobody ha.l liellke.l her,
end they might well suppase she ;vocal n. 4.
be such a fool :19 to tell it tii nny
creature."
"What. nohmly?"the young lawyer :tatted
"No," said sl" "only my conte‘snr
Here was a RAH t ion of the whole nes.,
and the lawyer soon discovered that the rots.
lessor had a brother in the galley.. and cal
ling to mind an old custom that if a galley
slave can be the means of bringing a trorse
criminal to justice than himself, ha raceived
his freedom, he arrived at the conclusion
that the galley-slave had furnished the clue
which turned out to be the fact. The wo
man escaped punishment as the discovery
had been made through a breach ofthe con
fessional. The father confessor absconded
ns soon as possible. Thr• lawyer roc
culizicnco
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