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By ANNA KATHER1NE GREEN.
Copyright 1885. by Irving Bacbeller.
III.
How I found my way out of that room
and how I at last stumbled into my
own, is of small Importance. What I
' should tell Is tbat just as I crossed my
darkened threshold I caught, tax down
tbe hall, a passing glimpse of Lucetta
carrying a lighted candle In her hand.
After that short view I remember noth
ing.' Tet I must have undressed myself
and gone to bed, for when I woko In
the' morning I was between the sheets
and the bed was pushed back In Its
place against the wall.
Jt was a maid who woke me. I had
seeo this woman 'before, and had rather
Uked her appearance, which was that
of a strong and kindly woman. She
waa building the Are when I opened
my eyes, and the cheerful glow pro
dace quite a strange effect upon me.
The visions of the night seemed to re
cede, and for a moment I believed my
self to have been merely the victim of
a horrible nightmare. Her face, as she
turned towards me, added to this feel
ing.'lt was so frank and cheerful.
"Ah, Miss Grant," she cried, 'Miss
Knollys sends her love and hopes you
have passed a pleasant night."
I was dumfounded. Either her as
surance was great, or my Imagination
had Indeed played me a fearful trick.
Determined to settle the matter at once
I inquired as lightly as I could what
had happened In the night to keep the
family up. To which she responded
that Miss Lucetta had been 111 (a palpa
ble falsehood. If I had really seen her
passing down the hall with a lighted
candle In her hand), adding, as I showed
urprlse in my manner, "Lucetta Is
often ill. Many is the night I have to
sit up with her."
"But I saw her," I began, and
topped. Had I in reality seen her, or
had I been laboring under an hallu
cination which brought her image up
before me, and if her Image had been
ait hallucination, why not that other
dreadful thing which had made the
night a horror to me? Changing my
assertion then into a question, I asked
If; her young mistress was better:' to
which the woman replied that happily
he was, and having finished her work
at the hearth, she rose- and with an
amiable air, inquired if she could do
anything for me.
I told her I wanted more light, and
When she moved to arrange the cur
tains, I remarked on the size of the
house and asked how many there were
In the family. , .
She mentioned the three young peo
ple, a man servant and herself, and
then added: "There are not many of
us, but enough to make use of the
Jiouse and to keep most of the rooms
nirred up.
' "And 'was there no one else in the
house last night?" I pursued. - -
She turned sharply, looked at me
With displeasure, and quickly replied:
t"Why, you were here, were you not?" '
"I laughed, but did not desist. "And
Boone else?" ...
She seemed embarrassed at my per
sistence, but - answered emphatically
enough: "No, no one else." At which
I made up my mind that I would try
some time through the day to see all
the persons she had mentioned, and
If I found them all well, to regard my
adventure as no more than an unusual
ly vlvd nightmare as possibly It was.
The woman herself at this moment
unconsciously emphasized my decision.
"If I might be so curious," said she, "I
would like to ask why you look so pale
thlB morning. Does a wakeful night
always affect you In this way?"
"No," said I, "not when I am not
frightened."
"And you were frightened?"
"Very much so."
"That is too bad; what could have
done It? Miss Lucetta's sickness?"
"I thought," said I, rising on my
elbow, so as to look her squarely in the
face, "that some one came to my door
at mrtnight and locked It softly on the
outside."
"Dreams, dreams!" ejaculated the
woman.
"That later, two hours after, per
haps, the same person came back and
as softly' unlocked It again."
"Mere fancy, child, mere fancy."
"And do you mean to say," I cried,
starting up, "that no one did do that?"
"I do certainly mean to say that you
dreumed all this or that your Imagina
tion deceived you. We had no time to
come to your door last night."
' "I will aak Miss Knollys," I cried. "I
cannot believe I dreamed that."
Hut here the woman assumed a very
serious air.
"I would not disturb Miss Knollys if
I were you. She has her troubles and
Is very anxious about her sister and not
well hersolf besides. It would be cruel
to bother her with silly fancies Just
now."
It was not a silly fancy, for I knew I
had experienced that part of my night's
adventure If no more, but I was not
untouched by the woman's appeal, so
I let a . little laugh escape me, and
Bowel
1 Troubles
among infants and small children
in summer is most to be dreaded.
Improper food and insufficient
nourishment is always the cause.
A few drops of
Bpvinine
added to the milk at each feeding
will regulate the bowels, strengthen
and save the child. Twenty-five
thousand physicians endorse it.
Children who take Bovinine
are protected against diseases of
every kind.
charmed at the beam of sunshine which
at that moment poured Into the room,
I answered in quite a different tone of
voice:
"Well, it Is morning now and matters
look very different by daylight. (Per
haps no one did come to my door. At
all events I will try to think so."
Before I was quite dressed Miss
Knollys came for me. She looked
tired, but not so careworn as I expect
ed; Indeed there seemed to be a slight
lifting of the shadow that had been on
the brow the day before. Seeing it, I
became puzzled again and resolving to
Ignore the night entirely, I greeted her
pleasantly and scarcely changed color
when she said:
"Matlkla tells me you did not Bleep
well In spite of my assurances. Is that
so, Miss Grant?"
"It ia so and it Isn't so," I laughed;
"I slept some and I was awake some,
but that was to be expected In a strange
house. But I feel very well this morn
ing, better than Lucetta, I fear. I hear
that she was quite ill In the night."
"Lucetta has 'heart complaint," an
swered Miss Knollys, with a curious
tone of decision In her voice. "But you
will find her sitting In her usual place
at table this morning."
And I did.
I had determined on rising to cut my
visit short and leave the house before
the day was .out. But as the hours
went by I found this becoming more
and more difficult. The girls showed
me so much kindness, and the brother
such a new Interest, that common grati
tude kept me from showing the extent
of my feelings 4y a sudden departure.
Besides these feelings had become
much modified by the sunny aspect of
the day and by a long drive which
Lucetta had given me in the early fore
noon. The man whom they called Big
Bob had brought round the horse, and
thus having seen all the members of
the family, alive and well, I felt sure
that the horror of the night had Indeed
been but a dream and that It would be
both unwise and ridiculous to dwell
any longer on what a perfectly sane
mind would dismiss at once.
, Yet when the shadow began to
lengthen and I found that no change
had been made in my apartment, and
that I was likely to sleep again In that
remote room, I felt a decided return of
yesterday's apprehension.
Miss Knollys, whose face had grown
graverastheevenlng advanced, showed
that she appreciated my secret dread,
and, with a glance at her sister, put
her arm round me as she led me down
the hall, saying that on the morrow
srje would.be able to make different
arrangements. If I would only excuse
her for this one more night.
I returned her embrace and answered
as suitably as my fears would allow;
and making a great effort over myself,
did succeed In falling asleep much more
quickly after her departure than Thad
anticipated. ( , .
But I was not to rest. The horrors
of my short stay In this house were not
ye( over, and sometime in the night, I
never knew at what hour, I was again
awakened by . the sound of a gliding
step, a hand on. the lock, and the turn
ing of the key, which, for the econd
tlmq made me a prisoner, . .
Sp all that I had suffered the night
before had not been a dream! Some
thing strange, something which they
feared to have me witness, waa going
on In this house of seemingly Innocent
young people. What could it be, and
what connection would the events of
this night have with those of the one
before?
Listening Intently, I heard first the
trampling of several feet down the cor
sldor, then a prolonged silence, and
then -a second trampling, measured in
Its tone, as when several men carry a
heavy burden. Instantly I seemed to
see again that outstretched form and
clay-cold face I had touched the pre
vious night, and with my hair rising
on my forehead, I hearkened to the
diminishing sounds till they finally
ceased In what seemed to me to be the
dlreotion of the staircase.
Horrified beyond all precedent, and
feeling myself Involved in the perpetra
tion of some unknowa crime, I sank
back on the edge of the bed, asking my
self whether I should light my little
stump of candle or no. But Just then
a stir somewhere below me drew my
attention to the window, and abandon
ing all thought of a light, I sprang to
the curtains and drew them, only to
find my view shut out by two blank
shutters. Desperate now, and con
vinced more and more that therijf was
something to be seen from this window,
I pulled at the fastenings with my
whole strength, and finally succeeded
in unclosing one of the shutters, which
fell slowly back. Immediately a wide
scene opened before me of stark black
trees and white wastes of new fallen
snow. Nothing else, strain my eyes as
I would, till suddenly warned by a
slight sound from the corner of the
house, I leaned out as far as I dared,
when I saw the moving shadows of
four people (only the shadows, the peo
ple themselves were not visible) stag
gering under a load, the size and shape
of which were sharply delineated on
the snow. The burden was a coffin and
the bearers you can understand my
terror when I say this were not all
men. Two had skirts on, and If I was
not greatly mistaken In the Blight and
delicate form of the hlndermost, It was i
Miss Knollys herself who thus helped
to carry an unknown body to Its prob
able burial.
Overwhelmed by this confirmation of
my strange experiences of the . night
before, and yet enough mistress of my
self, to wish to gain all the Information
I could on this mysterious subject, I
watched the shadows as they wound
their dreary way Into the leafless forest,
and never moved from my Htatlon till
they had all disappeared In the obscur
ity. Then. I sank back Into the room
winding the heavy curtains about me to
keep out the deathly chill both of my
thoughts' and outside air, waiting and
watching for their return. It came In
about an hour. Klrst the delicate form
of Miss Knollys appeared, then the
heavier one of the maid who had vis
ited my room, and then those of two
men, one very large and one slighter,
In other words, Big Bob and young Mr.
Knollys. Lucetta evidently had not
accompanied them. They came back
more quickly than they went, for they
had left their burden behind them. Be
fore they entered the house I was al
ready again In bed, and not ten min
utes after the front door had closed I
heard the sly step again at my door
and that light turning of the lock which
proved that the business of the night
was over.
To Be Continued.
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