The Scranton tribune. (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, June 17, 1895, Page 6, Image 6
6 THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1805. i . : . - . .... . : :il A DEFIANCE TO BACKWARD SPRING Our Daring Oh and Bold Dash lor Patronage Will Bring a Host nl Bum DOLLAR B k FIVE DOLLARS TEN 2 mm 5 J M Secures choice of 500 ALL-WOOL Men's Summer Suits, sold elsewhere at $10.00 and $12.00; every color and design, in cluding Black and Blue Undressed Worsteds. Remember our guarantee goes with every Suit, as to color, wear and fit. Large stocks of Clothing are piled up, the tables groaning underneath its weight; so we start this unheard-of cut and slash NOW, when the' people will buy new Spring Suits, to attract people from every walk of life, from every town, village or hamlet m Northeastern Pennsylvania. We must move this tremendous mass of modern merchan dise NOW. We defy any house, no matter how glaring their advertis ing may seem, or how plausible their reasons for a sale may be, to come within 50 per cent, of our price. We Deal in Facts, Not Fafar?s Secures choice of 500 Men's All-Wool Summer Suits, made to retail at $15.00 and $18.00. We have grown great and big in doing the square thing. We cut the price of Men's Spring Suits in half, in thirds, at a time when you are getting ready to don a new Suit of Clothes. The Suits include elegant Black Clay Worsteds, durable Serges, Brown and Black Thebets, beautiful Tweeds, neat effects in Worsted and Cassimeres and Cheviots. Every one brand new, of this season's make and style. Stylish dressers desirous of having "Up-to-Date" Spring Clothes this is your chance. It is our loss and your gain. We are to determined to EO P DL You cannot equal our values. True values need but to be seen to be recognized. MAIL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE CAREFUL AND PROMPT ATTENTION. Leaders the NS OLL1 Clothing Trade of Scranton. HACKETT, 220 mm y m tommmimiiiiiitiiQiinm OST MAIS 1U ml. 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. 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