The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-12-27 00:00:00

Indeed not exaggerated her powers of mind, and we
were still talking (she and 1), when I became aware
of a singular movement of the carriage in whiob
we were, which increased till we swung violently bask.
wards and forward& Then there was a tremendous
stash, the carrriage upset, and all seemed going to
pieces. An immense spar struck the lady violently on
the bead. I heard a crunehing of delicate bones, saw
Charley sinking under another, I myself was stunned
by thew:inclusion. When I recovered there seemed
to be nothing round me but a mass of broken timbers;
but after a time I diatinguished Charley lying bleeding,
and insensible under the debris. The greater mass,
however, seemed on the ladr's arm. I groped my war
to her and shuddering to think what I should find
there, without soy expectation of their being any
...we, to my question, .emembering what I had
beard and seen against that small head, asked how
much she was hurt.
"Not at all thank you, replied the sweet low votes
sever thought to hear again. "flow is your
friend ?"
He ii insensible; I cannot, I fear, extricate him.
Can I assist your
" mot mind me,' she answered, "go at once for
assistantse for your friend."

ñii-ca-niint—le;iie- you so." I was trying to re.
move the spars that lay over her; how she could
breathe under such • weight astonished me. for I could
not move one, and they lay right on her chest.
" Ooly assist me to extricate my hand, and then
hasten away," she answered; "you cannot help me
otherwise. '
With the greeted exertion I managed to effect an
opening, through which she passed her hand. I started,
for the blood seemed fresh on It. The next moment I
remembered the singular stain. I took hold of it to
It through; It was deadly, heavy, cold, and sent •
shiver to my sold.
"Now go," she said, "you can do no more for me,
and your friend's life may be at stake. Oh go r
I bad indeed been neglecting poor Charley. I now
freed his bead and chest as much as I 'maid, and then
aryl out to see ill could get help. It was • frightful
scene as I made my way out : there wars • few glaring
torches, brought from the next station, which we were
near, and people running madly up and down; whilst
amongst the broken timbers you sew mangled, bleeding
bodies, helplessly, hopelessly entangled, another
train running into ogre seemed to have caused the acci-
dent by throwing us down an embankment. I was
fortunate enough to fall in with the guard of par train
(who happened to be an old servant of our family, and
knew me well), directing some fellows with spades to
dig for the passengers, and prevailed upon him to begin
with our carriage.
I set them to work on poor Charley, who was still
insensible, and climbed over to the other side to
encourage the lady. I found her as I had left
her.

" Make haste, my lads," said I. "the lady is still
tioascioas.4

"What lady, air," said the guard, coming toward,
me. "There wu no one in the carrLage you recollect,
Mr. Frederick, but you and the poor gentleman. You
told me to lock you in."
. _

"Bid there was a Inly, I tell you, got in afterwards
—there is a lady—hero under our feet; help me to
move these timbers, maa."
The man stared at me, as if to thought me insane •
but helped to remove one or two spars, sod she raised
herself OD her arm.

"Gently, gently, man," said I. "You will let that
fall on the lady's head again. Can you rise now
madam r and I held out my head.
"My good sir—my dear sir—there is no one there,"
said the guard. catching my outstretched arm. "By
Heavens, I think be is gone mad I Mr. Frederisk r
"No one there— what do you mean f 4 said I, shek-
ing him if, "You tout be mad. Como, madam;"
and as I touched I. r colt sot oho rose to her feet, as
if she ca.it the tindi.r off hpr lb., tester. "Yon will
at her cloak on Are, man;" I oseeitne4. ru.hing on
tho ,or I, eh we woieing he torch so alow to us, I
thought to light girment of my companion must
catch the fi mo.

"Now, do-ee coin- away, sir—there's nothing there
—nothing but the broken timbers," repli,d the Wen,
1100thilley. "I believe the poor gentleman's bead is
turned," he added to one of the other men.
A fearful sena.tion overpowered me—was she then
Invisible / By this time Charley was extricated, and
with the assistance of one of the men, whom I retained
to help me, we carried him to the station-house. The
lady walked noiselessly by our side. Ido not know if the
other man was aware of her presence. I almost thou.ht
that Charley felt it, unconscious as he appeared ; for
the expression of his face changed as she cams to his
side. It was a mournful walk ; but we reached the
station-house at last, and placed him on one of the
sofas in the waitiorproom. The lady stood by his side
like a fair statue, still wrapped is a white cloak. She
was still standing there when I came back from enquir-
ing for the peanut doctor; he bad been sent for, and
was expected to arrive Immediately.
"A doctor is coming," I said; "perhaps we can do
(something meanwhile. Can you chafe his header
"Ii lAis likely to warm them r she replied softly,
Laying her ley hand for one moment on mine; the
touch almost paralysed it.
' You are ill, yourself!" I exclaimed. " What can
I do? Best yourself."
"Rest, Oh, Heavens !" she answered, waving me
away. "Do not think of me. I cannot rest. Attend
to your friend."
The advice was good. I knelt down by Charley,
loosened his cravat, and endeavoured to daunt& the
blood that flowed from the wound in his bead. She
stood at • little distance from us, her arms folded on
her breast, and an expression of intense agony on her
pale face. I was still busy with my friend, when I
heard the clatter of horses' hoofs outside ; the door
opened, and at the same moment a dreadful shriek
rang through the air, and turning. I saw the lady bad
disappeared, and a stout, middle-aged man standing in
the doorway. That dreadful shriek had penetrated
even to Charley's slumbering brain; be opened his
eyes, and faintly asked where he was.
Meanwhile, the new comer, who proved to be the
doctor, advanced hastily towards me, and is agitated
tones inquired in the name of Heaven who the lady
was?
"I know nothing of her." said I, "except that she
travelled with us part of the way. Where can she be
gone now?"

"Do not go. Do not go after her," exclaimed Charley,
faintly detaining me, as I was rushing from the room.
"Ii she gone? It mast be about the time she dis-
appeared before."
In spite of his remonstrances, I, however, went out,
and inquired of the people in the outer room which way
the lady in the white cloak had gone? They all denied
having seen any such lady either enter or go out, and
even the man who had helped me to carry Charley,
evidently thought I was delirious in talking of the lady
who had walked by our ride.
I returned to the waiting-room, where the doctor
wee binding up Charley's wounds, and told him of my
fruitless researohea, and asked what he knew of her?
He replied that he did not know her ; but was struck
by her likeness to • lady whom he had attended in that
neighbourhood some years before, whose husband had
been killed in • railway accident, not far from this very
station.

"What beeline of the lady I" I asked.
" She died," was the short answer.
I fancied I beard a moon run through the building
as he spoke, but it might have been merely my exalted
fancy. He wu not at Idret disposed to be communicative
on the subject ; bet Charley's hurts were severe; for
some time he was under Dr. Healall's treatment, and
from him we at IDA gained the history of the lady
whose mysterious likeness had disappeared so suddenly
on his arrival with as. She had confided it to him on
her death•bed.

It appeared she bad married • rich eotton-spinner,
many years old than herself, and in order to save her
favourite brother from disgrace and ruin, she had
forged her husband's name to cheques for an amount
which freed- her brother. The husband, however, had
discovered the fraud ; he put:the polioe on the track of
the brother, and carried her off with him, intending to
take her to rilaagow, to confront her with the manager
of the bank there on which the forgeries had been
drawn. They reemed to have had • frightful quarrel in
the railway carriage, he reproaching her with her dis-
honesty, and she Grimly upbraiding him with wishing
to deliver her brother to justice.
"Sooner than you should succeed I" she cried in her
paaeion, " nay we never reach our journey'e end—tuaY
I rather see you dead at my feet r
He started up, saying he would travel no longer
In the same carriage with her, and thrust his head
. . .

out of the window. As he. stood with-- hi; .1;;;T:1
and part of hie body not of the window,
she saw they were coining to • tunnel I They were on
the line nest the wall ; she saw it ooming—and coming
but she would not speak. The neat mi,ment there wag
•blow—ii crunch —and her husband's oorpte fell heavily
wogs her lap, with the skull fractered by concision
against the wall. How ale travelled miles in the
darkening afternoon of that awful twenty ninth of
Delemb-r with that dead body on her knee her fair
hand stained by his blood, bow when they found her at
last she was almost paralyised to i liotoy ; how she
lingered but a few weeks after him and lien faded away
a prey to the deepest remorse time and space fail me
to tell here; but Dr. Hasten's narrative was am solemn
as it was shrilling and both Charley and I left more
sobered, and saddened Olen.

ORDINATION& —At an ordinstion held by the Lord
Bishop of Salisbury, in the Cathedral Church of Salis-
bury, on Sunday, the following were admitted into
Holy Orders :—Deacous : John Bond, B.A. St John's
College. Ostord, lussoesd to the curacy of tinhorns St.
Andrest-eass-Dewlish ; John Aaron Miller, 8.A.,
University of London, licensed to the curacy of Hol-
combe Regis.cara-Radipole. Print,; Bev. Michard
Brudenell Lawson Estou, student of St. Billes College,
and curate of St. James, Shaftesbury.

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