Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-11-26

any one; or, if he had, it was either some ser
want belonging 10 the strangers or sa,'or' "ho
chose TO see the ruin without feeling the gate"
keeper. Whoever it might be, the danger
SEEMED over. as he had never returned. 30
the uood dame did not trouble herself 10 tell
her husband the hour other departure; but
leaving Mary plenty Of employ men', she trot-
ted of, unno,iced by the miller, Mary sa,
down TO her work, but was soon interrupted
by the children. -.
Mary. you have no, played with US ever since
the day the last company came: do take US up
to the castle"
81 am busy, my dears, but you can go oy
yourselves. Here, John, take the Key you
can unlock The great door.
"Bus you can Go your work this afternoon,
when the sun is gone down; and we have not
had such fine day as this for week
every true" said Mary" VIII SO WIN
you just for half an hour"
So she tried on her bonnet, ard carried the
younge., child up the steep hill, while the ON
ers ran on before The children were iuli Oh
play, they climbed the broken walls, ana Sa''eu
in their sister to Jump them dowa again. iney
laughed at their own little leafs, ana wnen they
looked in Mary's face, she smiled kinoly az
them: but then she remembered the time when
a
w hen she and the children were tired climb
| ing and jumping, they sat down, and The little
ones pulled .off her bonnet and stuck 1t all
round with wood anemones, and then she re-
mcnbered who had done the same thing, IN the
same place, year before, and the tears came
into her ewes. After while, the children be-
sought her to play a, hide and-seeE with them,
and she did So She hid herself with all proper
caution. and burst from her hiding place to
| catch her LITTLE playmates, whose Shouts Of gics
echoed through The building. az,
"And now | must co. said she at last; Il
am sure have been more than hail an hour
with you"
ooh don't &c yet Mary" cried little John;
81 am to hide this time, and you must stay VII
1 have my turn"
DWELL just one turn more and then must
co." x
So the children hid themselves: and Mary,
having given notice to them to keep close, be"
gan her cautious search. She had by this
lime caught the spirit Of the game, and was
almost as iutent upon it as her little brothers.
she kept atchful eye on all sides; she listen
ed for every little noise, aud tRod as softly as
if there was any fear Of step so light AS hers
, being heard She fancied that the children
had chosen 10 hide. in different part OF the
building from mat Wntie lne! hau PlS'iou''J
S played, though equally near 10 the goal !ha,
e way she turned, and presently, she Saw, behind
c corner the flap Of a coat. She gave notice Of
r having seen it, and ran 10 the gal, but no one
/ followed. She called again, but no one came
out; she thought she had bren mistaken and a
Gain began l,er s-arch. amidst The most pro
:: found Stiffness With s,talthy pace she ap'
preached The corner, ready to spring away a
the first alarm No alarm was given and thu
coat flap was no longer visible She DIRE"
n pe4aEer, touched The hapad for%ars
and forward and at length fairly turned HI
corner.--She caught some one, but it was no
y John or Charles, no, it was as she thought
{ George himself Mary screamed and sunk
- ON the ground, and the vision was no more.
q Tine rolled on, and the colo
o hand Of death wassradually stealing over Ma.
:. rvs frame for the scene at the CASTLE and the
o. de athly hand that hen smotr her cheek, had
= withered ber Ike tile autumn blast, when late
v. On tempesutus nigh, an unknown visitan,
IS knocked al III door. His message was brief
pr 1T was to blr the last sigh of George TO his
- Mary, who hi persisted in a distant cline, at
r. the momentof the vision! Mary gave enc
an shrek, whic %as answered by the low murs
Sc mers of the Nd through the castle, and her
he spirit hed foses!