New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1841-09-17
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CHAPTER LV.

his ewes, certainly, but with all his powers of
reason and reflection in sound and drearnless
sleep. He looked round upon the room which mad
been for years, and within hour ago the
PRIDE OF his heart; and net muscle Of ms lace
mogcd. The night without looked black and
cold through the black and dfeary gaps in the case
Inent the precious liquids, now nearly leaked
away. dripped with hollow sound upon the hocr :
the Maypole reered ruefuy in through the brohen
window Ike the bowsprit OF wrecked snip t'e
ground might have been the bottom OF the sen II
was strewn with precou. fragments. Cuf'G enc
OF air rushed in "a the old doors Jared and creased
upon Their hinges; the candies fickered ana su'-
tered down, and made long windng,sheet' tie
CHEEKY deep-red curtains tapped and huitered ld'f
in the road even The stout Dutch kegs overthrown
and Iaying empty in DARK corners, seerscd the mere
husks of good fellows whose jollity had departed,
and who could kindle with a friendly glow
more. JOHN saw this desolation and yet 1t
not He was perfectly contented TO SIT there star
ing At it, and felt no more Indignation and dscom-
fort IN his bonds than if they had been robes OF honor
So far as he was personally concerned, old Time
lay snoring, and the world stood still.
Save for the dripping from the barrels the rust
ling Of such light fragments OF destruction as the
wind effected, and the dull creakiA. Of the OPEN
doors, all was profoundly quiet indeed these
sounds, like the ticking of tie death-watch in the
and more apparent. But quiet noisy it was all
one to John If train of heavy artillery could
have come up and commenced ball-practce out
side the window il would have been all the same
IL him. He was long way beyond surprise
ghost couldn't have oyertahen him.
By and by he heard footstep-a hurried and
yet cautions footstep-coming toward the house.
IL stopped. advanced again. then seemed to 90
quite round it. Having done that, 1t came beneath
the window, and a head looked in.
Ii was strongly relieved again the darkness out
side by the glare of the gutterng candles. pale
worn wi;hercd fuce the eyes-bu that WIS owing
10 it, saunt large and brght;
the hair p grizzled black. II gave n searching
glance all around the and deep voice said
Are you alone in this house,
John made no sign. though the question
peaed twice, and he heard ii distinctly After
moments pause, the man got III at the windows
John all surprised at this either. There
had been much getting in and out OF window in
the course Of the last hour or So that ne had quite
forgotten the door, ana seemed TO have lived among
such exercises from infancy.
The u large dark faded cloak and
slouchcd hat; he walked up close to john ard
looked at him. John returned the compliment
with interest
q How long have you been sitting thus ~ said
The man.
.ionn considered, nut lOttliHg came OF H.
Which way have the party gone? y
Some wandering sPeculations relative to the
fashion OF the strangers boots got into Mr.. VIII
let's mind BY some accident other, but they got
on, again in "a hurry and left him in his former !
state
s.You would do well to speak, said the man,
Won may keep whole skin though YOU have ao-
Thing else left that can be hurt. Which way have
the party gonc!''
s'rhat!' said John, finding his voice all at once,
and nodding with perfect good faith he could
point he was so tightly bound-in exactly the oppo-
site direction to the right
"You he" said the angrily, and with
threatening gesture. that way. You
would betray me.
1t was so evident that Johns imperturbability
was not assumed but was the result of the late
proceedings under his roof, that the man stayed
his hand in the very act of striking him and turned
away.
John looked after him without much as
witch in a single of his face. He seized
glass. and holding it under one OF the little casks
until few drops were collected drank them gree
Oily off then dashing it down upon the floor rpa-
iienty, he took the vessel in his hands and drained
it into his throat. Some scraps OF bread and meat
were scattered about and on these he fell next, |
eating them with great voracity, and pausng every
now aud then to listen to some fancied noise out
side When he had refreshed himself in this man
ner with violent haste and raised another barrel TO
his lips he pulled hi: hat upon his brow as though
he were about to leave the house. and turned TO
John.
Where are your servant. p
Mr. Willet indistinctly remembered to have
heard the rioters calling to them to throw the key
of the room in which they out OF the window
for their keeping. He therefore replied, " Locked
up
"Well for them if they remain quiet, and well
FOR you If YOU do the like" said the man. " Now
show me the way the party went.
This time Mr. Willct Indicated it correctly. The
man wa. hurrying the door, when suddenly there
came toward them on the wind, the loud and rapid
ROLLING of an alarm bell and then bright and vivid
glare streamed up, which umiued, not only the
whole chamber, but all the country
II was not the sudden change from darkness to
this dreadful light it not the sound OF distant
shrieks and shouts of triumph not this dread
invasion of the serenity and peace of night that
drove the man back as though thunderbolt had
struck him. Ii was the bell. Ii the ghaStlies'
shape the human mind ever pictured in its widest
dreams had risen up before him, he could not have
staggered backward from its touch as he did from
the first sound OF that loud iron voice With
ewes that started from his head, his limbs con-
vulsed his face most horrible 10 see, he raised
one arm high up into the air, and holding some
thing visionary back and down with his other
hand, drove ut it as though he held a knife ana
stabbed il TO the heart. He cutched his hair, aud
stopped his ears and travelled mady round aud
round; then gave trigh,ful cry and whit rushed
away: STILL still the bell ,olled ana seemed to
follow him-loudcr and louder hotter and hotter
Vet The glare grew brighter, the roar OF voices
deeper. the crash Of heavy bodies falling shook
+ha hrlC Of n