Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-07-15
NO. IS.

rocky CHI, passage some two hundred feet In
leng;h-one entrance of which faces tie east the
other, and more imposing one, The soalh4formed
INTO something resembling rude colonade, supper
ted by large masses of rock, through stack Of
rocks, IN direction parallel to the shore. At some
distance from This grand subtefranean mil. ia
deep cavern, which bears the name of the "Wind
Hold, from the singular fact that there are narrow
splracs leading up from ii to the top Of the cliff,
through which. when the tide is high, the wind rush.
es with such fury, that if a hat be placed over the
aperture, il is Instantly blown with great violence
into the air THESE singular caves in the solid stone
though well worthy The visits of the curious. had
long oai all their novelty to the inha bitans, and ex
ceptlng that le rocky colonade was Gyorle re-
sort OF the fisher boys, it was now rarely explored.
It was not generally known, therefore, that COM
muncaton existed between the subterranean hall at
the edge OF the cliff, and the deeper beyond
Still less was it expected that narrow winding pass
age, the opening of which concealed amid the
burial vaults of Dunraven Chapel, led directly from
The castle to The cavern. When or why this dark
and toruons path had been excavated, it would be
| impossible now to determine, but the remains of
chapes and dormitores aud vaults which prove
Dunraven to have once been a religious house,
might allow to conjecture that possibly tho monks
OF the olden time had thus followed out, secret
entrance to the world beyond their walls. ;"
Whatever might have been the purpose for which
it was originally designed, the present Lord of Dun
raven quickly found Its use. Seldom did the gates
of The old castle uncose TO admit cheerful guests,
yet often were the windows seen cleaning with
lights, and often were the sounds Of reyeIry borne
On the midnight breeze 10 the humble cottages of
the tenants. Guests came and went like shadows.
Night often closed upon the solitary inmates of the
castle, and morni ng broke upon them as solitary as
the evening had found them, yet, between he mid.
night hour and the ock-crowing, strange forms had
lifted across the lofty banquetting hall, and wine
had flowed in full streams around the plentifu,
boald. The servants marveed at these things bpt
| they dared ask no questions. One domestic alone
"a dlmnulrye and swarthy boy, who knew no 9TH
or language than the strange guitera speech in
which his master addressed him. and who never re-
piled except by signs, seemed to possess the conf
dence of Mr. Vaughan. He was the sole attendan, n,
these midnight orgies and it is not strange that the
ignorant peasants should have imbibed the notion
that the Lord of Dunraven dealt in wizard love, and
tina, his guests were the ghostly inhabitants of an
other world. The boy they regarded with fear and
horror as the attendant imp ofthe mysterious Lord
nor was the feeling diminished by the malicious
looks and gestures of Malek, who finding hnsefan
object Of dislike, delighted in terrifying them BY
opening his expansive jaws, and displaying mouth
sarnished with long sharp gli,terng teeh, but des-
tute of the least remnant of a tongue " =
Time passed away nothing had occurred to give
form and consistency 10 the vague suspicious which
had been excited in the minds Of all the neiphbor
hood, towards Mr. Vaughan. and yet the dislike and
dsrust of him unbounded. twas said that a
strange and susp cious- looking vessel was often
zen lowering around the coast Of Glamorganshire
and those " no rejected the supernatural from their
belief traced Mr.. Vaughan's mysterious visitors
rather to the ship, Than 10 the place of departed spi
rits. But whether he was engaged with smuggers
or prates was moi 10 be discovered, and men dared
not draw down his resentment by loo close an in
quiry. for, notwithstanding their dislike of him.
there yet x;sed one common ground on which the
ne shhors all met, and in which they had equal
interest Strange as 1t may seem, all who lived on
that dangerous and rock. bound coast. whatever
might ba their rank station, literally acreek
erS. I he spoIs cast up by the sea, were, by
mon consent, the property Of him on whose manor
! they tell, and many rich treasure was thu. ac
quired by the prnpretors of land on the sea shore
About five miles from Dunraven may sff be seen =
tall watch tower, 10 Saint Donat's Castle,
where a sentinel was always stationed 10 give notice
when slip in distress appeared, in Older that ihr
lord Of the castle might take possession of such OF
the wreck as should be driven ashore lYhe her ID.
beacon light which often bazed on the witch tow
er, was placed there for the benevolent purpose
Of warning vessels from the iron coast M, w4llbs
doubt ed for, cerlain il is, that previous 10 The re-
turn Of tie Lord OF Dunraven, almost every vessel
tina, su 9ered -hpwrct on those rocks, went ashore
on SAINT Eonai's manor. What horrd casiomis
that which thus offers premium 10 cruelty. and
makes tie LAND more perious to the sfpwFAckea
mariner, than the cruel sea from whose ya@nins
jaws he has just escaped. Who does not blush ioG
hnnan nature, when he remembers the scenes
which have been enacted not only on the savage
coast OF Cornwall. but even the dangerous shoals
of our own sea coast, in these days OF enlightened
humaniy'
The good fortune Of The Lord Of Saint Donat's,
changed with the coming Of the crafty Dunrayen,
and he was doomed to see from lis high tower, the
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