Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1849-07-21

could think of raising my CUR, my eyes
met those Of this strange figure; and such
eyes! Surprise at their cold, unnatural
expression, suspended my actioni burning
with chill of singular briIIlancy, in deep.
sunken sockets, they looked as if they
never had winked. Dwelling steadily up
on my face for moment, they seemed to
be satisfied, and the gun was slowly thrown
back upon his shoulders and pucking at
long grisly beard, with an impatient
gesture OF his bony hands, the figure made
stride across the trail, and without speak
ing a word plunged into the thickel.
was so confounted by his curious dumb.
show, that he was concealed in the brush
before l found my tongue to shout to him
10 stop; but he kept on, and | lost sight
OF hIm IN moment, and whether be can
talk al all or not, is more than ! can
tell?'
Did you look at his feet, Henry q inter
rupted one of the party. Il expect it was
old
Never mind what you expect-hear
me out he continued. Il followed the
trail, which wound about, il seemed to me
aS GA thO pOlhh5 VI iilc COIEDdSSs LOT
an hour or more; when at last il led me
out into prairie, which [ thought recog-
nized. | stopped; and was looking around
to make out the landmarks, when horse
with saddle on burst from the woods be-
hind me, and tore off across the prairie,
as If he too had seen the devil
'What color was he 2 exclaimed halEa.
dozen voices in breath.
He was too far off for me TO distinguish
more than that he was dark horse-say
about as mine. could distinguish the
pummel OF the saddle and the stirrups fly
ing p
'Stoner's horse was dark bay,' was
buzzed around the table in low tones,
every one looking seriously in his neigh.
boris face.
'Yesr said the Squire raising and step
ping uneasily to the window. 'Stoner's
horse was good deal like yours; he must
have got away from him, and that is what
detains him. But then the nag was a very
kind creature, and we'll trained. wonder
IT should have behaved so =
Don't believe bay would have done it,
SQUIRE said one of The men. Something
gone wrong, | think Was the bride
down, Mr. Henry?
1T was too far off for me to tell. | fol.
lowed IN the direction the horse took, and
soon found myself here, and expected to
find it here toop
mo Stoner's is beyond here,' said the
Squire. THAT wagon trail you were
turning and twisting about in, is a road
had opened TO number of board trees,
we cut and rived out there; you might have
followed 1t for hours and not been more
than mile or so from the pace you start
ed from. That ghost of yours, blythe
way, may be some crazy fellow, who has
wandered off'into these parts, with mischief
in him Did you hear no gun =
81 thought | dId-about dn hour after
parting with that man, or devil, or what.
ever he was-but the sound vas so faint
and distant, that for fear might be mista-
ken, did not 90 TO it; and the road had
turned go frequently, could not tell
whether II was IN the direction he went off
or not
Here the driver" interposed, saying
that he had heard rife about that time
on the right, but supposlng /; to be Henry
or 6toner, he thought nothing of it. And !
halt,laughlng discussion followed as TO |
the probable character of The wood-ghost |
Henry had reported of-some asserting
that he was quzzing Us, for these men
were too much accustomed to the exigen- /
cIes of hunters life to be for more than |
a moment serous y affected by the cir.
cumsiances of Stoner's non-arriva. In [,
the midst of this, a horses feet were heard |
gaIloping up to the door, and loud "Hal. |
Ioo!" followed. The Squire rose hastily |
and wen! out. In moment afteI he cd
tered, looking pale and excited.
Tom Dix Zone Of Stonsr's neighbors) |
says that his horse has come home without |
rider, the reins upon his neck, and a
clot of blood upon the pummel of the sad
die Boys he's been shot Just as
expected from The first
Every body rose at this announcement
looking in the face Of him opposite with
a blank pallld stare.
The crazy man CALCULATED several
Strange P-' Very mysterious business =
said others.
Il tell you what said the Squire after
a pause, has struck me from the first. 1t
is that this strange looking fellow Henry
saw, mstook him for Stoner, until he look
ed into his face, for Henry's horse and gen
eral appearance are not unlike hls-and
when he found that he was wrong, got out
Of The way and went on till he met SIoner
himself, and has shot himp
No doubt of it = said several.
Bat lis a very mysterious affair,' con
Linued he know of no such looking
man 10 this region as Henry describes but
At any rate he will be hunted down to-mor.
row, for Stoner was one of the Regulators,
and HInch il perfect blood hound He