The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1852-12-23
EsTERLY, R. l., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1852
nor less than a Jack lantern, Will.


"You are wrong, the window has
been seen-the very number of panes
counted t; there are six my boy Hem
rich there has seen it." .g-ti
The host pointed to a stout lad OF Is,
who had been attending to the strangers
wants.
"Ah that alters the case, though |
must say that this light in the window
is rather dark affair. But how chanc-
ed it that he could approach so near this
dangerous object and not be the worse
for it, when | understood you to say
all others have perish I'd :" aa.
"You shall hear; it must have been
through the mercy of Providence. One
evening, as Heinrich was returning from
town, some twenty miles beyond here,
he got belated in the forest. 1t grew
so dark he could hardly see his way by
the time he got within about five miles
of here. Feeling somewhat tired, he
stopped to rest by the road side, when
looking into the woods, he beheld the
light cleaning from the window" >.
u What five miles from here ?" in
terrupted the Captain why, where j
saw it tonight must be all of ten miles
from here"
81 have no doubt of tit is seen at
all distances along the road, but he saw
it FIVE miles from here, on the right hand
side Of the road"
"Thc right hand side it was on the
left hand side when l saw it."
"Oh, for the matter of that, it is seen
on either side by different persons in
fact no two ever saw it at the same
place."
"The devil but 90 on"
i "The moment Heinrich beheld the
light, feeling thirsty, he determined to
approach the cottage and request a
ldraught of milk mind, this was before
it had become SO noted-naturally sup
posing that he was near the cottage of
some woodman He made his way
through the underwood towards it, won
dering at the taste of man who could
build his house amid thick wood of
brambles. 1t seems he had miscalculat-
ed the distance, for when he thought he
should have gained the light, it was as
far off as when he first saw it. He con-
tinued to press on for about fifteen min
utes, yet the light maintained the same
distance. He paused bewildered for
a few moments it grew more distinct
he could count the panes of glass, and
he almost thought he saw strange wild
face gazing out upon him. A Sudden
terror seized upon him and he turned
and fled. That terror saved his life
had he followed the fearful light an in
slant longer he would have been lost
He reached home more dead than alive,
and it was more than an hour before he
could find breath to tell us what have
just related"
$50 YOU think the fend himself has
something to do with this travelling win
dow" Is
| CT do not know what to think. You
know this inn of mine lies half way be-
tween the towns of Waldburg and Mo-
ritz. Many rich travellers leave one of
these towns f.r the other, yet one out
of every two never reach their place of
destination. They are missed between
here and and Waldburg."
Robbed and murdered perhaps by
some ruffian who infests the roads
4 "Their bodies are never found"
j Have the police investigated the
matter :"
I" Yes, but without discovering any
signs of a band of robbers. We told
! them of the window, and they watched
for it, but as they could never see it,
laughed at us, and told US our light was
, nothing but freely"
"Strange that it did not appear to
them" .l1.n i.sfal %.
,, cit was so. After they left the
| ncighborhood the window again became
visible, and travellers disappeared as be-
, fore"
"Was there anything singular con-
nccted with the disappearance of these
travellers I" a.illts ~
eyes, one thing; all that were miss
; cd had journeyed alone. Strange to say
I those who travelled in parties of two or
three invariably escaped" ifn '-e
4 Well, my worthy host, do you know
that a strange desire has seized upon me
to penetrate this mystery 1t seems
j that I am the only solitary traveller who
, has escaped the dangers Of this mystic
, rious window that is presage Of sue
D cess. 1 have nothing better on my