The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-11-26


the lids over. ber full, balfc closed blu
eyes, seemed but dropping before th
fixed gaze of him who bent over her
Entranced, curaptured, fascinated, Hor
ace gazcd upon the corpse
Speech, motion, everything seemed
goue out from bim--all his faculties were
concentrated into one sense--that of see.
ing! .......
The striking Of distant clock of the
hour of one, aroused him to a sense OF
bis condition. His thoughts came back
and rushed through his brain with the
rapidity of lightning.
Wall up this beautiful creature in 9
cellar, and amid the dampness and eve.-
lasting gloom ! Who knew what fearful
secret might be buried with herr Who
could tell the story of her death /; What
might not those lips unsealed from their
cold silence-reveal Of foul crime and
base vilainy
Could he bury her up from sight for
ever with that dreadful mystery hanging
around herr Would he do the deed
Never! God helping him, never!
Immediately he set about an examin
alton Of the walls of the cellar, and by
careful sounding he was enabled to de-
tect the outer wall He brought some
Of bis tools to the side of the masonry,
and in fifteen minutes had made an aper-
ture the size of a mans body through
the brick work. Fresh air, from heav-
ems outer courts, famed his brow, and
the heavy plunge Of gushing water could
be distinctly heard. Evidently the
building into which he had been so
strangely conveyed, was situated in the
vicinity of some river, if not upon its
very banks.
A wild, romantic possible from
is very impossibility-swept through
his mind, Why not remove the body to
he shores of the river, from whence he
could, he felt convinced, subsequently
discover and take it away to, at least,
Christian burial He could brick up
he recess, as bis employer required, and
Who would be the wiser;
This plan once conceived, was car
led into effect without hesitation. By
liligent laoor he soon enlarged the cavi-
y in the wall sufficiently for his purpose
md letting himself carefully out, he re-
,onnoitercd the premises The night
vas black as Erebus, and he could as
certain but little beyond the fact that he
stood in a deep drain which surrounded
he mansion the ascent from this drain
vas steep and PERCEPTIONS, but Horace
cit within himself the power to do great
hings, and he returned at once 10 the /
ellar.
Replacing the cover upon the box
nd lightly fastening the screws, he
prang through the aperture and drew it
4tter him. With the greatest difficulty
,e succeeded in raising the heavy, oak
N box to the surface Of the ground, for
he sides of the drain were wet and slip
perry. The gush of water could be very
plainly distinguished at but little dis.
tance of, aud close upon the mansion,
evidently between him and the river,
rose IA Jack copeswood Of low alders
Into these he at once dashed, bearing
bis load, and in fifteen minutes he stood
upon the borders of agreat rivera riy-
rr which he felt assured, was none other
han the Des p.
lie deposited his burden, for he had
lot a moments time TO waste, in dense
hickct close to the rivers edge, and /
marking the spo: by suspcnding bis white
,ockct handkerchief from an overhang-
ng branch, be hastily retraced his way
nd arrived in safety in the vault. Draw
1g forth his watch-the little silver
,aich which had been his dead sisters,
nd which no earthly need could induce
i'm to part with--he saw that it was
car two o'clock. But brief period
emained for the performance of his :
lsk, and never did mortal man labor ,
18th greater assiduity than did Horace |
'lintwood. At the end of eighteen
,inutes, the torn wall was mended in so |
kilful a manner that it would have de-
ed the scrutiny of the closest observer. ,
his done, he commenced upon the re- I
ess. Tier after tier Of brick rose up,