Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1859-10-10

Win AiO 5OARiGcoA90ss5s5A go teI
ftheir cold and icy stare, They had no
meaning. for the soulhad gone. And this
made il still more horrible than it could
have been IN life !; for the appalling con-
tortion Of their faces. expressing fear, hort
ror, despair, and Whatever else the hui
4 man soul may feel, contrasting with the
cold CLASSY eyes, made their vacancy yet
more feareful, He upon the table more
6endish than the others flor his long Black
1 haiIydisheyeled. and fioated horribly down
land his beard aud nloastaehe, allloosen-
ed BY the water. gave him the grimness
of demon. Oh, what woe and torture,
what unutterable agonies appeared in the
desparing glance Of those faces-S-faces
twisted in spanodic contortions, while the
souls that lighted them were writhing
and struggling for life.
/ ! needed not the dan gerous sea, which,
4 even when We touched the steamer, had
Eslightlw rolled. Down u these awful
i depths tKeswell would 1lqt be very strong,
4 unless i: should Increased with ten. fold
/ Jury above But il had been i6gfeasing.,
4 though I had not notic4dit, and the MO.
ton ofihe water began to be feltsin these
fabysses. Suddenly the steamer was
u shaken and rocked b. the swell St
4 AT this the fideous forms were shaken
and fell The heaps 9f peoPlerolled asui-
i der. The demon pn thu table seemed 10
make a spring directly towards nae, I fled,
sbrieking all were after me | thought.
/ rushed out with sno other purpose but
.to escape. i sought y throw of my
i weights and rise. Il
i My weights Could not be loosened. |
pulled at them with frantic exertion, but
! could not ioosenSthern. The iron faslen
ing had grown stiff One of them, !
wresied9of in, my eohyqlsiye efforts bul
1.-The: othets stiIl kept me- down. The tube,
, halso, was, lying down still in my. passage
sway through the machine rooms. / did
I not know this until Ibad exhausted MY
) strength, and almost my hope in vain
efforts to loosen the weight, and still The
horror Of that scene in the cabin rested
upon me.
i Where was RimmerEa The thought
! flashed across me, he. was not here,N He
| had returned. Two weights lay near,
[ which seemed thrown5offi hi terrible haste.
/ Yes, Rimmer bad gomez EI5 looked up
, There they lay the boat tossing and ron.
II ing among he waves. Ell
Il T rushed down into the machine room
ii to go bsektso as TO Iooseh my, tube. ]
Il had gone through passages carelessly and
III this laysthere, for it, was, unrolled from
Il above as weht on II went back in haste
I IL extricste myself; Iscould stay herr rc
I longer. forsif all tlRe gold lol GuldoRda was
! EkinI the vessel / wdald adkstays ID compa
ny with the Dreadful deaH!
!. Ef Baek-feaf lent wings to my feet.
/ Hurried down staifs intoEthes lower hold
I lonce more, and retraeed my steps through
/ Isthe passage below. IRalkea back to the
place iatp which had descehfed. 1t wa;
j dark = new feeling Of horror sh0
booked ap. The Aperture
was closed. n lI1 Iz4-7 L III
j Heavens was It closed By nlorta
] band Had Rimmer, ID bis panic ''fligh
blindly thrown down.the trap door, wllicl
/ now remembered to have seen opel
when / descended? .or had some fearful
! being from the eabin--lemon who sprsns
i towards ne ---------s
N. .lI started hack II terr,ot AZ Il
n ERnt / conl5 NOT wa;t Lere I must %
!. + must escane tb;s danf,of borrors
|. snrang m the ladder l.hd tr;ad i ,a;s
ttba door Il resisted nv efforts / pu
/ nv hemlsted head apainst Il. and tried /,
/ raisesit the rupp of'the ladder broke be
ne,t1,hg me hut The daor vas NOT raised
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