The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-10-31

be FREQ land would have taken il, long ago,
with my own hands, but for the sin =
She spoke in low voice. but with wild
ca,nestnoss which startled me. She, then,
was equally victim
But said l, this thing had u beginning.
Why did you visit him in the first place,
when, perhaps, you might have prevented
itT
Il am afraid that was my sin she replied,
and this is the punishment. When father
and mother died and was layin' sick and
weak with nothin to do but think Of him,
and me all alone in the world, aud not know
in how to live without him, because had
nobody left--thats when it begun. When
the deadly kind y sleeps came on---they
used to think was dead, OF faintin ut lirst
and could go where my heart drawed
me- and look at him away OF where he
lived, twas consolin', and didn't try to
stop it. | used to long for the night, so
could 20 and be near him for an hour or
two. I don't know how / went: il seemed
to come of itself, After while felt ! was
troublin' him and doin' no good to myself,
but the sleeps came just the same as ever,
and then couldn't help myself. They re
only q sorrow to me now, but | s'pose |
shall have 'em till I'm laid in my grave
This was all the explanation she could
give. Ii was evidently one of those mys-
ferrous cases of spiritual disease which
completely battle our reason. Although COM
pelled to accept her statement, felt incapa-
BILE of suggesting any remedy. could only
hope that the abnormal condition into which
she had fallen might speedily wear out her
vital energies, already seriously shattered.
She informed me further that each attack
was succeeded by great exhaustion and that
she felt herself growing foobler, from year
to year. The immediate result, suspected
was disease of the heart which might
give her the blessing of death sooner than
she hoped. Before taking leave of her, |
succeeded in procuring from her n promise
that she would write to Eber Nicholson
giving him that free forgiveness which wo'd
at least ease his conscience and make his
burden somewhat lighter to bear. Then,
feeling that it was not in my power to do
more, | rose to depart. Taking her hand
which lay cold and passive in mine,--so
much like dead hand that it required II
strong effort in me to repress nervous
shudt i said, Farewell, Rachel Emmons,
and remember that they who seek peace in
the right spirit will always find it at last
1T won't be many years before find it,
she replied calmly and the weird, super
natural light of her eyes shonc upon me
for the last time.
reached New York in due time, and did
not fail sitting around the boiled oysters
and celery, with my partners, tn repeat the
story of the Haunted Shanty. | knew, be-
forehand how they would receive it but
the circumstances had taken such hold of
my mind SO burned me, Ike boys mon
ey, to keep butto up in the pocket--th
/ could no more help telling the tale than
the man remember reading about a greal
while ago, in poem called The Ancient
: Mariner Beeson, who, l suspect, don't
: believe much OF anything, is always apt to
; carry his raillery too far; and thenccforth,
whenever the drum of target company
= marching down Broadway, passed the head
of our street, he would whisper TO me,
There comes Rachel Emmonsr = until final
iy became angry, and insisted that the sub
, iect should never again be mentioned
But none the less recalled it to my mind,
from time to time with singular interest.
1t was the one supernatural, or at least in
; explicahlc event of my life, and continued
to feel a profound curiosity with regard to
= the two principal characters. My slight en-.
deavor to assist them by such counsel as
had suggested itself to me was actuatcd by
the purest human sympathy, and upon fur
ther reflection | could discover no other
means of help. A spiritual disease could
, be cured only by spiritual medicine, unless
indeed, the secret of Rachel Emmons' mys-
) tcrious condition lay in some permanent
dsocation of the reluton between soul and
body, which could terminate only with their
final separation
With the extension of our business, and
the increasing calls upon my time during my
Western journeys, it was three years before
| agam found myself in Toledo, with sutf.
cient leisure to repeat my visit. | had some
difficulty in finding the little frame house
e. Ia Al.
i, spect number of stately brick villas" had
sprung up around it and quite disguised
the locality. The door was opened by the
same little blacll-cyed woman, with the ad-
dition Of four artificial teeth, which were
altogether too large and loose. They were
attached by plated hooks to her eye-teeth
: and moved up and down when she spoke.
is Rachel Emmons at homo 2 asked.
= The woman stared at me with evident
:, surprise.
She's dead, said she at last, and then add
, ed,-et's see;-a'n't you the gentleman that
9 called here, some three or four years ago !?
. Yes, said |, entering the room; i should
;, like to hear about her death
. well, - pdS rather queer. She was
: failin' when you was here. After that she
: got softer and weaker-like, an didn't have
= her deathlIke wearin' sleeps so often, but
u ohO NOh' JuSI 40 l'iob lpl ull tllot' hN wv
tor said twas heart-disease, and the nerves
!, was gone too; so he only give her morphy
i and sometimes pills, but he knowed she d
! no chance from the first. Twas year ago
!, last May when she died. She'd been con,
- fined to her bed about week, but I'd no
: thought of her goin so soon | was settin
. up with her, and twas little past midnight
: maybe. She'd been layin' like dead awhile
: an was thinkin' could snatch nap be-
6 fore she woke. All t onst she riz right up
! in bed, with her eyes wide open, an her
f face lookn' real happy, au' called ont, loud
. and strong, Farewell, Eber Nicholson fare
well! I've come COR the last time There's
:, peace for me in heaven, an peace for you
o on earth! Farewell! FAREWELL Then she
). dropped back on the piller, Stone-dead.-
!, Shed expected it, 'tseems, and got the doc
a tor to write her will. She left me this house
Il and lot,--l'm her second cousin on the moth
! cr's side,--but all her money in the Savin's
: Bank, six hundred and oeventy-nine dollars
!, and half, to Eper Nicholson. The doctor
4 writ out to Illinois. an found he d gone to
- Kansas, a year before. So the money S il
! bank yit; but spose he'll git it, some time
u or other
g AS returned to the hotel, conscious Of
II a melancholy pleasure at the news of hel
3 death, ! could not help wondering Did he
Il hear that last farewell, far away in his Kan
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