Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-04-23

anu cAtiuRuteuiuB tue Cduuies, uc Caice
softly: " Fulmen Fulmen" There was
no answer.
Again he called, " Fulmen, love you.
though dead"
Immediately the candles were relighted.
and Fulmen again appeared. She threw
off her winding sheet, and seated herself in
a chair by his side. Her face had the ca
daverous paleness of the tomb her eyes
were sad +; her steps slow and painful yet
her exquisite beauty exerted the same fas-
cination over him as when sparkling with
life and yivacity.
Fulmen, / love you % he repeated, gag
ing at her with admiration.
" Yet If my hand should touch yours"
she replied, with a sad smile, you would
utter cry as you did last night; the dead
are always cold"
"Give me You hand and you will see, I"
said Ralph, extending resolutely his own.
She took it and again there came over him
the same terrible sensation as before but
be had self control enough to conquer il,
and again repeat,
/ love you !" :
A bright smile illuminated the features
of Fulmeu.
My poor friend" she said. al would
gladly believe you; but if your love would
end my suffering, it must be so profound,
so ardent, that it can conquer even the de-
sire to live. A tomb with me must have
attractions for you, and you are but twenty
FIVE. Ralph. At your age life ia sweet"
The Earl shook his head.
To live without you is death; to be
united to you, even in the tomb, would be
life."
"Take care, my friend"
"Of what, dear Fu'men ?" exclaimed
Ralph, over whom the smile of the Young
girl seemed to exercise an overpowering
fascination.
I" Do you know" she said, " that if YOU
utter such wish, God may hear your
prayer?"
"Ah, if He would An eternity by your
side would be infinite happiness"
Ralph, my FRIEND" interrupted Full
men, while a smile of celestial Joy shone in
her face, take care, you will die if you
love me-"
." wish to die"
" But you are betrothed to my sister"
An exclamation Of anger escaped him.
81 i hate her 20 he said, vehemently.
"Why"
Because she is alive, while you are
dead. What has she done that she should
eijcy the light of the sun, the perfume Of
the flowers, the melody of birdsl Wasshe
any younger or mere beautiful ?'
Ralph, you are unjust. My sister had
no control over her destiny or mine"
" You are right, perhaps but swear to
you that | will never marry Hermaine. l
wish to be yours, and only yours, forever. !"
You are mad, my friend; cannot &C
eept happiness at such sacrifice"
She rose slowly.
" Adieu, Ralph" she said. "Marry
Hermaine, and pray for me-"
t" Fulmen Fulmeni" exclaimed Ralph,
falling on his knees at her feet. DO not
abandon mel love you"
But your love is DEATH"
at is happiness 1t is life !"
His tone was so earnest, SO touching, that
the young girl hesitated.
Let me live eternally with you," be
persisted.
Listen, my friend" she said at length.
as If she could no longer resist his entreat-
les. ''In this casket," pointing to a richly
carved box which stood on the table.
there is vial containing dark LIQUID. u
and this liquid?"
sis death"
" 1t is happiness" exclaimed Ralph,
seizing the casket.
Fulmen stopped him by gesture.
:" Not yet" she said; "by and by-at
midnight-but first, reflection"
Immediately the candles were extin-
guished, and and he found himself in COM
plete darkness.
If Earl Ralph had been Frenchman, az
soon as Fulmen disappeared he would have
opened the window, and let the cool night
air play upon his brow. Then, the fever
fit being over, he would have said to him
self:
"All this is folly. / am twenty five
years old, an officer in the Kings service
and am about to marry young girl blonde
as Madonna, fair as a lily, who will bring
me an income Of one hundred thousand
iivers. l have only to be quiet, and LEI
things take their own course"
Alter which he would have slept quietly
and dreamed no more of Fulmen. Blu
Ralph was a ScOtchman, with an imapina.
ton as susceptible of exaltation as most O
his cOuntrymen are of the land Of mountain
and mist As soon as the phantom van
ished he relighted the candle by the aid O
half extinguished fire. brand, and OPENING
the casket be took out the vial.
"Fulmen Fulmen ! wait for me AN
coming" he murmured, and swallowe,
the contents at draught.
For moment he experienced straug,
and inexplicable sensation a coldpess /,
the chest /; a heat in the head then bis eve
became heavy his lips trembled an ex.
treme languor crept over him, and he SUM
upon the floor, still murmuring family =
Fulmen, wait for mel love you"
When Ralph swallowed the contents o
the vial be expected to awake in the othe
word. He was mistaken the vial con
tanned narcotic; and he was very mucl
astorished on opening his eyes to find him
self in bed, and see the sun shining through
the curtained windows. A lady sat by III
bedside. 1t was Fulmeni but no longe
the pale, sad Fulmen. with livid lips an,
form enveloped in winding sheet; bu
Fulmen, fresh, radiant, joyous, in the sam
costume she wore at the fancy ball.
The reader will understand the explana
ton OF this more readily than the youn
Earl, whose head was somewhat confuse
from the effects of the narcotic The youn
girl had wished to put the sudden passion
oil her ball room lover to the test; and wit
some difficulty she had persuaded her fon,
old father and her cousin Hermaine to lem
themselves to the mystifcation. A it'll
ingenuity, some invisible assistance,
transparent glove of serpent skin, aided b
the native superstition of the young Scotch
man. were all that were necessary to th
success of the scheme.
We need not say that the Earl, when h
recovered his senses, was very glad Il
exchange his phantom bride for a Iiyip
one."
sSA gentleman, who was never &C
cused of being a wizard, went out with hi
gun one day to shoot cartridges, accom-
panied by his son. Before they approach
ed the ground where they expected to 6r'
the game, the gun was charged with Sc
we're load, and when at last the gentleman
discovered one of the birds, he took res
and blazed away, expecting to see him fall
OF course: but not so did it happen, for th