The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-08-31

all had a great desire to visit Malta and
Gibralter and moreover if possible to
land in Africa-the latter, l believe,
merely that they might have the satisfac-
ton of saving that they had once been
there. Gibra.ter was to be the first place
on the list, and accordingly after expert
encine rather rough voyage, which
tested their capabilities as sailors to
considerable extent they found them
selves anchored off that huge rock -
They saw all that was to be seen in the
shane of fortifications, &c, and among
other places they had taken to visit was
the burying ground set apart for strang
ers who were not Roman Catholics.
Mary Livingston, who had been, 50 they
afterwards reeollected, silent and ap-
parently preoccupied all the day when
she first caught sight of the cemetery
started. and seemed surprised After
they had looked about them and lament
ed the general untidiness that prevailed.
she suddenly astonished them all by walk
ino to one corner of, the ground more
elevated than the rest. where she stopped,
and. planting her foot on certain spot,
said she was going to relate a curious
dream that she had had the previous
night.
..Shc dreamed, she said, first she was
living in the cabin Of the yacht SICK al
most unto death; that her husband and
sister, standing by. seemed, by their ac-
tions and gestures to imagine that she
was dead but though she was all thlS
time conscious of what was taking place.
vet she was utterly unable to move mana
or foot, or to make any sound TO attract
their attention. In the second part OF
her dream she seemed to be carried on
mems shoulders. still perfectly conscious,
along the road they had just traversed,
that she passed by their ald into tue
cemetery, and that the men deposited
their burden on that very spot where
she stood \ grave had been dug, ap-
parently for her, she supposed. ana she
was buried, so it seemed to her In her
dream. alive, but motionless, and pow
erless to help herself in any way Inc
horror of her situation, as she was beihS
lowered into the earth, seemed TO give her
strength, and in the act of striving to cry
out. she awoke. What seemed curious
to her was that, though she had never
seen the burial ground before, or the spot
that led to it, vet when she came to visit
thers the day after her dream, she found
that the reality was exactly like the
dream"
well, but" interrupted, you have mt
told us anything yet that
Excuse me-" replied our hostess.
..but if You will do me the favor of wait
ing till l have finished my story you VIII
haveno reason to complain.
"Her husband and friends laughed at
Mary for her evident belief in her dream,
and ascribed the whole circumstance to
indigestion they did not, however, stay
much longer in the cemetery, but return
ed to the yacht.
Two davs afterwards, and on the
evening before that on which they pro
posed leaving Gibralter, Mary Living,
stou was suddenly taken i'll. A doctor
was at once sent for. who pronounced
I her attack to be a slight one of cholera
/ assuring her friends ut the same time that
they need not be under any apprehensions
of danger Next day, however, hei
symtoms changed for the worse, and Sc
RAPIDLY that before evening 1t was EVIL
dent that she was sinking very last, ans
that no hopes could be entertained o
recovery. She died during the night
Her husband, as you may imagine wa
overcome with grief, but he had TO stlh'
his feelings. and settle all things connect
ed with her funeral, which was Obliged
TO take place on the evening OF the da,
she died.
..All, as I was told afterwards, hap
pened according to that dream OF hers
She was carried along that steep road
and her grave had been dug on the yer,
spot where but a few DAYS ago she ha
stood before them full of life and beauty
But strange to say. and almost lncredibit
mother her husband nor her sister, re
Al. I'm n
latino her dream TO them and 1t wa
not till some six or seven months aitel
wards that one evening, in the twiligt
of their Yorkshire home, the memory c
the stroll through the burial ground an
the event connected with it flashed acros
the mind of the widowed husband. R'
morse at the thought of its being now a
too late. was the first feeling. and the
an irrepressible desire seized him
longing to see if his darling's dream ha
come true. and if she had in reality. bee
bured alive. As fast as it was possib
for him to do So he hurried to Gibraltel
If was with some difficulty that he o
tanned permission to have the graz
onened. and when he had succeeded
found that his worst fears had be,
realized
There was no doubt left in his mil
that his wife had recovered consciou
ness after she had been supposed by
TO be dead for the body was turn
I partly on one side, as if with the etfo
of trying to free itself from the icy gra
Of the tomb. From the date of II
discovery he has never ceased TO
proach himself for being in some part I
eause of her death; but he has nev
ceased to wonder how it was that
:, recollection Of that dream of hers pass
so quickly from his mind. and was
revived till so long afterwards
!, Her grave. he told me- is marked
!. awhile cross Of marble. with the lnnIti
= NJ. l.. on it. and the date of her deati
The tale of our hostess was finishe
Y and as she ended the memory OF Il
= crave with its wreath of flowers and
n black graveyard came into my mil
5 and made the probability OF the sts
r more apparent to me; have told
K tale as il WAS told TO me; for myself
believe it TO be true for my readers, Il
x,,-. iaaida for themselves