Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-09-07
VOLUME XVI.

the progress Of their love affairs had not
much to do with the gist of my story, it is
enough for me to say that everything went
on very satisfactorily, and that in due
course, and on the same day, Mary and
/ Florence becameThe wives of my two cOus-
ins, Charles and Frank respectively. Mary
was the eldest sister, though Ut the time OF
| their marriage she was barely nineteen,
! and, to my mind, the most taking and love-
able Of the two. OF course, Frank thought
differently, and perhaps it was as well he
did so.
| need scarcely tell you that the happy
couples passed their honeymoon very pleas
antly in visiting various spots in England
and Scotland ard afterwards settled down
a few miles from each other in close prox-
unity to the city of York itself
The marriages happened in the spring
of the year, and in the following autumn,
much to the delight of the two brides, it
was determined that yatch should be
chartered for a few months, and the winter
spent III cruising about from place to place.
Their ideas chiefly pointed towards the
! Mediterranean, as they one and all had a
great desire to visit Malta and Gibralter,
| and moreover, if possible, to land in Africa
the latter, | believe, merely that they
might have the satisfaction of saying that
| they had once been there Gibralter was
| to be the first place on the list, and accOr-
| ding ly, after experiencing rather rough
voyage, which tested their capabilities as
| sailors to a considerable extent, they found
| themselves anchored off that huge rock.
| They saw all that was t. be seen III the
shape of Notifications, &C. and among
other places that they were taken to visit
was the buryng-ground set apart for stran-
gers who were not Roman catholics. Mary
Livingstone who had been, so they after
wards recolIected, silent and apparently
preoccupied all that day. when she first
caught sight of the cemetery started, and
seemed surprised After they had looked
about them and amcntcd the general unit
diness that prevailed she suddenly aston
| ished them all by walking to one corner of
| the ground more elevated than the rest,
where she stopped, and, planting her foot
on a certain spot said that she was going
| to relate a curious dream she had had the
previous night.
She dreamed, she said, first that she
was lying 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 this time
| conscious Of what was taking place, yet
she was utterly unable to move hand OF
| foot, or to make any sound to attract their
attention. In the second part Of her dream
she seemed to be carried on mems shoul-
dcrs, still perfectly conscious, along the
road they had Just travelled that she passed
| by their aid into the cemetery, and that the
men deposited their burden on that very
spot where she then stood. \ grave had
been dug, apparently for her, she supposed,
and she was buried, so it seemed to her in
her dream, alive, but motiOnless, and pow
erless to help herself in any way. The
horror of her situation, as she was being
lowered into the earth seemed to give her
strength, and in the act of triving 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, yet, when she came to visit them
the day after her dream, she found that the
reality was exactly like the dream"
Well, but" | interrupted, you hav'nt
told us anything yet that"
Excuse me-" replied our hostess, but
if you will do me the favor of waiting till
have finished my story you will find you
will have no reason to complain"
Z" Her husband and her friends laughed
at Mary for her evident belief in her dream
and ascribed the whole circumstance to in
digestion they did not, however, stay
much longer in the cemetery, but returned
to the yacht.
Two days afterwards, and on the even
ing before that on which they proposed
leaving Gibralter, Mary Livingston was
suddenly taken i'll. \ doctor was at once
sent for, who pronounced her attack to be
a slight one of the cholera, assuring her
friends at the same time that they need not
be under any apprehension OF danger.
Next day, however her symptoms changed
for the worse, and so rapidly that before
evening it was evident that she was sink
ing very fast, and that no hopes could be
retained of her recovery. She died during
the night Her husband, as you may I'M
aginc was overcome with grief, but he had
to stife his feelings, and settle all things
connected with her funeral, which was OBJ
lged to take place Oh the evening of the
very day after she died.
"All, as | was told afterwards, happen
ed according to that dream of hers she
was carried along that steep road, and her
grave had been dug on the very spot where
but few days ago she stood before them
full of life and beauty. But, strange to
say, and almost Incredible, neither her hus-
band nor her sister remembered the circum-
stance of her relating her dream to them
and it was not till some six or seven months
afterwards that one evening, in the twi
light of their Yorkshire home, the memory
Of the stroll through the burial ground and
the event connected with it flashed across
the mind Of the widowed husband. Re
morse at the thought of its now being all
too late was his first feeling, and then al
irrepressble desire seized him-a longing
to see if his darling's dream had come true
and if she had, in reality been buried alive
: AS fast as it was possible for him to do so
he hurried to Gibralter it was with some
1 difficulty that he obtained permission t.
. have the grave opened and when he hac
| succeeded he found that his worst fears
r had been realized There was no doub
e left in his mind that his wife had recovered
2 consciousness after she had beer supposed
/ by all to be dead, for the body was turned
e partly on one side, as if with the effort t
t free itself from the icy grasp Of the tomb
I From tho date of that discovery he ha