Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-11-30

walking away from me, but straight along
the path | was pursuing. Then | recovered
my presence of mind and called after him
| III vain | implorcd, imprecated, and threat.
ened to fire if he did not stop but on he
went steadily, though quickly, without ap.
pearng to hear me. | then urged my harse
| (who had recovered from his fright, into a
canter and pursued, but could not gain ON
my extraordinary fellow traveller the fas
ter | cantered and even galloped the faster
he went but he never ran, his movement
was always long steady stride. After a
pursuit of about ten minutes, | saw the SEN
! try OF the outpost at the pass Of the hills
leading to our camp standing directly in
the path tn figure was pursuing loudly
called to let no one pass. | saw the sen
| try bring his musket to a charge when the
| apparition was within thirty yards or 50
of him, heard his cry, Turn out the guard. ;
The men who were lettering near fell in al
most nstantaneously and quite closed the
pass in the rocks when the figure appeared
TO fade away. | hastened forward and
asked the sentry:
Did you see man walking in front of
me ?"
No SIR was the answer, "no one has
been past here to night since we mounted"
Why did you turn out the guard ~
said |.
Because | saw you galloping and call
ing out, sir, and thought you were being
chased by Cinnamon"
"The sergeant and other soldiers fully
confirmed the sentrys assertion that 40
person had passed their post and as
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ply said | supposed had been mistaken,
and rode into camp without seeing any
thing more Of the figure of Granger"
did you drink much wine at dinner,
Houghton 2" here inquired Random.
" No upon my honor, all drank that day
was one glass of rum-and- water, and that
early in the afternoon. | never did drink
much of anything in the East for the sake
of health and that was perfectly sober
at the time of the occurrence all my broth
er officers could testify"
" Do you ever see it again ?" asked some
one almost acknowledging by the form of
his Interrogation, that the story had told
on him
" | soon got over the effect Of that deIu-
sion, which believe it must have been, al
though | cannot account for it, resumed
Houghton, but | received another shock
when we were well on the road into Pekin,
about two months afterwards, and the En-
glish mail arrived ! was away for a day
or two from my own regiment when the
letters came, and did not receive my own ;
but in the papers which came to the regi-
ment was quartered with, | read that
Charles Granger had died on the very day
| had thought | had seen him at Talien
Bay. A day or two afterwards my own
letters came to me. One was in Mrs. War
borOugh's hand writing. She was writing,
she told me, to give me the particulars Of
the death ofpoor Charles, my old felIow-pu-
pill, who had been cut off so suddenly, which
she had heard from his relatives He had
been dining at public dinner at Vienna,
when suddenly he fell forward sensccss,
having broken a blood vessel The blood
poured in torrents over his shirt, and he
had bled to death, without speaking word,
before medical aid could arrive She then
gave the hour and day of his death. Al
lowing for the difference of time which ex-
lists between Northern CHINA and Vienna
Charles Granger had died in Vienna, al
most to a minute, at the very time fancied
| saw him on the plain of Chinese Tartary"
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