Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1865-01-11

naturally keen and sharp, into that dark
distant corner, haunted so terribly Her
fears had not deceived her-her prescient
senses had not awakened her too soon
something there was, white and tall and
ghos.ly, that paced backwards and fo--
with noiseless step and strange, unearthlY
gesture, muttering mysterious sentences
in an unknown tongue
She turned sick with terror There
was one way ofescape, purposc'y left open,
in case the dreaded phantom should come
"a door leading into the other wing Of
the house, where Victoria. and Mites
rooms We're situated, which she had not
fastencd for the feeling of companionship
and protection it gave her, and the advan-
tage of a rear retreat it afforded should
cold hand clasp hers, or any ghostlv
yisitant hover at her bedside, as in the
authentic legends to which she had often
listened. Her worst fears had never pic
tured anything like this, however; she
was personally unharmed, indeed, as vet
but could anybody have supposed that the
9"oS' "oN " CHOOSE 10 patrol before the
very door - winch she mad intended to
escape from it?
0lhce such was the fact, there remain
ed but one alternative, and that she in
St'netiVeiy took, and IN very ecstacy of
'FiSht q"'etly rose robea herself IN tue
oresSins-5oWn ana Shippers put at her bed
side Tor such different waking IN the
morning and stealing softly to the door
leading to the gallery, drew back the bolts
she had secured with the best intentions
the night before, opened it noise'essly,
/ without moiestation from the seePtre, and
escaping INTO the hah, flew down stars
y night shone from the library, she burst
IN, ana ie J a' r""i teet lhsens'oie-
nat handsome young student looked
up from hls book nncomprehending. 1t
was not one OF the calf bound series, rich
N diagrams and figures, and illustrated
with friohtful plates, which he read so at
tentivelv before the public eve, but the
third volume Of a fashionable ro-cl. that
had caused him to burn the midnight oil
He WAS deep in the interview between
Lady Josephine and the Count Bricoue-a-
Bricque when the door opened and shut
like a thuudercIap. and behold at his feet
a bundle Of blue cashmere and n bunch
of naxen hair
This was romantic, and Paul entered
into the spirit of the thing Immediately !:
he gathered up his pretty cousin tenderly
in his arms, laid her on the sofa. and took
such measures rs occurred to him for re
viying her--but these we're not many
All his medical knowledge went out Of his
head at once-he did not remember any
Of the learned directions on page 5S4I
Vol. X, with reference to Vols. l., III.,V,
VII, and TX, for restoring patients in a
/ com atose state CT a condition Of Temporal
~ insensibility. lie opened no windows
and no veins-igncrcd the whole list of
scientific applications, and only burnt
feathers (from a peacocks tail duster)
under her nose, as he had seen his old
aunts do when the servant girls had fit,
and chafod hor cold hands in his. In the
intervals Of these ezertions he pressed his
lips to the sufferers fair eyelids' kissed
her pale cheek or a stray trcss of her fall
'n1 "''I' anu 'rantie'-.y lmpioFeu ner ."
''''i'i - me MS e'Io''s "e'o '' Ie'i7 l..
''''''i,-u' Ai'ee oPcheu hef eyes anu
spoke IN answer 70 ans imprisoned APP
pea!S 0o1 ''e0, trough m"ch was s"'d'
u u',' "'' 'e''' U'i''' upon 'iie SUBJECT
anu II was some ''iile oe'ore 'ley remem~
oe'eu 10 'e'"T 10 '"e very natural ques-
ton, "hat haa frightened her
AIico had nail forgotten and was ball
ashamed TO sa7. Inc warmth and light
ana comfort OF the hDraFy were 50 aIher-
enC from the Shastiy terrorS OF her haunt
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