The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-10-11


chored off that huge rock. They saw all
that was TO be seen in the shape of the for
tifcations, &C., and among the other places
that they were taken to visit was the bury
ing ground set apart for strangers who were
/ no Roman Catholics Mary Livingston,
who had been, so they afterwards recol-
I Iected, silent and apparently prs-occupied
all that day, when she first caught sight OF
the cemetery started, and seemed surprised;
after they had looked about Them, and la
mented the general untidiness that pre-
vailed, she suddenly asionished them all
by walking 10 one corner of ground more
elevated than the rest, whese she stopped,
and planting her foot on certain spot ssid
she was going to relate curious dream she
had bad during the previous night.
''She dreant, she said, first that she was
lying in the cabin of the yacht sick almost
unto death that her husband a1d sister,
standing by, seemed, BY their actions and
gestures, TO imagine that she was dead; but
though she was conscious of what was taxi
ing place, yet she was utterly unable 20
move hand or foot, or TO make any sound TO
aitrac: their attention in the second part of
Ter dream she seemed to be carried on
mems shoulders, still perfectly conscious,
along The roa d they had just traversed, that
she passed by their aid into the cemeuy,
and that the men deposited their burdsn on
the very spot where she then stood-a grave
had been dug, appearenily for her. she sup
posed, and she was buried, so il seemed 10
her in her dream, alive, hut motionIess and
powerIess 10 help herself in any way. The
horror OF her situation, as she was being
lowered into the earth, seemed 10 give her
strength, and in the scl of striving 10 cry out
she awoke What seemed so curious TO her
was, that though she had never seen the
battle-ground before, or the road that led
10 Il, yet, when she came 10 visit them the
day after her dream, she found thstthe re-
ality was just exactly like the dream"
"IVeil, bui,' interrupted, 'you haven't
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.
''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 10 the
yaicht
"Two days afterwards, and on the even
ing before that on which they proposed
leaving Gibraltar, Mary Livingston was sud
denly taken i'll doctor was al once sent
for, who pronounced her attack TO be
slight one OF cholera, assuring her friends al
the same time that they need not be under
any apprehension of danger. Next day,
however the symptoms changed for The
worse, and so rapidly, that before evening
il was evident she was sinking FAST, and that
no hopes could be entertained of her recov-
cry. She died during the night. Her hus-
band, as you may imagine, was overcome
with grief, bot he had 10 slide his feelings,
and settle all things connected With her fu-
neral, which was obliged TO take place on
the evening of the very day after she died.
Gall, as was told afterwards, happened
according 10 that dream of hers che was
carried along that sleep road, and her grave
had been dug on the very spot where bat
few days ago she had stood before them full
OF life and beauty; but strange 10 say ,and al
most incredible, neither, her husband nor
sister remembered The circumstance of her
relating her dream TO them and it was not
until some six or seven months afterwards.
that one evening in the twilight of their
Yorkshire home, the memory OF the stroll
through the battle-ground and the event
connected with il flashed across the mind OF
the widowed husband Remorse at the
thought af its being now all to late was his
first feeling, and then an irrep:essib lie desire
seized him-a longing to see if his darling's
dream had come trne, and if she bad in re-
alty, been buried alive. AS fast as it was
possible for him to do So he hurried 10 Glib
ral:ar; il was with some difficulty that he OBJ
tanned permission 10 have the ground opeE-
eG, and ~hea be had succeeded he found
that his worst fears had been realized; there
was no doubt left in his mind that his vile
had recovered consciousness after she had
been supposed TO be dead for the body was
turned partly on one side, as if with the eff
fort trying 10 free itself from the icy grasp
o! The tomb. From the date OF that discoF-
cry, he has never ceased 10 reproach him
self for being in some part the cause OF her
deaih but be has never ceased TO wonder
how il was that the recollection Of that dream
OF hers passed SO quickly from his mind,
and was not revived iIll go long afterwards.
'The grave he told me, is marked by a
white cross of marble, with the initials M.
L." on il and the date of her Gealh."
The tale of our hostess was finished and
as she ended, the memory of that grave