The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-16
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yet more weakly child.
How the very presence of the comfort
able old lady seemed to bring relief and
blessing, and how the good creature brought
the deserted ones TO believe that they saw
in her the Instrument Of q mercifnl Provi-
dence, to help and comfort them in their
great extremity, We have not space to
tell The interview, though earnest was
necessarily short. For the time, Mrs. Ap-
plebee had TO hurry away. Alice detained
her for q moment, both with hands and
eyes as she asked
"But how, dear, good woman, did you
trace me out2' 90
aBless you, my dear, 1 was ,OarnedP
said the old lady, and trotted away.
That evening, in the study, Mrs. Apple
bee accorded TO the family certain expla-
nations, subsequently, embodied by Mr..
Gauntrell in the following singular state
ment t. which we beg the readers atten-
ltion
In the spring Of eighteen ffy-fve, be.
ing the second year of the campaign of
Sebsstopool Mrs. Applebee received 9
letter from her son, then lying, severely
wounded, in hospitsl,st Bslaelavs, in which
after declaring bis belief that he should not
recover, he related TO her the whole affair
OF Alice. Her name and place of abode
were, however, left blank by his manuen
-sis|the young man no donb. intending to
supply these important particulars with
his own hand. This, either from forget
fulness, increasing weakness, or from some
cause never sscertsined, had not been done,
and Mrs. Applebee was thus left without
any II to the mother and child whom, in
the early part of the letter, she was affee-
tionstely sojured to seek out and relieve.
II Was known that young Applebee had
been despatched, among q ship load of sick
and wounded, to Sontsri but here sill trace
of him was lost. The vessel, halt-disabled
on her passage had to put back to
reft and, in this interval he might
have died, IS did many others, or it is pos
sible he might have ultimately breathed
last in the hospital-wsrd at Scutari,
at a period when deaths we're numerous,
and the identity of the fever-strieken pa
tients often lost and COMPOUNDED. ll
One evening towards the close of that
anxious year, Mrs. Applebee was sitting in
the house. keepers soOm of 9 large country
mansion, near Csrleon, of which she had
taken charge in the absence of the proprie-
tor. She had had a bustling day, and,
with fatigue, dozsd and had q
dream. She thought that, while still sit
ting in her accustomed chair, the room be-
gan to fill with a whitish light, which
presently grew into amazing lustre, and
that, at its height, an impression was con-
to her, without spoken language, |
the appearance concerned her son, and
The message he had sent her.
"But what can I do, my dear ~ the
old lady had demanded, address
the light.
An answer was returned, 10 the wordless
manner before described, to the effect that
when the appearance should next recur,
the object of it Alice, would be close at
hand. b F''7
Thencefortb, the existence of Mrs. Ar
Dlebee was q condition of expectation, |
and dream. Attaching an undue
to the visions of the night, the |
good lacy trotted about in fancied obedi-
snce to them, no whit discouraged by her
dissppointments.
One night she had q siDgularly vivid
1ream of sitting in the psrlor of g temper
snee hotel, in A~bergsvenny, and seeing q
4nhueOhO yOuhS mont uhoWiso pdioi /
aid Mrs. Apple6ee, "Who said don't laugh,
m please aYou're come to be cur cook"
When / saw Mr.. Richard" with 9 courtesy
knew he was my young man."
"When 1 saw him." repeated the old
81 knew l should soon see the other,
meaning The sppsrition) also, and shortly
ind his Alice. 1 have enough, thanks be
o God, to make her comfortable, and so 1
will, only staying with you, ms'sm, as
ong as ever you pleases to want me-
sand nov my story's done, and 1 don't
hink, my dears-young ladies, / would
ay-thst you'll hear of any more ghosts
1 Grisewood Cottage"
1t is a fact that they never did-Au
Fear Round.