The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1866-06-21

ready ~ Uau Tule-VcTy Dau! Dut Wna'
makes you so paleP
Am pale p muttered Shirley.
'Yes-as pale as if you had seen the
chariot 1Oith tile beadtess horses! laughed
the Colonel
Shirley started
The second = came in hoarse lnurmul
from his lips.
'What-what-Jam What did you
say, my boy +? ...-....
Nothing, sir hope you are well, and
that will find you as well on my return.
All, yes you go tomorrow you must
positively come in and dine. You can't
Yon have business Hang business, say
or would have said a fortnight before my
marriage But you will spend the evening
with us Yes Well, come early p
And the old Colonel stumped into the
house.
The second = muttered Shirley again,
with a strange expression in his eyes, as he
went back to his Office.
He spent the evening at Col. Weston s,
and then the rest of the family retired he
being left alone with the young lady, who
continued to converse with him until past
midnight What occurred during this in.
terview is not known, but it was afterwards
observed that Pauline carefully avoided any
allusion to it, No one saw her after the in
terview, on that night but on the next
morning all the roses in her cheeks had ia
ded
The state of Shirleys mind after the
conversation was better known. A sort Of
busybody of the town who spent his time
in collecting and disseminating 'news'-that
is, gossip-of every imaginable description,
happened to be returning home after mid
night. Seeing light in Shirley's office, be-
hind which as his bed chamber. the busy
body conceived desire to ascertain what
kept the young lawyer up so late No rules
of ceremony restrain such people The bu.
sybody coolly entered, and asked where
whom he had but light &C
quaintance--was going
The reply of the young man, according
to the report of his visitor subsequently,,
was rough.
TO make a journey !!
4 see, said the intruder, but where ? to
the low country, | suppose p
Yes sir 7 came still more curtly than be-
fore.
On business ?
On business sir =
A slight color began to tinge the pale
face of Shirley. The persistence annoyed
him.
We'll, said his visitor, 4 see you are bu-
sy, and | won't intrude Preparing for
marriage, suppose am told the old Col.
lionel is delighted, and Miss Pauline is the
beauty Of the country. In splendid health,
too. That is great thing in marriage,
Mr.. Shirley. have known her from child
she never had day of sickness. You are
going away tomorrow !?
Yes SIR
We'll, well pleasant Journey
And the busybody left the Office, Shirley
continued to pack his valise, for his journey
was to be made on horseback.
Suddenly the head of the busybody was
again thrust in.
4 forgot he said
Forgot what, sir P
TO say that you will miss old Tom
Briggs funeral it will be grand affair
he was formerly Sheriff, ard very popular.
He died to night. They said hewould live
knew he would not | saw the chariot and
horses.
Saw whatT exclaimed Shirley, turning
round. za
The chariot with the headless horses. -
In dream last night saw them as plain
as | see you, drawn before his door. Did
you never hear the legend
And the busybody was returning quickly
into the apartment, when Shirley abruptly
exclaimed, L have heard it good night, sir
~ 81, tho ~ &c e.
AS the door closed, the visitor heard Shir-
ley fall into chair, and utter, with spe-
cies of groan, the singular words:
The third y
The busybody took his revenge by de.
declaring subsequently to all the neighbors
that the young lawyer must have some
thing on his mind'-his face was as livid
as corpse and his eyes looked wild
On the next morning Shirley set out for
the low country and i'll three or four days
reached his home without accident.
On the day after his arrival he received
a letter from Pauline-loug, loving, so full,
indeed, of evidence of her affection. that it
made his pale face flush. He had already
writtten-their mutual promise had been to
y rite every day.
Two other letters came Pauline Then
they stopped. Shirley wrote daily--no an
sWers came.
The effect Of this upon the young man
was frighttul The darkest forebodings
seized upon him, rendering him almost inca
pable of attending to the business of his Jour
ney. The great irregularity of the mails at
the epoch gave him a faint glimmer of con
ISOLATION ). but as day after day wore on.
and no more letters came, be abruptly ter
his arrangements, sprung upon his
horse, and set out rapidly for S which by
hard riding he reached before midnight on
the second day-the 18Th Of Novem6er.
Three months after these events he was
dead. Those who held his dying form in
their arms heard him describe in faint muir
murs all that happened to him after com
ing in sight of the town.
3 AS he approached the village, he said, a
deeper and deeper gloom oppressed him; a
more profound foreboding seized him. a
huge black shadow, like the wing of some
gigantic bird of the night, seemed to draw
toward him from the far horizon the
strange dim shape fitted by him in the
night. The moon had risen like a great
bloody disc, bathing the bleak forest in it's
solemn ana mysterious hight low moan
ing breeze from the Potomac detached ono
by one the least leaves from the Autumn
trees and this wind from the great river.
as it passed on, seemed to the startled ears
of Shirley like the sob of host of unseen
mourners accompanying some invisible
cortege to the grave. -.-e
What follows is given upon his own state
ment. Entering the town at a gallon he
pressed on through the deserted streets,
drew up in front of his Office, threw the
bride over the fence, and hastened toward
Colonel tWestons sEtrE
AS he turned the corner leading to the
house of his bride, be remembered looking al
his watch, il aoas tDenfy-sight MINUTES past E.
le0en. Hurrying on he emerged from beneath
a long row of overshadowing trees, nearly
stripped of it's foliage, COLONEL Weston's house
was then not more than hundred yards
distant when suddenly he reeled and stag
gered against the trunk of one of the trees