Delaware State journal and statesman., 1867-12-17
somNAmBUL1sTIo ADVENTURE.

somnambulisiics are guilty of a great
many curious freaks, while great many are
attendant with danger, and still others al
ford the ground for lots OF fun. We heard
related last evening, an instance that is said
TO have occurred not hundred miles from
Quincy, Illinois The narrator would not
give US the real names, but they are not re-
ouired for the pith of the story. A lady
and a gent figure as the principals, and the
story rivals the original opera whose name
heads this article. The lady and gentleman
10 question had been, up to the hour OF the
occurrence, for long time betrothed and
were only waiting for favorable opportu-
ritv TO come around, when the twain
would be made one flesh. or thereabouts.
The lacy is a somnambulist 'ofthe highest
order,n very beautiful, very romantic, and
much addicted to the habit of novel reading
About month ago the lady and her lover
tad spent the evening together and had
repalaied at nm carly hour, the gentleman
ie.jai.jng 10 bis room, some two blocks OIL,
end was coon sound asleep, dreaming of the
fair being who would 90 soon be his. She,
in her still chamber, by her midnight lamp,
pored over the precious pages OF the latest
new novel, investing, doubtless, the hero
lover with the form and features of him
who was all in all to her, till at length
Urhe bad all killed and the gnod all pleased
| Ber thirsty curlosity appeasedi
he shuts The DEAR geSi book, that made her weep,
Puts out the light and turns away TO Sleep"
But ere the "balmy messenger" has CONT
to her pillow, imagination again wanders OF
the SCIENCES so lately presented, the variou
actors started from their hidings anew, whit
her ideal heroine becomes identified will
herself and she arises. A drawer close b.
contains those hidden and delicate mysteries
so carefully prepared for use during tn
honeymoon, and re-robing herself, she start
out, aud carefully treading the distance tina
lntervened between her own house and tina
! of her lover, she reaches the door, and her
g comes the mystery. How gained she &C
: mittance? But certain it is she did. Sh
e enters the chamber of her afflanced, gentl
/ she lies down beside him, and presently nc
It a sound is heard save the steady and eve
n breathing that betokens sound and health
repose.
Daylight came at last, and as all thin
IS must have an end, so did this sweet sleep
d innocence and beauty. A. shrill shrek burs
e. ON the morning air The gentleman jun
70 from the bed and stares In alright, thinkii
lie he is oppressed by some horrible nightmaI
re He sees the pillow where two heads ha
III lain pillowed during the night, and behol
n the terrified object of his love robed In
tn elegant Cham5re de mutt, her. heart palpit
IN ing with thousand throbs of wonderme
he and horror. "How came ! hereG" at ]
At broke from her lips. The words broui
in the young man to his senses, and he reali1
m, his position, his dishabille, Mrs. Grun'
di- and squatting down on the floor by the
all of the bed, his head just protruding abo
an explanation followed: whats to
in doneP" With quickness of thonght
.st, conceived how by one grand coup de m
The to silence suspicion and make all right I
Om ing the lady to be quiet few moments
MT hastily dressed, rushed frantically to
ter house of the county clerk, told him the
hat cumstances, got license, sought preacl
our and returned in less than an hour, and t
lied were married-the lady in her night'go
and and he in slippers, pants and night 81
,Wn That's the story as we heard it.