The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-02-28

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turned to pale again in breath9sIi
You have never seen him since you
deserted pour woodland grotto !? +" II
said. .ytsi5eg rag,as. Boa z-g4hs ana
She turned to me with heart-rend
inn looL -Tof Hjua4t-
FT - Hector, loshe cried IsE See him ".
cry day. and it is that which skill,
ing me.
She burst into a passion of tears
when she had said this. / took her in
my arms as If she had been fright
ened child, and tried to comfort her.
My darling, this is madness" IL
said. You know that no stranger
can come to you in the pleasaunce.
The moat is ten feet wide and always.
full of water, and the gates are kept.
locked day and night by old Mason.
The chatelaine of a medieval fortress
need fear no intruder in her antique
garden.
My wife shook her head sadly.
I see him every day." she said.
On this | believed that my wife was
mad / shrank from questioning her
more closely concerning her mysteri-
Gus visitant Itwould beill, | thought,
to give form and substance to the
( shadow that tormented her by too
close inquiry about its look and man.
ner, its coming and going.
H / took care to assure myself that
mo stranger to the household could
by any possibility penetrate to the
I pleasaunce.s Having done this, | was
/ fain t6>Eaitlthe coming 1Of 7he pHys-I
He aeame at last. I revealed to
him the conviction which was my
misery. [ told him that | believed
my wife be mad. saw her
sspentssans hour alone sWithp shenzanH
y on -eieaalaa ltaa1ne b To my uliS pes ka-
bic relief he Assured me Of her sanity.
rs siiItisju just possible thatsshe may be
affected by one delusion. he Said;
;, but she. is so reasonable. upon all
other points that Lean scarcely bring
myself to believe her the subject of q
mon6mauia. I am rather Inclined to
think bhaf she really sees the person
ofBh6m she speaks She described
him to me with a perfect miRuteness.
The descriptions of scenes or individ-
uals given by. patients afflicted with
monomania are always more. or less
disjointed but your wife spoke to me
as clearly and calmly as | am now
speaking to you Are you sure there
is no one who can approach her in
that garden where she walks?"
| am quite Sure.
Is there any kinsman of your
steward, or hanger onzof your house.
hold-a young man with fair woman
ish face, very pale, and rendered re-
markable by "a crimson scar, which
looks like the mark of a blow2"
My God!" / cried, as the light
broke in upon me all at once q" And
the dress-the strange old-fashioned
dress?" j
The man wears hunting costume
of purple and orange" answered the
doctor.
| knew then that Andre de Brissac
had kept his word, and that in the
hour when my life was the brightest
his shadow had come between me and
happiness.
/ showed my wife the picture in the
library, for [ would fain assure my
self that there was some error in.Iny
fancy about my cousin. She shook
like a leaf when she beheld it, and
chung to me convulsively baH q
This is witchcraft, Hector" she
said. 1.-The dress in that picture is
the dress Of the man I see in the
pleasaunce; !. but the face is not, his 7
r. Then she described to me the face
OF the stranger, and it was my cousins
face, line for line-Andre De- Bfissac,
whom she had never seen in the flesh,
Most wildly of all did she describe
the cruel mar K upon his face, the
trace Of a fierce blow from "a d 5o5pen
hand. ,.Ql IH3B5TJ q VI
!. After this ! carried nay wife, away
from Puy, bVerdua.4 We wandered
tialrT7thrQpgh the Southern. ProvinI
ces, aud into the very heartfelt Switz-
erland T thought to distance the
CHASTITY phantom, and I fondlv
hoped that, change Of scene would
bring peaceto mylwife.
lt.1 lt5was not So Go where we WguId
the ghost Of Andfe de Brissac ri.
lowed nsa 20 my eyes that fafal
shadow meyer revealed itself. THFB
would nave been too poor yenre-
ance. Lit Wasy Any iWite's innocent
heart which Andre made the instrn
mentl OF his revenge The unhoiv
presence destroyed her life. Nv cor
Slant companionship could not Shield
her from thelhorrible Intruder. in
vain did / watch her; in vain dbl
strive to comfort her. u or
" He win not let me be at peace,
shessaidySTS he lcomes between us,
hrldr hna hnnaaa .tad ~. r4II-aann !