Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-02-01
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tone OF the young EAEAf Aau 10 AFTER
native but to submit. 1t was in vain
that he passed oyer his mind the
ghosts that had been seen in the
neighborhood of the sepulchre. the
witches who had been watched manu-
featuring their unguents and charms
at the very spot, and the sabbaths that
4 were occasionally held there. Altho'
Giles was any thing but courageous,
still be was so much in love that he
accepted the terms, and promised to
fulfill them without saying any thing
about them to any one. Perhaps he
comforted himself By thinking that, if
groups of sinister looking and gro
tesquely- dressed persOnages had been
seen there, it might after all have been
I gIpsles, with whom at that epoch the
forests of Luxemburg and Limburg
were infested.
About quarter of an hour after
ward Wenceslas Stroobant came in his
turn Gertrude received him very
/ graciously- He was handsome, aud
/ he was rich and, vain Of these two
advantages, he was not wanting in self
I sUficiency.
''It is not your fortune that tempts
me. said Gertrude.
! Wenceslas made a bow, and then
4 puffed himself up, n the attitude of
/ man who says to himself, / under
stand; we have other attractions"
My heart Is totally disinterested, "
| continued Gertrude, and / will will
lingly give you my hand if you will
/ render me a service which shall prove
at the idea of the commission, but
still more terrified at the idea of los
/ ing his mistress.
You can come back at midnight
/ But not a word of what has been said
that is the price Of my hand. !"
/ Weneeslas, sitting his nocturnal ap-
/ pTehensions, sWore that he would be
/ discreet. that he would be at his post
/ at half past nine, and that he would
/ keep such good watch over the dead
that not even the bats should come
near.
! A very brief time had elapsed before
Lambert van Moll made his appear
anee also, to pay his homage. He
/ to me your worth.
"Speak," said the handsome young
man I am at your orders in all mat
/ ters
I'm that case, 1t is my duty to in
/ form you that one of our relatives has
been killed in a duel. Active steps
are being taken. to secure him a re-
| spectacle interment. In the mean
time his body lies near where he was
slain in the old Roman tomb. As
/ this sepulchre is much exposed, I
would ask you to 90 there at half past
nine this evening.
What to the tomb where the
witches hold their sabbath ? What
| fancy p
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81 am not afraid. But what strange
commission you give me r
"a fancy, perhaps, as you say Yeti
can not entEusb tho execution OF 1t TO
any one who is not devoted to me. No
one must know this mystery. Go there
then. at half past nine, disguised like
an angel Of light, with a torch in your
hand, The tales which are connected
with the tomb will serve your purpose.
Seeing you seated at the foot of the
/ sepulohre those who might have enter
tanned the project of robbing the dead
viii be terrified, and no one viii come
near. Do you agree p
Il agree said Wenceslas. terrified
was a young barristev, of whose future
the whole town predicted the greatest
things.
i IL IL - u LAC Al41sE y OAA AIF@ liz 7e-4NA
the eOuaette, II wish to have a proof
Of It. Neighbors whom you know, and
who are our enemies, wish to annoy
us To do this they have put dead
body into the Roman tomb which be-
| longs to the family. l wish the body
to be removed, thing you can easily
al" exclaimed Lambert, taken
aback. ..
courageous"
That is true but you give me SO
ridiculous a commission.
There will, in all probability, be /
nothing but children there to watch /
the corpse tonight To drive them /
away blackeu your face, make your |
self as ugly as you are handsome; in |
fact, disguise yourself as demon. 1t |
is a ridiculous commission, If you like; !
but 60 to the tomb at ten o'clock, carry |
away the corpes, bring 1t here, and /
expect everything from my gratitude.
Lambert van Moll felt, after all, that
it was not too much to do to win so
fair a person as Gertrude, so, ike the
other two, he promised punctuallty
and discretion.
SigismOnd dc Vietter came in his
I bUAA W lcy AAe 4EJ1 EJgGpD ~ - "a ~ANALSr
/ But when doing as she had done with
| the others, she proposed to him to
pIav his part in the projected comedy, /
/ he replied that he was at her orders IN
/ all serious matters but not for absur-
dities; childish acts, he said should
! be left for children to do. The CO.
I quette finding him so little amendable,
dropped the subject.
In the mean time, at nine o'clock
/ precisely, GILES Colin arrived at the
Roman sepulchre He had taken a
! little lantern with him, and it shook
/ It his hand, partly because the night
was very cold, partly from other causes.
After looking cautiously around, in
! the tomb and in every bush, he stretch
himself out full length In the tomb,
/ drew a sheet over him from feet to
4 head, fastened it with napkins round
/ his neck and waist, and then blowing
out the light, delivered himself up to
his reflections, which were any thing
but of an agreeable character.
Half an hour had barely elapsed be-
fore he became sensible of the sound
of footsteps coming In his direction
He raised his head and saw a myster-
ious phantom, clothed in long silver,
white robe, with blue band. the head
covered with golden stars, and the
4 shoulders loaded with two pieces Of
muslin, which foated like wings. The
apparation held lighted torch in its
hand. Poor Gillis, who had not an
ticipated such vision, sunk down to
, the bottom of the sarcOphagus, and
covered his head with the sheet
1T is an angel ?" he said to him
: self. But the angel coughed. 1t IS
} not an inhabitant Of heaven" he ad
ded. IF it is one of the people who
hold sabbath here, I shall come off
> badly"
> The angel, on its side, did not appear
TO be quite at j. his s ease; .,4 He 5.9 cast Z
! the body, but did not seem inclined to
f examine it more closely. With his
torch in his hand he at length seated