Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1867-08-09
exclaimed the bruised Die,

giles.
lamp was brought, and their astonish-
ment was great, to find, instead of blooming
maiden, rummy, bearded, bleted old man,
nothing blooming about him except bis nose
which could have yielded a bouquet of toldy-
blossoms, looking ghastly as the pale rays Of
the lamp illuminated his features.
What does this mean?" gasped the larson
"Mean? I can't tell. don't know. This
is not Pameliaf p replied the trembling Dig,
giles.
"Ian'eliai No; hardly think he would
answer to that name or any other, for that
matter" said his companion
BY this time two or three neighbors who
had been awakened by the noise, and seeing
from their windows that something unusual
was going ON in the minister's front yard,
lighted lanterns and FASTENED to the scene
Among them was a constable, who deemed it
necessary to arrest Diggles, as he could give
no satisfactory account Of how lie became pos>
sessed of the body. He was accordingly lock-
ed up for the night, the dead pauper was
placed in the minister's front parlor, and the
horse and carriage put into the barn.
Diggles was nearly crazy at the unaccount-
able result Of his elopement. He had natural
horror of dead people, and to think that he
ha11ken' riding an hour with corpse almost
distracted him, and he could uot conceive how
it happened. He was sure he had put Perme-
liza into the carriage, for she had spoken about
the lost scarf; but then he recollected that
when he returned with it, and tossed it to her
she made no reply. At length wearied with
care and anxiety, he fell asleep on the sofa.
PAMELA waited patiently for her lover to
return with the scarfe, till exhausted with the
unusual exertion of the night, she sank into
deep slumber. The students having restor-
ed the grave TO its former appearance, sought
to regain their carriage, but were little sur
prised TO find it standing some PAGES from
where they left ii but seeing the body as
they thought still, upright in the corner, they
took their seats, and drove off.
After driving about ten miles, they stopped
and taking their unconscious burden from the
carriage, bore it safely up fight Of stairs to
dissecting room, where they laid it on ia.
Bile. A dim light was burning at the time,
shedding o gloomy glimmer around the room.
The doctors were about to leave the room in
order to return the team to the stable, when
the young lady awoke, and uttered sneeze.
The dimly burning lamp just above her head
could not stand the shock, and went out; and
the students went out too,-not ''decently and
in order," but in very promiscuous manner,
and when they arrived at the bottom of the
stairs, their forms were prostrate but their
hair stood upright.
'What was that?' inquired the more timd
Of the two.
Il should say it was q sneeze,' replied the
other, who had been nearest the body when
the sternutation took place.
"Who could have sneezed?' asked the
younger.
'.There must have been some one in the
ioonu' iot d uedu mau never coulu nave uone
it. replied his friend.
After few seconds waiting they decided
to creep back to the room, and ascertain the
cause OF their alarm. One Of them had bum
die OF matches in his pocket, which he lighted
when they reached the door Of the room, the
blaze shining full on the dissecting table;
and what WIS their surprise to see, instead of
a defunct pauper, a beautiful maiden with ra-
ven ringlets and cheeks which certainly had
never been in the grave.
"Whcre ami? Oh! tell me where am II,
cried the frightened girl.
A lamp was lighted, and an explanation en-
sued. PAMELA blushed at finding her love
affairs in the knowledge of strangers, and the
students on their part were ashamed to be de,
tected in the contemplate sin stealing bolies
They besought PAMELA to keep their secret;
and she promised to do 50 provided they would
take her home Immediately, and promise that
Diggles should not suffer in case he should be
charged with stealing the corpse.
The youngest STUDENT whose name was
Charley, was delighted to drive back with the
beautiful stranger; and in due time he left
her at her fathers door. She entered as
quietly as when she left and regaiued her
chamber as the darkness Of night was giving
way to tie grey dawn.
When the mornings sun cut up its first
shine on the copper rooster which surmounted
the steeple of the First-Parish Meeting house,
it little dreamed of the shines which had been
in the peaceful yard beneath.
All were in their places except Diggles and
BILE unlocked the door in the morning was mis-
sing; an open window, with Frustrated SUM-
flowers beneath it, showing conclusively that
he was Of restless disposition, and loved to
rove. During the day Mr.. Roet received .
letter from him, in which he resigned his sit
uation in his store; and Mr.. Root could not
help feeling resigned himself when he read it.
The dead man went back to his lodgings ON
the ground-foor, and was seen no more; but
the Plumfeld children, in their search for
greens every spring, find the largest and best
landelisns on his grave.
PAMELA outgrew her love for Diggles, and
became in few months, the wife Of Charley
Leslie, the young doctor who escorted her
home on that evcntful night. Sylvester Pike
is still engaged in preparing subterranean
residences for those inhabitants Of Plum6eld