The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-11-18

when started DrOaQ- awake, &C
tually believed that some one wa
in the room; the man who intend
ed robbery or violence. But wher
I had arisen, and lit my lamp, the
room was empty, except mysel
and Ben, who lay snoring on his
pillow.
7 went to to the door it was
Hooked. I went to the window
, the crash of rain against it's pains
i was all I heard. I even went
across the passage to my mothers
room. She was awake; there had
been no unusual sound, she was
sure.
Only a dream born of my meet.
ing the strange man in the road, l
| felt, had awakened me. [ went
to bed and fell asleep again. Again
l was awakened by the same
! words, this time shrieked in my
ear by an unearthly voice. -:..
awake up, wake up. You are
wanted at the cross roads"
/ I was on my feet once more, and
Fcaught Ben's hand as he came over
towards my bed. .> 49,.
:taWhat ails your" he cried.
Nothing" said I. "Did you
hear a voice?7 ~ -. D
sYours," said Ben, yelling woke
me up; you fairly frightened me" "
5aBen," said 1, "wait till light
a lamp; l heard another voice.
| Must be some one in the house or
outside"
So I again lit a lamp, but we
searched in vain :. -. s>-...... -
Nightmare" said B, when /
told him nay story. --..,. =. (,
: t:Ben, p said !, "what is there at.
the cross roads. =. =. I. = =.
"a house, said B. He had
lived in the neighborhood long;
/ while, and I not long. -, :. -, -.
zone little house, beside two
oak trees and a fence. An old
man lives there-a rich man, and
a bit of a miser,, they say, His
grand daughter keeps house for
him" '...- -, -. 9. ..:'s-.s:- :,
,"Ben, that fellow may have
meant harm to them. 1 may be
wanted at the cross roads" -
"Brother,no said Ben, $50 to
sleep. You had nightmare and
Ben plunged in between the blan-
Fkets, and was; snoring again. -
I also, in, ten minutes, slept as
soundly as before, but the awaken,
ing soon came again. -. j.. i
+: Iopened my eyes, to see a girl
standing at the foot of my. bed. A
/ girl in: white robes, with golden
I hair all about her shoulders, who
| wrung: her hands and cried: "oh,
wake up, you are wanted at the
cross roads" -. ~
This timeI started out Of bed,
I.bathed in a cold perspiration, I
trembled like leaf I had no
doubt: thatI had received super
natural warning. ....,.- =.
:sBen," I cried, "Ben, for the
| third time [ have been told that [
| am wanted at the cross roads, and
I am going"
" And I began to dress myself as
/ Speedily as possible, listening the
while to the storm raging wilder
land wilder than at any other Pc
riod since. it's commencement.
Ben demonstrated with me in
vain. At. last, he also began to
,huddle on his clothes.
s tIf you have gone mad, | must
gewith yon and take care of you,"
he said. :, -.
a"But fancy another man, going
out ina storm like this to the cross
roads, because a nightmare caused
him to do so, and what would you
think of him p 4, ....'
:I;said nothing. All I,could have
answered would have been:
II am compelled to go; [ must
CO. / dare not refuse, whatever
may be thought of meT
Inten minutes we were splashing
through the mud and rain along the
road. It was perfectly dark; now
and then a blazing red star in the
distance told US that a lamp was
! heamino tbrouoh the rain in some