The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-06-11
TWENTY.FOUR HOURS.
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Strange Story.
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supper room my brother told Major
Deveref again that be had rever seen
such acting as In that first charade,
adding, Il am very glad We had you
to do it."
~ $50 am l." was the brief answer
But to me it was no acting: For
n momenk ksaw reelected IN the
| great glass over your side fireplace
the whole scene 1t was IN every par
ticular the counterpart of something
IL had seen befores / dare say I look
ed in earnest. 4 meyer felt more SOL
EMMY stirred / never wanted all
| the courage | could command more
than at that m0meHtS when you all
clapped and praised-us. when the
curtain dropped, by Jewel how glad
| wasl"
4" Well, now,1 am sure be is mad"
was my whisper asI refreshed myself
with a glass of wine offered calamity
by Berthe but Julia seemed to think
differently.
How strange4" she exclaimed.
I" May we not know all about 1T?
Won't you tell us2 You have no idea
how real that moment seemed. Do
tell us-tell US now"
n If you please" Major Deverel
said. So we sat down, and he began.
It is a strange story, and | am not
going tog4ry tovacceUHt forsit. | shall
leave you to d0thatA if you choose TO
try. | shall tell facts IN few words
so here / begin Some years ago 4
was, as Cons tantinopie. ] was with a
party of friends AID others joined Us.
We were all .s,on leave of one sort
or other, and readytoaeaioy ourselves
and we all messed together at "a
French tavern in the suburb called
Pera, where We lived, and enjoyed
ourselves greatly. We were a party
of nine, as nearly as | can recollect:
English, French, Irish. and Scotch;
| was the anlg Engfishman, | know
"One day | remarked that a very
intelligent Scotchman was silent, aud
apparently distressed at our dinner;
and, afterward, IwasEOH by French
friend of his, with whom / was walk
ing on the height that eyerlooks the
magnificent harbor aud the Golden
Horn, that the Ssotchman had done
a foolish thing perhaps worse, a
wrong thing, explained the French
mamie had beenzin a spirit of fun
to ask about his future eta Turk who
practiced nacroma8cy. and had come
away sad, silenE aud puzzled. 1t
was said that this soreerer, if he
was one, could show, In a sort
of vision, any moment of your future
life that your liked to ask for. But
ilif you fixed a moment IN the future
/ beyond the term of your life, you be-
Iiheld only a hideous blank-I sly
lthideous. because the blank hid IN
Feffect of the most desolating 6esc-s9-
tion ON all who beheld it. Theirs was
only darknesseaud nothingness. The
Eend of the room seemed to be gone,
and all things gone with it; and some
Estreng0 men had been said 70 have
.fainted whengthis revelation of utter
loss had been made oDthemga Such a
revelation had been suffered by our
Scotch friend. 15He had asked to see
what that moment would be on tina
day two years, and had been Unanswered
by the awful darkness | have men
toned. After a day or two, | deter
mined to go to this sorcerer, myself. ]
$ told my French friend, who tried, bu'
in vain, to dissuade me. | would no
listens He refused to go with me- s.
| took an Irishman, a general favor
lite, with me, He was called O'Neil
/ don't know why Iwent. T think
felt it would do Patterson. he Scotch
man, good -ifsa few Of us were in
similar ~pred4cament with 4mself.
z know I bad sac belief whatever il
these prophetic visions being try:e
O'Neil and | paidour v~isittothe Wis
Man on Valentines day. It was a
night, orrather an the -evening-;I
fact just before g O'clock No difi
Guilty of any kind was made. [ pu
down a gold half-sovereign for [ wa
going to do IL as cheap as [ coulC
He said, = Double that; 20
VIII require more than =one Wis
ion" | said shortly that I onl
d.. wanted one, and that O1Neil woul
be with me. He told me to take bac
the gold, for to have OfNeil with N
was impossible. [ agreed then to 9
by myself, aud we went up stairs. TIL
II man lived IN such a house as the NOR
= opulent Turks inhabit-built round
court. Whefea fountain played hzl,
/ remember that the drip of the watt
seemed. to add to the strange silenC
insthfs mans dWeIling fatfer3thadii
M ~ .dfsturh It, tEvery dr0p Was heafT Z
ar perfect1ys,si tellingI or the 9TdnaTdri
- lautpefia as the tickfug 2ofFa E6tk teF
- Of fhe isfleht passaS6 of fine v
wentaRfo1gh the court 20 getRerlb up
greaf marble stair cake, Id fhf6hE
a passagewhere the walk we're pain
= ed. and iulaid in places with ivor
Jasper and mother o. pearl.
the most tasteless, ignorant wa
y We got at last into a gre
room like a gallery, pc
" fectly dark except for a circle
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