The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-25
II.-Another Account.

IJ.-AnOther Account.
The thing that find it most difficult TO for
give in my husband, Lester Maverick, even after
this lapse of time, is that he too should have
joined the villagers, OF at least not have
thwarted them in saying that my poor uncle
Silas was little better than monomanlac.
He was nothing of the kind, as events have
since proved, Isuppose 1 ought TO take up the
story at the point where Lester left off, but the
truth is that, after commencing some dozen
times, and trying to state events in precou-
ceived and regular order, find that the only
way to make progress is to jot down occurrences
in the order in which they naturally present
themselves.
To begin, ther, Uncle slas was never q
monomanlac. He had been sexton for half
century, and bis seXtonship had led him into
peculiar ways of thinking; and it was better
that his originality should crop out in the
form it did so late in life than never at all.
When the last member of the last branch of the
family died out, excepting him and me, and he
discovered that we were all that were left to
each other in the world, in the way of blood
relationship, it was natural that he should
employ his remaining years in working out an
idea that had occupied him the greater part of
his life, and had, indeed, been suggested to him
by his everyday business.
What that idea was, SO mechanical, so unique,
aud so original In the invention to which it gave
biItb, find that Uncle Silas prefers telling him
self, l shall therefore say nothing more about
it, except 10 add that Uncle Silas makes it a
condition that shall copy out his manuscript
and correct such spelling punctuation, and Or
biography as may need it. That task accept
and now prepare to relate the only romance
that has ever interrupted the quietness OF my
life.
One week before the Thanksgiving day on
which l. was 10 be welded to Lesser Maverick
/ died.
There Is no doubt abo ut it. ] heard all the
friends and nelghbors, who had been hastily
summoned, say so; and since no sense bat the
sepse OF hearing was left, it was not diflicult for
me to persuade myself that l was at least in the
first stage OF death.
But l remember before the attack came on
how balmily beautiful the moraing was, like a
summer day returned, like beautiful day dead
and its spirit wandering in the midst of US.
Had l been doing anything to cause this
sudden illness, and still more sudden death?
For q long time after / came to life again
answered 10 myself, no. Then it slowly came
10 me that in reality had secretly aud silently
borne great grief on my mind for months past,
and had not let even Lester share ii. That
grief was Uncle SilaS' suspected monomana;
with perpetual assurance TO myselfths it could
not be true of him, and perpetual endeAvor,
through the grace Of God, to shield him from
ever hearing the dreadful things that were said
about him,
Night after night, hours after I had been in
bed, heard the old man in his workshop
below, which looked out upon the graveyard of
Blesberry Ckurch-old Bleaberry Church which
my grandfather built heard my uncle saw
ing, hammering, planning, and l knew what he
was about. But l knew also that any ot the
villagers who happened to be out late could see
his lamp shining through the chinks of the
shutter that shut out OF the view OF the grave.
yard by night, and would repeat with all the
.'mRlice" which they prayed against on bended
knees on Sunday the dreadiul gossip they had
set afloat about beneVoltn and innocent old
man. Had we been living in the times of the
Massachusetts witches we should have been
burned as sorcerers.
Perhaps it was all these things preying
secretly on my mind for so long time that
eliminated in one fatal stroke. was attending
to some of the usual household work, when
suddenly q faint feeling broke over me as
though my lungs bad been suddenly exhausted
of their air. tried In vain to rise aud call for
help. In making the endeavor the faint feeling
broke over me with tsnfold strength, when
caused me TO fall back insensibe in my chair.
The sense of hearing was the only sense that
recovered itself and even that was faint Bat
among the twenty voices near me the only two
cared to distinguish were those Of Lester and
my uncle, aud those heard until the last.
have been informed since that owing to the
extreme suddenness and unaccountabillty of my
attack, every known mode Of ascertainng to
certainty whether death had taken place OF mo-
was applied. The result of all these was tC
prove that was dead and heard Mrs. scanne
say, with all the uuction of believer who
thinks he has got Scripture passage nice ant
pat-I heard her say, blessed is them al
dies in The Lord, for they dee away like
bird to the mountain; but the Devi