New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-12

as 1t were, into a mere minute of time,
like page of print photographed to a
speck. And l may as we'll say at once
for am net prOpounding a problem for
psychologists, and therefore dismiss my
feelings-and this state of things went OF,
seriously affecting my health, until the
denoue'nent, if may call it, of the mystery.
1t was about fortnight after the inquis-
itorial breakfast that l first noticed change
in Hlngun | had watched him land he
knew it) with all the keenness of baifled
suspicion; but all had hitherto noticed
was that be appeared TO rouse himself with
an effort to do what he had previously done
with reader volition. Now, he certainly
looked i'll. There WIS iaundiced look ia
his face, which looked thinner, and his Ian
guild manner was 10 stronger contrast than
ever to his former brisk activity. l said
nothing but the doctor ian old friend)
calling one day, had him called to be ex-
amned. "Oh,n said Pills, it's clear
enough he's got spleen it's as common as
babies with these people; and he will
| probably die 1t sounds like light and
unieellng remark, but it was not SO meant,
for kinder fellow than Pills this nick.
name, of eourse) never lived, nor with
larger sympathies for his fellow creatures,
black or white. But
| Death-when we meet tha spectre in our walks
Aaws did Yesterday, and shall tomorrow
Soon grows familiar.
And this most truly applies to a country
which cholera never quits, and where the
most hateful lesson one has to learn is
familiarity with death. | remember break
fasting with a man between eight and nine
one morning, and at noon he was dead; and
on another OCCASION the first news heard
in the morning, after a bachelor party
which broke up only in the small hours
was the death OF one who had been the
merriest of us all Whether Hingun took
the medicine the doctor sent him. can not
say; perhaps l ought to have made him
take it in my presence, but did not. He
got worse rapidly, and at last bis feet and
ankles become SO swollen that he could 40
longer attend upon me, and remained al
most entirely in his bed. Atrophy super
vened, and pitlable emaciation effaced
all semblance OF bis former self As l stood
over him one m0raing, he looked at me
long and calmly, for be did not seem to
suffer and at last said slowly and family:
"Sir, 1 am dying, You have been kind
master to me, and | am bad man. What
the magistrate said that morning at break
fast was true. God forgive me, it was
that killed Roshun."
A crowd of questions rose to my lips,
struggling for utterance, but checked my
self, and said:
"Will you tell this to the magistrate ?"
Yes sir. Send for him. will confess
everything"
Like a good fellow Lawes came at once
on receipt of my imploring note.
well, Hingun," he said gently, you
have something to say to me-
| .,TL III I liz T. - At,s
will of God. She said she lc0Nld nsuer
, leaue me-
The very Words I could not help ex-
/ claiming.
Hingun then repeated the story that now
for nearly two months had been stereo-
typed in my memory, He spoke with
such difficulty that Lawes wrote as If from
, dictation, and when he finished said:
This is the story you told me that night
in your house,
Slowly shaking his head, and looking
, fXedly before him with the stare well re-
membered he gasped out, mo, no; never
. told this before to any one. See she fol
r lows me to the grave, as she said sht
would and then, as his head tell heavily
/ back on the pillow, he muttered the ex
orcism.
[ Zone word more, said Lawes, "Wha
weapon did you use p
+: Shudderiug, he hoarsely whispered :"
g had cooked the sahib dinner, and the spi
e was in my hand when the devil put the baC
- thought Into my mind; then l beoam
mad
0 Lawes looked meaningly at me, for thi
explained the nature OF the wound.
/ We left HlngUn to the care of his friend
t and co-religiOnists who had waited outsid
| fvk 10 e.,
i could ascertain, he spoke no word of BIZ
revelation to US, and who, one and all
: protested against the suspicious OF the DC
lice. He fingered for two days, and Wis
; tied him frequently, accompanied some
times by the doctor, who seemed to grow
n interested in the case, When all was owe
Il Pills remarked: "Your man had some
thing on his mind that helped to kill hin
t so rapidly
r "What!' said I, "did he tell you abou
the ghost that haunted him.
Z "Nc. But there was ghost, was there
| 1t was his high pulse and look of terro
/. that puzzled me. Now understand. Il
n lUdS frightened to death. No medicine woul
Il have saved him.,
/ Lawes and often talked it over; but
" argued with him in vain against his matter
!. of-tact decision. He had settled it tina
e Hingun had committed the MURDER that ht
Q tancied himself haunted Ga very common
< thing among natives; that either tea
a drove him to my bedside, or that he cam
d to rob me, in either case disguised as
n woman; that did not walk in my sleep
= but all actually occurred as l had de
Ia scribed. Long experience has conVineet
q me Of the habitual baseness and falsehOo
IS of natives of Hlngun's class; but that he,
e mere lad, in whom had been able to dis
v cover none but amiable qualities, was caps
. BILE of all this crime, l could not, nay,
I can not believe. Beyond his bare COZ
n fession, evidence against him was sOugt
/ in vain.
" 1t is true, it must have been some Weapo
" like the spit that inflicted the wound, bu
b daeoits sometimes are armed with a shor
slender spear, and perhaps the spit was tn
Ie nearest approach to deadly weapon Hi
N gun had ever handled. Rather, | prefe
accepting the unreal view of the mater
u He might have loved the woman, though
: doubt the possibility of keeping secret
[ criminal connection. The murder was
is great shock to bis mind, and he broode
over it till his Overwrought imagiuatio
sr created the vision, and suggested the sci
accusation. BY what afinitive force be
in came an accessory after the fact Tor the de
a lusion) I must leave to the electro-biolo
d gists. In the annals of Dreamland there ar
well authenticated records Of far strange
,e hallucinations.