The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1868-02-13
THE WARNING VOICE.

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THE WARNING VOICE.
Capt. B. Of tho-ih Regiment of
the line, msrieda near connection of
the nouotor. After the ceremony the
pair left London for small seaport
town, in which they had resolved to pass
the honeymoon, The beautiful scenery
/ Of the noighborhood tempted them to
longer daily rombes. and one night,
much hdgaed, they bad redmd some.
what eailier Than common, when Mrs.
B. was suddenly aroused from m
inciPioal doze by a confused light in the
room, which presently became iOteosi-
GCd to an almost painful degree, No
unusual object was visible; but a voice
proceeding from the foot Of the bed, ut,
tered in low but perfect distinct accents,
these words
in three years you will be widow
Much alarmed, Mrs. B renewed
the efforts she had already made to
awaken Captain B but in vain.
As the light died gradually away, her
courage returned, and she felt inclined
to rejoice that he had been spared hear,
ing this strange prediction, Resolving
to conceal it from him. she nevertheless
wrote the next to day TO her mother.
Lldy--,and related all the particulars,
Time passed, aud the spring Of the
third year rou1l the BIS at Halifax,
preparing to embark for England, the
passage money, sixty pounds, having
been aIrOady paid. On the night before
their intended departure, Mrs, B
had dream, in which she thought that
she was pacing, with her husband, across
vast plain. lie hurried her for.
ward so fast and incessontly, that she
became alarmed, Night was approach.
ing. Suddenly sho withdrew her arm
from her husband, when the latter,
darling wildly forward, was lost TO sight
in a sort OF rushy swamp that lay in the
centre Of the pnin-the rushes waving
and bending over the spot in which he
had seemei to disappear.
Awakened by the shock Of What Efl
happened, she was conscious of the mys
teriou, light in the room, and recognized
the voice she had formerly heard, as it
announced
The tllirl yea! has come
In the morning she told her husband
that she had had avery unpleasant dream,
which had lsr! upon her mind a strong
preSentnent that some evil would attend
their proposed journey, and earnestly
entreated him to transfer the passage 10
a much larger aud better ship, which
would sail in q months time.
The money having, however, been
paid, this arrangement was found i'm
practicable, and they sailed as originally
intended Nothing important happened
until the voyage was nearly completed
when one morning Capt, B.. hilher.
to in perfect health, was stricken with
paralysis. There was 40 medical man
on board, and the suifeer, on reaching
England, was conveyed on shore in an
almost hopeless condition.
Contrary to expectation. he rallied
considerably. and Mrs. B. was bO.
ginning to feel more ot case respecting
him, when one day, after dining with ap.
petite and cOnvsrsing with unusual ami
nation, he remarked that he felt little
tired, and would lio down on the sofa
He did so, and slept.
AS his vile sat wotchiogh his tranquil
features. the remembrance flashed into
her mind that this was the actual ami,
vorsery Of their marriage. She stopped
over to kiss him 10 aiFec,ionOtO commem.
Oratiou, but started back in terror, A
change had come in the sleepOFs face.
He was dead!
MATRIMONIAL ADVICE.