The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-09-04
Well may we all 10,
~ may we never zee,
That make good com pany,
Beneath the roof of Khby

/ " $500 httH ANAS ny lAb llhu LtHu re-
peated In chorus there was little al
lence, and the conversation took a
somewhat deeper tone. 1t began
through Grace asking Mr.. R4by, with
all the sithplicity OF youth, whether he
had ever seen anything supernatural
with his own eyes. For instance, said
she. this deserted church OF yours maj
you say the shepherd said lie saw on
hre-dtd you see thar
Not l. Indeed the church Ia not In
sight from here. No, Grace, I never
saw anything supernatural; and I am
sorry Tor 1t, for l laugh at peoples no
ton that a dead man has any no wer 10
Injure the living; how can cold wind
come from u disembodIed splrIlP am
all that a ghost is and something more:
and only wish could call the dead
from their graves; I'd soon have doz-
en- gentlemen and ladies' out of that cold
ch1rchyard into this very room. And
II they would only come, you would
see me converse with them us clyiIly
and US calmly as 1 am doing with YOU.
Tho fact IL, have come questions IN
put which only the dead can answer
passages In the family correspondence
referring TO things l can't make out Tor
the life OF me-
'oh, Mr.. Raby, pray DONE talk In
this dreadful way, Tor fear they should
be angry and come And Graca
looked fearfully round over her Shout.
der.
Mr.. Raby shook his head; and there
was dead silence.
Mr.. Raby broke, " rather unexpect.
eddy. But said he, gravely, III / nave
seen nothing, I've heard somelhing.
Whether 1t was supernatural, can't
say; but, at least, It was unaccountable
anu terrible. have heard THE GABRIEL
HOUNDS. '-'
Mr.. Coventry and Grace looked at
one another, and then inquired, almost
In breath, what the Gabriel hounds
were.
"a strange thing In the air that ia
said In these parts, 10 foretsll calamity, !
'0h, dear 7 said Grace, this Is thrill.
Ing again; pray tell u.s. -
We'll, one night was al Hillsbor.
ough on business, and as walked by
the old parish church, q great pack Of
beaGles, in full cry, passed close over
my hPad.' -
'Ohv o.
Yes; they startled me, as I never was
startled In my life before. l had never
heard OF the Gabriel hounds then, and
was stupehed, I think 1 leaned
against the wall there full i've minutes
before recovered myself and went on. J
oh, dear! But did anything como
You shall Judge for yourself. 1 had
left q certain house about an hour and
u half; there was trouble In that house,
but only Of q pecnnlary kind. To tell
the truth, l came back with some
money for them, or rather, 1 shonil
say, with the promise oft. found
The wife In O BwoOn; and upstairs, her
husband lay dead, by his own hand.'
'Oh, my poor godpRpa = cried Grace,
alnging her arm lenderly round his
neck. aE.,| ..|-I
'Ay, my child, and the trouble did
not end there, Insult followed; In~
gratitude, and family feud, which Ii
not healed yet, and never will be-tlll
she and her brat come on their knees
10 me-
Mr.. Raby had no sooner uttered these
last words With great heat, than he was
angry with himself. ABR said he,
The older n man gets, tho weaker. TO
think OF my mentioning that to you
young peoplel' And he rose and walk.
ed about the roomin considerable agl-
tatton and vexRtion. Curse the Ga
brlel houndsl II 10 the first time l have
spoken OF them since that awful night;
II is the last time I ever will speak OF
them. What they are; God, who made
Them, knows. Only Ipray l may never