The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-10-14

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claimed, a sudden thought striking me,
a viii send a man to paint my name
on the door and on the wall down
livery good, sir; I would do it at
once if I were you Carl was loose
fish, and if you delay it until you get
here, you might be annoyed.
/" How So? What was he?'
"Take a cigar first, Mr.. Harker,"
yoviH find no better in Liverpool
Lord! how like him you look when ]
don't see your eyes ~
"And vet have not been thought to
resemble q loose fish before, Mr.. Moss"
"I didn't mean that. Have you ne
yer seen an ugly person resemble very
handsome one =? 4 have, many time.
Well, about Carl j; he was here about
two years, and cali me Jew if i could
reckon him up. BE used to come here
about noon, and work up TO eight or
nine o'clock at night but what busi-
ness he worked at { never could IND
out. know he had big ledger, and
two or three such books but big led
ger won't make a business any more
than big caTpet-bag will, and he al
WAYS carried one. He would come and
smoke q cigar with me now and then;
but never came up here during all
that time, and he kept his door locked!
He always seemed expecting q blow,
did poor Carl, more like rat in the cor
ner than anything else, poor beggar!
Well, sir, one morning found the key
on my mat, and found the place just as
| you see it, and have never seen Carl
since. One or two queer looking men
| have enquired about him, and asked If
he was coming back, aid [ said most
likely he would, and most likely he
will" s.s 20 -15,a.s z D
"Not at all an interesting story,'' ]
| thought, and ] felt inclined to yaFFn in
| Mr.. MOss's face; but thanked him for
his information, and promised to take
possession in three days, which 1 spent
in presenting my letters introduction,
and making their arrangements for the
| prosecution of my plans.
AT length the eVentful day arrived,
| and l stood in my own Office, with my
name emblaZOned on the door and pas
! sage wall. I was waiting for friend
to call OH me, (whO, by the way, had
| promised to put me in the way of do
| ing some business that very day. and
| felt impatient for his arrival in cOnse-
| quence.
| The office was clean and tidy, and
| the floor had been well scrubbed.
Why hadn' tthey emptied the waste
| paper basket of all that lumber?
The offiee-keeper had lighted fire,
/ and took up the basket to perform the
Operation myself; but, for some cause
/ or other, / placed it on the table and
1~began idly to burn the scraps one by
| one.
/ had nearly disposed of them all
when a scrap attracted my attention,
! and / read it. 1t was torn SO as to
leave a few words intact, and it ran
thus e. a-
" Louise has given your description,
and you may rely on our finding you.
! Forward the plates at once, Or"
| Then another piece of mysterious
: paper, apparently plan Of some place
b; of other.
What did that mean? e.?
But I had no time to consider, for
my friend entered, and, putting the
two pieces in the drawer, emptied
/ the basket in the fire, and went out
with him to do a good days work.
Returning late in the evening, relit
the fire, and addressed myself to the
writing of two important letters to be
posted by f1:30 that night, in order to
be in time for the Cunard liner, which
sailed early in the morning; and then
it was that the black darkness of the
doorless room opposite me began to
| trouble me most.
1t had troubled me before, but on
] LLlS hlZut II lie IELIOlus II IOul
childhood 1 had been imaginative, and
knowing this, stirred the fire, called
myself an ass, and went on with my
letter. But not for long. My eyes
wandered to the black darkness of the
doorway, and I began to Fansack my
memory for statistics of men who could
tell by some occult power if any one
were hidden in the room they entered;
and / laughed aloud when l remem-
beTed that had read of one sensitive
gentleman, who by this same occult
sense had found q surgeons skeleton
was in a closet behind him.
own dislike being in the dark
but I will do myself the justice to say
that I have resolution enough to over.
come the dislike.
Therefore 1 proposed to myself to
very quietly walk into the dark room
which troubled me land without 6
light, look out of the windows, anC
{ slowly return.
1 went-the very first step beyond
the threshold dispelled my fears.
could see the glimmer of the starg
through the glass, hear the rattle of th'
cabs outside. Why, it was quite I
cheerful place after all.
Ha. there was shutting noise ther
by the closet, and then my fears re
turned and OverpOWered me. / strov,
to walk out like tragedy hero; bu
| my pace quickened as l neared th
door, and / heard the shutting nois
, close to me, and the next moment
| powerful hand was at my throat, AM
| helpless on the floor with the cold muz
zle of pistol to my head, [ was bOunt
and dragged into the outer office, thFus
into my chair, and confronted by tW,
] quiet-lOOking men, one of whom lait
his revolver on the table, saying at th
same time, with an ugly sneer /" So
BruntOn, we have caught you at last.
II.
The speaker was a mild, intelligen
I looking man of about thirty-five. Il
a proper drese he would have locke,
like a High Church clergyman. Hi
companion was evidently a foreigner
and [ imagine a German. He wa
about fifty years of age, and wore spec
taclesy and the prOfusiOn of hair am
l whisk s=eOvered more than half hi
: face, But he had a winning smile an
good teeth, which he often took an OF
r portunity Of showing, E1G
: We have found you at last.N
am thankful to say that i am nC
nervous when / see q danger, and
t boldly replied:
o "BIy name is Harker, and not BruT
ton; Mr.. Moss, the landlord of thes
s premises, has noticed my resemblanC
n to his late tenant, and is satisfied thu
e I am not the same. Depend upon
: that / shall make you repent this Ou
e rage" t1f
g ItFied to rise to call for help from IL
o street, but the pistol was cooked aH
) pointed at me, and that was in Il
: mans face which cautioned me again
rashness in my helpless condition.
II "IwilI sit down." replied, and he
K what you have to say; bat if I ehoO
7 to do it / shall do my best to raise {
q alarm in spite of your revolver
Ii "Vell spoke, Carl, y said the foreig
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