The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-07-15

is called Hind aHey,i apparently intend
ed to mislead OK, wayley any one in pur-
suit, who lwaBunacquainthd Filth the in-
tricacies and ,%indingsr OF the labyrinth.
The true path ,was, therefore. followed
with extreme difficulty, particularly as
the air. within it, was 30 impure that
lights could not easily be made to burn.
It was ultimately found that the passage
terminated behind handsome Gothic
stone pavilion, which was erected on the
upper terrace of the garden, and within
foot of high wall that served as an
embankment to retain the steep rising
ground of the hill park. The pavilion
was overgrown with old tangled ivy, and
encirclcd with aged lilac bushes, bleach
ed and intertwisted 30 closely, in every
fantastic form, rs to preclude the posi-
bility Of ingress or egress through them
toward the back of the building, and
there was no other way of getting ut the
secret entrance behind the pavilion ex-
cept by climbing over the pinnacle stone
roof-a feat impossible, without q ladder
or by going round into the hill park,
and there descending by the very narrow
space betreen tho back wall of the payi-
lion and the stone rampant.
The miserable and monstrous creature
who had occasioned the catastrophe
which had SO nearly proved fatal to Miss
Chamberlain, was soon discovered by
the sagacity of q favorite beagls belong
ing to the duke, hid in the hollow of an
old oak which grew in the bottom of
secluded dell in distant part of the
park. When found, he was lying asleep,
coiled up more in the manner of an
adder than of human being. His
appearance, when he emerged from the
tree, was indeed frightful, as, in addi-
ton to stature far above the common
standard, he was emaciated to tho last
degree of attenuation-a perfect living
skeleton. His head was, as Miss Cham
berlain had stated, entirely bald, and his
long, grizzly white beard hung down
nearly to his waist. But beyond all these
revolving circumstances, there was
terrific wildness in his manner and look
which might we'll occasion doubts whe-
ther he was not some ''goblin damned"
1t turned out. however, that he was q
harmless lunatic, who had escaped from
an asylum in the vicinity. How he had
discovered the secret passage leading
into the castle, he could not or would not
divulge. When the keeper of the asy-
lum arrived to reclaim him, by tho
power which such people invariably
acquire over maniacs, he soon ascertain
ed that for nearly month previously he
had frequented the room which had SO
unfortunately been assigned to the hcroino
of our history, and during tho nights
reposed on the bed, and that he had sus-
tained life in the meantime by the exer-
ton of that inexplicable cunning with
which maniacs are SO frequently en-
dowed, enabling him without detection
to plunder the buffers pantry during the
silence and darkness of the nights.
He was native of Darby Dale, in the
immediate neighborhood, and as Had
don. like most houses of the English
nobility, was then, as it still is, freely
shown to strangers, he had probably,
before he was deprived of reason, become
acquainted with the intricacies of the
ancient hall. The reason why he select
ed it rs his place of retreat in escaping
from the asylum, arose, it is believed,
from his having been rejected suitor of
pretty Maude, the house. keepers daugh-
ter. The painful circumstance of his re-
lection had bereft the unfortunate being
of reason.