Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-05-29

"man and brother beyond doubt. Still,
he RETAINED from mentioning the incident
of an hour before, lest he should be laugh
ed at or disbelieved.
They passed the open place, the plane
tree. and reached the bath. 70 their sur
prise-Osman's, at least its door stood
wide open, and the entrance hall was fully
lighted up; vet no one appeared 10 be NOV
ing within; the head bath-kcrper's accus-
toned place was empty; nor did any atten-
dants come forward TO meet them But
the bathing-wrappers, towels, and other re-
quisites were already put out; some hung
ND: some folded in their proper places
everything was neatly arranged and nc for
use. ..They must Ia e got the bath IN or
der, and then, finding that nobody came,
have turned in again for nap" said Os-
mans companion. swell, till some one
awakes. we had best change our dress, and
make ourselves comfortable, for the mean
time. in the bathing room.
Osman agreed, aud the two exchanged
their out-of-dOors dress for the costume or
dinary in an Eastern bath, consisting OF
very toga-like wrappers, and went into the
large vaulted inner rOom, which was also
lighted up and ready warmed. Here they
Law down on the raised stone diaS against
the wall, with dome-like roof some 20 or
25 feet overhead, and the lamp hanging
down from it in the centre
While they thus reclined at ease, waiting
fill either a ser, ant or some other bather
like themselves should enter, Osman, who
had now no d.ubts left in his mind as to
the real and bodily identity of his COM
Danion. could not resist the temptation OF
recounting to him the previous adventure
of the night. SO he told how he had been
awakened and beguiled out Of doors by
phantOm exactly resembling in shape and
voice the friend now beside him, and how
thev had almost arrived at the bath, when
the spectre BETRAYED itself for what il really
was by the partentous feat already descrlb-
ed. The other listened without interrupt
ing the story in aFpIrent astOnlsbmenf, TIL
as the narrator concluded: go" he sub
ioined. sit hung the lantern il was carrying
on the top of the big minaret, did 1t? Do
Won think he could have managed this !"
and with these words, he lifted a leg and q
foot, which suddenly heightened out just
as the arm had done before, and with a
kick struck the very highest point Of the
central vault above them, shatterlng to
pieces the lamp where it hung.
Osman leaps up terrified, as well he
might be, and found himself alon ein pitch
darkness, for every light in the bath had
been instantaneOusly extinguiShed. How
ever. as he had often been in the building
before. and was thoroughly well acquainted
with it, he managed, in spite OF his trepida-
tiOn. 10 find his way 10 the door, aud
rushed out, in bathing costume as he was,
into the open air, leaving bis own clothes,
which he did not venture to seCcL All, T,
behind him in the enirance-IOOm. But IS
he crossed the open space between the
coffee-house and the bath, he looked back,
and to his horror, saw the dim and distant
top Of the minaret within the fortress once
more lighted up by the spectral lanterns
hanging there. Chill aud trembling, he at
last cot back 20 his own house. There he
fonnd his wife fast asleep; and much was
she surprised when he woke her TO see him
so Quickly returned, and in such strange
attire. He now made a clean rreast OF n,
telling her of all that had happened to him
that night from first TO last, and adding,
that when the day was up he wouli re-
turn TO the bath and fetch his clothes from
where he had left them.
But hardly had he finished his narration
when. to the alarm Of both, the same rap
that had twice been heard before was No
plated outside. Osman's wife, naturally
enough, entreated her husband to pay no
attention to it. But. like Tam-o-Shsmer
in similar case, he would Nos take ad-
vice:
All, gentle dampsl at gaes me greet,
To think how monte counSels sweet,
How mORie heightened, sage adyiees,
-- The husband frae the wife desptsess
aBnt to our tale" OSman, who was By
no means a coward, and whose metal was
now fairly up, swore that he would see the
matter out to the end; besides, added be,