The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-20

close at hand, found man who offered 70
show him place at no great distance.
| So leaving his valise at the station, ne SET
out in company with his guide to the Inn.
He described the night rs having been one OF
intense cold, and drew quite graphic PIC
ture of the scene through which MS walk LAY,
which, he says, seemed as Wild ana lonely rs
the Ku-Klux districts OF Tennessee or Noftn
Carolina The guide led the way along aalk
| road, and through Q sort OF tunnel tnat
| passed under high railway embankment,
| then over a rayine, in the bottom OF which
one could hear rapid stream rushing angrily
| IN in the darkness, and crossing this by
t-planks short distance further to soil
tarv two-story house that appeared by the
LIGHT of the guides lantern as dark and
gloomy as q prison. All the windows were
closed with heavy shutters and bars, and the
house itself was only to be reached by fight
of steps, at the head of which stood ponder
Gus door.
The guide Knocked IN after considerable
drawing Of bolts and chains, the two were ad
mitted by woman with a candle into mar
row passage, and on stating that his object
vas to get lodgings for the night, the guest
was shown into sort of bar-room, where he
found man and woman sitting BY stove,
the latter of whom came forward with the
air Of a proprietor and gave gruf ''gu.en
abend." After paying the guide and seeing
him depart, the stranger asked to be shown
to his room, replying in the negative to the
question of whether he would have anything
to eat, and only requesting that he might be
walked punctually at 5 in the morning winch
the landlady, after making him pay IL al
vance, promised should be done.
He described this hostess as being the most
bideous old bag imaginable, OF powerful
frame. and with face that showed in every
line the capability for cruelty or crime. he
said that it was such face as would make
one ins.inctively shudder. and that the small
pray eyes which looked out from among its
deep wrinkles, were as cold and pitiless as
stone. Her companion was great, burly
fellow, pleasant, apparently, and he' tco
though not as unprepossessing as the woman,
had an exceedingly bad face, and looked IKE
or murder that the old bag might wish to
perpetrate on guest.
The Young stranger noticed all this as ne
was waiting for his candle to be lighted, and
he said that he began to feel extremely I'M
comfortable, but it was too late to retreat, and
hoping for the best, but fearing the worst ne
followed the hostess TO his room on the upper
floor, which was large apartment with two
single beds and but o scanty supply OF furnl-
ture in it. He repeated his iDjunctions about
being walked early, and after receiving sui
len promise that he should be called at A.
M. saw his disagreeable hostess disappear.
he at once examined the lock of the door,
and found to his satisfaction that there was
holt in the inside, which he Immediately fast
ened. and then proceeded to search for any
other openings by which the room could be
entered from without
He found another door, upon which there
was no bolt and no key to the lock, and this
seemed suspicious; however, he placed some
chairs against it, and was soon between MS
two feather-beds, but SO much concerned
about the unpleasant and rather alarming cir
cumstances by which he was surrounded that
he felt scarcely any disposition to sleep. He
was utterly without arms, his "Smith and
Wesson" being safely slowed in his valise,
nearly mile away, and, in case OF being at
tackled, felt that he would eventually have to
Weld, and that, even then, he might be muir
dered to prevent his making any complaint to
the police. He had just dozed of, when
there came violent rattling at the door, and,
| upon opening it, found the hostess and her
sinister companion Of the bar-room without.
The woman marched in with her candle, and
announced that the man was to occupy the
other bed and, after taking look around the
room, departed.
The ruffiap who was thus installed as the
roommate of the suspicious young American
said that he too was a traveller, going on to
| Leipzig in the morning, which seemed to the
other very much like mere plausible pretext
| for getting admittance to the room. What
made it all look still more suspicious was the
| fact that this man rolled into bed almost with
out undressing, as if he expected soon to get
up again. The young traveller, still more
alarmed with the threatening appearance OF
affairs, now found that he had no disposition
to sleep, and, expecting momentarily to hear
his neighbor come creeping across the floor
to strangle him, lay as still as mouse and
he'll his breath to catch the least sound OF
movement from the other bed The room
was as dark as Egypt, and except by sound it
would have been impossible to discover the
approach of the supposed robber If he had
attempted an attack.
So the young hero lay there listening in
tently and fancying once or twice. as his
neighbor moved in his bed, that he was rising
to do the deed Of murder, and he heartily
wished that he was anywhere else, or that he
At length there came the welcome sound OF q
genuine snore from the direction OF the
ruf1ians bed, and after waiting long time to
be sure that it was not pretended, the young
| II aveler began to feel little easier, and
finally dropped into light and troubled
slumber, from which he woke some SIX or
eight times during the night and lit matches
to see how near the time Of departure it was.
When at last the hands of his watch pointed
to five, he sprung out and waking his still
snoring companion, hastily dressed and left
the place where he had passed such night
of terror, thankful enough to get out into the
open air, which he said he had feared never
to see again. But after all his adventure was
| nothing more than good scare, and he him
self laughed heartily to think of it.
Yours, ETC., STAHLFEDER.
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