The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-04

| POA III AAy CdI-'l dill mere. IT /
managed to fix my attention on the
subject in hand, that accursed voice
began to remind me that was neither
to sleep nor to work, not to have any
peace tor the rest of my natural life.
| NV hat you have done, I shall do
and worse. l shall dog you'll shall
make remorse and despair do for you
what you did to her and to me. will
revenge myself-and her,
What had done to him? How was
| to get rid of this accursed lunatic
ghost? By what spell and charm could
l lay him forever in the Red Sea-!
The full misery of the thing was yet
to come.
The spectre. in the afternoon seemed
to have left me. even forgot it's OK.
istence, and dined comfortably. At s
[ aet my Eleanor, and persuaded her.
not thinking what might happen, to
look at some new furniture in what
was going to be our joint house. She
came. Nothing happened until we
went into the garden. AS led her up
and down the walk, her hand in mine,
she suddenly stopped with a cry.
"Alfred, who has been walking along
the sand''-there was an edging of red
sand to the gravel-'swith bare feet :"
I looked. There were footprints
great gaunt footprints-parallel with
my own. knew at once what was
going to happen, and 1 trembled.
Nothing, Nelly; nobody. Who
should walk in bare feet except a car
penter! Let us go in
''Alfred - she cried, ''see they are
falling still, the footprints,-as we
walk. Take me in, take me away -
It was pleasant! The accursed
ghost was setting his long feet beside
mine, keeping step, so that every foot
fall Of mine there was new footprint
OF his. l bore my girl half fainting
into the house.
"What was it, Alfred? What was
it? I lam afraid. And see-see Oh
Alfred--Alfred!'
With cry of freight she fell faint
ing into my arms. Between us and
the window stood revealed that awful
figure in it's long white grave.clothes,
pointing it's long bony fingers at me,
but saying no word.
took Eleanor home. I implored
Ter to keep silence as to what she had
seen. soothed and pacifed her. I
assured her that it was fancy-that it
was trick Of imaginatiOn-that it
was some schoolboy deviltry- any
thing to keep her quiet. And thus l
left her, and returned, miserable and
maddened, to battle with this demon
who had fastened himself upon me.
lie was sitting in my chair. with his
abominable head, as usual, in his
hand.
81 allow you to go away with the
girl, he said, "because do not wish
to do her any harm. But she shall
never marry you--remember that.
Wretch !"-he rose from the chair and
approached me with threatening ges-
lures sswretch !! Was it not enough
to interfere between me and her You
try to murder the happiness Of anoth-
Ell innocent girl! Can you ruthlessly
"Good heavens - cried, almost be.
side myself with rage. "What have I
done to you, devil OF lunatic, that you
should persecute me in this way -
s:He asks me what he had done
Think of Madagascar, villain of the
deepest dye. Think of San Fran, pi-
rate and crimp. Think of Liverpool
docks and Polly. Joe Kirby-Joe Kir-
by, you we're always as braZen liar as
ever stepped, but did not think you
would braZen it out to me-
A thought struck me.
"You call me Joe Kirby. I am not
Joe Kirby at all. | never heard of any
Joe Kirby.''
He laughed.
eff you are not Joe Kirby" he said,
Il will eat my hiatt mean, of course
"Come: this is trifing. l say that
you mistake me for some one else.
What makes you think me Joe
Kirby
because you are
"Nonsense. How long since you
saw Joe Kirby
''Ten years.
':What was he like when you left
him -
"Much the same as you,-sanctimo
NOUS look, reddish hair, stumpy figure,
fat cheeks, just like yourself.'
clad this devil of a Joe Kirby any
marks -
''Tattoo marks like mine, on the
right arm. 1 did him-I mean Joe.
He did me-
drew up my shirt and showed him
my arms, white and free from any
tattoo mark at all.
He was stupefied.
| ':Well-I'm-no--I' dashed. And
you amt Joe Kirby at all? Lord
Lord what fool you must have
taken me for
Il did,