The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-12-08

by the elder Hampden had broken loose
and disappeared, in consequence OF
which the gentleman was forced 10 con-
tinue the hunt on foot, which he did AT
the head OF the villagers. About haf
mile down the stream was a ford the
place was known IS "St. Adams
Well" Young Hampden, who had
preceded his party some distance, reach
ed the well alone, just as the moon
emerged from the clouds and liz up the
scene brilliantly. No sooner had his
horse crossed the little river and APP
preached the blasted oak that over
hangs the well than he was struck DUMB
with amazement and horror, for, lying
there rs il dead, with the blood oozing
from her white breast and her long hair
wound about her as if 10 shield her,
was the daughter of Sir William and
the woman he was to make his wife.
/ For a moment he believed himself 10 be
the victim of some cruel incarnation,
/ but the voices of the approaching VII
layers warned him. In few moments
they would be upon him. With the
alacrity and courage of true gallant,
I his instinct was AT once To save her from
exposure and danger. He lifted her up
on his horse, stripped himself of what
I clothing would answer the purpose, and
draped and guarded he led his precious
/ but unconscious burden noiselessly away
from the pursuers.
Twice the pursuing party came so
near them that il was only by the most
adroit maneuveriHg that he escaped.
He heard them shouting his name
through the woods, but he passed on
and succeeded in getting his charge
safely home and in preserving the Sc
cret from the world. Shortly after
ward they were married, and the stories
of the "while lady" grew, and, spread
Ing, attracted the attention OF the
chroniclers.
This in substance is Forse's narrative.
And it has pleased the world 10 accept
il as a pretty story of somnambulism.
Petite adopted the current legend, and
reproduced from an old miniature the
portrait of the Lady Hampton. For
the purposes of art and poetry the story
might be properly enough left where
these workers have brought it. But
there is another and curious physi-
illogical side To it.
Lady Hampden died in 1928, and il
appears that one Of her daughters IN
herited her peculiarities. There IS IN
the " Warwick Register - of a succeed
ing year a curious account of an acct
dent which befell a lady living upon the
borders Of Warwick shire. Her nude
body was found in a neighboring
grove, one morning, and the post
mortem examination decided that she
died of fright. This was the daughter
of Lady Hampden. In preparing the
papers which were subsequently pub
hshed under the title of 1.-THE Nigh
Side Of Nature Mrs. Grove for some
reason rejected one which, in attempt
ing TO throw new light upon Th'
, White Lady Of Watford,n brought Z
the surface a number of eXtraordinar.
facts.
! This paper, prepared by physician
who has since become eminent In psy
cologne science, was afterward read be
= fore the British pneumatOlogical sOcie
w. and is al present part of their ar
! chives. Il purpOrts 10 show that tn
l origin OF the stories of the White Lad.
, of Watford and the cause Of the deatl
> Of Lady Hampden's daughter are 10 b
! found not in apparition. nor yet in som
!, nambulism, but in what he calls Gu
? timania, and he proceeds TO give
). number Of cases similar to that alread
4 narrated, in which an Irresistible desir
: amounting often to disease) to free tn
-. body from its conventional! covering
q has given rise 20 the most ridiculou
and unwarranted stories. He also dc
n clares that, while this ms
: MIA has oftenest maifested itse
in women, IL is not necessarily assoc
- ated with immodesty. Ii is an organi
:. impulse which is some way connecte
, with the health of the individual, an
:, NAV be transmitted through a who
> generation. He says that several men
= bers of the Hampden family were we
"A aware of Lady Hampden's nocturni
o. excursions, and that they did not a
E, tempt TO interfere with them, but mer
4 ly took such precautions as prevente
her exposure. This reads curious
Il enough, but, when the doctor declar'
- that She could not have lived if she ha
~ not been allowed 10 take this bath
n freedom, or astonishment Is soften'
a. into pity for the eccentric invalid.
"a How far the misadventure with q
10 savages in the Marquesas may have i
- fluenced the progeny OF the Hampde
!, can safely be left TO DIR. Oliver Wend'
10 Holmes TO determine in fction.-N'
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