San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-20

her, and she can see things that I can't
1t seems to me that her eyes 60 into tn
land Of the dead. Long before yo1
came-days and days ago-she said sh
was going to have visit from strang
err just like you. And, somehow or 9th
err, she seems TO connect this storm weir
having with something in her past life.
At this moment heard Lucy's voic'
once more. Yes. Darkness ant
storm, and danger and death! Dealt
for me, death for him, death for her.
(pointing to her mother) " death for al
but you'll" bringing back her eyes to
rest on me. .......
So saying, she turned her back upon
us, and walked slowly, and with droop-
ing head, to the door.
"Don't put yourself to any trouble,
SIR" said the mother, IS l made mo-
ton to help Lucy with my arm. "She
feels this state going off, and her time
for waking coming on. She will just
have time to reach her bed. She never
falls, sir. But she'll be the death OF
me, know"
As the old woman completed her SEN
tence, the soft crash as of body falling
upon bed, came to us from the next
room. ..r d. $50 ....g',
The mother motioned me away.
"Come see her to morrow, >" she said,
i''if you will be so kind. will prepare
Lucy BY telling her you have been here.
1t would be too much of a shock for her
to see you now" .'''' "'" " "
"But you say her predictions always
come trueP" asked. ! IA! ID ''''' .
"Yes.r 49,. s93y .tU .a".'u ''' Y .
"Have you no fear for yourself thenP
No fear of something imminent and
near, if what she says-storm, and dan
ger and death-be truep'' 7.,t Hanoi /.
The old woman's eyes flashed with a
strange light as she lifted them for the
last time to mine. .... ... ..... ..al .
eff my punishment is to come it will
come, sir, be the punishment what it
may. l am the cause Of my child's dis
ease. She has been so ever since her
fathers death-ever since I forbid her
marriage with young sea-captain who
loved her. If my punishment is to
come, it will come, sir, be the form what
it may" and with these words she bent
her face resolutely over her knitting and
looked at me no more.
When l returned to the vehicle l
found the driver blue with cold. We
reached the hotel in safety, however;
but the next morning, so great was my
anxiety to be at Thorncliff again that L
'et off alone in dog cart.
The weather had undergone one of
hose many NODDED changes which are
peculiar to the climate of England. The
was as soft as May, and 1
night have imagined that the melting
now would uncover flowers.
When within mile of the 'sThorn-
lift Arms" suddenly became witness
o phenomenon such as 1 hope may
lever be my lot to behold again.
At little distance above the sea OBJ
erved two masses of clouds rapidly ap-
one another. They were on
level. One mass was dark and heavy;
he other was luminous. Both moved
nth equal rapidity. Before I could
nake clear to my mind what phenome-
on was about to occur, they met, and,
Nth discharge like that of infinite az
llery, swooped to the ground in dense
lrid column, in the shape of an invert-
d balloon. Without pausing for mo-
lent, this column rolled inward from
ne sea toward the shore, reaching ,
'hich, it entered upon an obliqe course.
saw rocks, trees, bushes, stones and ;
and tossed into the air. AS the cyclone
yept around, perfect rain of such
lissiles threatened to hurl a destruction ,
pom my path. 1t was almost impossi- ;
lie to hold in check the terrified horse. ,
I had stepped out of the vehicle and
as talking to the animal soothingly, !
hen all at once a crashing sound, loud ,
than all the rest, reached my ear; ,
nd through the disordered atmosphere,
led with the particles, smoking, like ,
alter in the sunbeam, from the ruins in 9
e wake of the cyclone, 1 saw the roof :,
the Thorncliff Arms'' lifted high =
to the air, with posts, timbers and 6
anks flying in all directions, and l v
'ard a low, long shrek of anguish,