River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-03-11


ed-down gas.
shall never forget the terrible sight
| that met my eyes. | would have
screamed but my tongue remained
glued to my mouth. | was looking at
dead woman risen from the grave.
Her face had been beautiful in life;
now it was ashen gray. The eyes We're
sunken in their sockets, and her lips
were pale and colorless. The figure
was draped in long white shroud, and
fancied that the room was heavy
with the awful odor of an open grave.
Slowly the phantom moved towards
the next room, and glided in. For a
moment all was still. Then came a
faint cry. The man was awake, and
alone with the apparition. "Drusilla ~
he shrieked. "Mercy Mercy Have
mercy"
heard hollow voice answer him,
"Rise and follow me-"
What would you have with me p
Confess"
What shall | confess?" answered the
wretched man, his voice trembling in
| an agony of fear
Confess the foul wrong you did me.
Confess where my poor body lies, that
it may be buried in holy ground.
Again the mans trembling voice
walled out, 81 will confess all"
Follow me y .......s ..-.-..s
The apparition gided from the inner
roam, and the man followed her.. ..-
Write y - -
The dead woman pointed to the table
YuEara fl,n Won o,6 it,lv apJ III @
man obeyed her gesture mechanically.
Write all p
could see from rentin the valance
the whole scene. The man, white with
terror, the beads Of cold perspiration
on his brow, sat and wrote.
The apparition glided behind him
and looked over his shoulder.
Once he paused in his task.
"Write all said the white figure
And again the man wrote.
The figure then grasped the paper
with it's waxen fingers. Cop 1t said
p cinting to the inner room.
With his eyes fixed upon its livid
face, the man backed slowly for some
PAGES with violent effort and little
scream, he seized the door, swung
it 10, and boited if on the inside.
Then, for the first time the dead wo-
man trembled.
she seemed strangely nervous and
agitated now she clasped the paper
closely, then put ii in her bosom, and
glded from the room.
[ had got over that sudden terror In
spired by such a strange sight, and /
made up my mind that had detected
some terrible imposture. There was a
slight pause in the lobby, and the noise
of a garment being drawn off; then the
outer door opened and the yisitant pass
ed out on the staircase.
| followed as quietly as | could. The
staircase was lighted with gas. As l
trOd on the second landing the ghost
beard the noise and looked up. She was
dressed in an ordinary black costume
now, and her face was a natural color.
i To my intense surprise she neither
screamed nor attempted to run away.
She stood and beckoned me to her side.
what are you going to DOT she
said. ------ --- 81. 81
f 'Fo give you into custody"
Are you friend of his?" 80
l answered "Yes" mechanically.
Then let me go free if you value his
flife."
IF let you 60 then l am your &C.
complete" l murmured; your accom-.
plice in some vile imposture."
"No. If you are my accomplice to-
night, you are an accompllce IN the
lholiest Geed woman ever wrought
Pass me through the gates if you doubt
me; watch me; follow me home; give
me into custody if you like; Idon't care
I've got what wanted" -
| took her arm as though / had been
police man, and said: pass through
the gate then, and if you attempt to get
| away shall call for help.
She nodded to the proposition. The
man was half asleep. | reused
him from his box, he pulled the cord
and let us pass through the wicket door
into the Strand.
L then listened to the strangest story
that ever mortal lips had uttered, and
| there was no doubt that every word OF
it was true. a4.1.
/ TIE confession which the trembling
| wretch had written at her dictation-as
| he believed at the dictation of his dead
wife had read. 1t was a plain state
M ent Of how he had poisoned the poor
girl whom he had welded in fit oil
mad jealousy, and how he had conceal
! ed his crime; how at the last moment
/! he had overheard whisper that some
Zone suspected foul play !; and how, fear.
ing the body might be exhumed. be
! bad, with the assistance of an accom-
plice, since dead, stolen the body that
night and re-burled it in the garden Of
a house in a lonely part of the Amer
can town where this acComplice lived
This woman was his wife's sister, and
she had suspected foul play from the
| first. She was an actress, and was away
! on q provincial tour when Blissett EN-
i erten. wooed ard won Drusilla and
took her abroad with him. Emerton
had never seen this sister. The mar
rage had been secret and nurried, and
he had seemed srangelyanxious to leave
the country. They were to be back in
| five months. 3s s.-.,.
! Drusilla-Roor trusting looll--idoliZed
/ the man and obeyed him. To her he
| was knight without reproaCh.<
i But soon his conduct to her altered
! strangely, and She began To suspect
that all fas not right. He grew cold
1 and cruel, and SIZE was miserable and
unhappy. :
| She wrote secretly to her sister, told
her.tropbIes and how quickly her hus
baud conduct had altered her. The sis.
Tier urged her TO leave him and come
horae. She was expecting her to do So
4 VIII Ell taere came the news Of her III
ness aud death. aud then ofthe ulys-
FERROUS Disappearance Of the body
1 From that moment Drusills Enexton'i
sister made mp her mind to- faith
ON the mystery and bring the gull
/ home To. the murderer. She refused Il
accept the explanation Of her sisters
j death. She believed Blissett Enertor
! 10 be oEite capable OF carrying out :
I carefully naatured plot to get rid OF her
The dissppearaneeo Of the body strength
| ened hes. snSpicions. She concluded a
once that he feared the corpse Nigh
aftesward be exhumed, and as it tgirnee
out her suspicious were corrests Wher
some time . ltef wards he arrived ia En-
gland she commenced 10 put. her plaU
/. into executions. She would tsrrIfy m
secret from him. 7 have 4sId she va
an .sctress hy profession. She was KS
Ian exact ehlintsfpgst IN hedgh and lea
( ture ns her dead aister
sEAa- YIlhssl EsifseEieil went I'd llFe 70 ClaaTp
befssh 81 sd III q clever liieea
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