Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-06-09

lies blue cloak, such mans CLOAK
as is portrayed in the picture below
and figured in my dream last night.
A sudden courage nerves my weak
ness. | will know the truth of al
this. With trembling hand out.
stretched l touch it. 1t is no gar
ment ofphantasy, but solid blue cloth
and, as | examine it further, l notice
buttons the device Of which is not un.
familiar to me Surely no ghost could
adorn its rament with the crest of nv
husbands regiment AS | stare in
wonder at the well-known sign, a
slight noise attracts my attention
Who is this rising FROM the freside
chair and stepping towards me? Tho
face is pale indeed, and one arm is
resting IN sling; but, even as my
senses fail, the face bent over me With
such look OF tenderness, the loving,
well-remembered voice, tell ALL No
ghost, no spirit from another world,
could have so real a presence. Oh,
Frank, my Frank
Yes, it is all true; he is here. DAYS
have passed, and we have fully dis
cusSed our stories. They all make a
great fuss over me, and treat me az
an invalid; but nav strength is return
ing very fast, though they tell me
that there were two long days be-
tween the night that Frank found me
sNooung IN the old drawing-room
and the morning when woke TO rec
ognlz- his old Lancer cloak lying by
my bed
He and | have had much to tell
each other. NV story has been Civ
en-, and his nav be told shortly, He
WAS badly wounded, and lay i'll in
hospita for days and weeks, 100 iii to
Detr or know rsthing When he
began 10 recover, and reflected how
,Ong bad bean without news he was
'rlg'lt-nei At the Thought Of nv arx-
lptp, and Ionged to ,crawi II it we're
but one l'ne; anl he ill make left
handed attempt, but | suppose there
was some mistake, for | never recelv-
ID it.
Then came the tidi lgs that he was
to be invalided home, joyfu! news in
one way, but saddened by the doub
as to mis- wounds ever allowing him to
serve again. He travelled day and
night to Join me. My letters having
always been cheerful, he knew moth
ing Of the pecnliarities Of my life at
the Court, and came straight on the
light he arrived in Eng and, never
h"eAing the |ateness OF the hour till
arr ved - SDonghbnrv Station AMI
toun',t inno.s,h.e o procure con
v1yaoc- H. walked lost his way.
ana re'ched the honss quite ;jred ont
TO find ali dark anl no SO OF lie or
vakefnIpess Hoping to sec u light
in som, srrv .nt : room, he went
roun tothe oth4r aiie o. hn louse,
climbed the low pleasure groun wall
and then saw th t one Of the windows
of the old drawing room was open and
the shutter aiar. ct must have been
the window | opened myself on the
day Of nv exploration and forgot to
close. Lucky for US that tr"mps and
burglars are so rare in SloughburvD
EIe determined 10 try whether he
could not get IN anc spend the night
m some armchair. or even on the
floor, wrapped in his cloak.
As he pushed open the shutter he
saw little Frank and me standing in
th1 moonlight, and heard the bibv-
voice call to him. All, my bahy's in
noceuce, that feared neitner ghost or
goblin, WAS quicker to greet him than
all NV anxious love! AS I fell,
Frank sprang in and tried 10 raise me
with the arm be had free, and, as he
" as bending over me the door creak-
ed, and, looking up, he saw old Mr.
Evreton, who had been reused by the
noise of NV fall and had come to dis
cover the cause. Frank says that the
old man suddenly started back. I
think he must have taken us for the
ghosts of his lost son and The young
wife be had 80 cruelty turned away
in that very room so many years be
fore. But little Frank burst out cry
ing and ran up to him, and then be.
gan to pull him towards me; and the