Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-10-06

ladder--the smooth, deceitful voice of
the woman with the half-closed eyes.
"Of course he is" growled voice
back; that charge would have killed
ten men certain" )"
A cold, agonizing shuddar ran
through me. What den of midnight
murderers | had fallen into And
how fearfully narrow was my escape
With the speed that onI y mortal
terror and deadly peril can give, L
rushed through the woods, now illu--
minated by faint glimmer of star
light | know not what impulse gui-
ded my footsteps--I never shall know
how many times | crossed NY own
track, or how close | stood to the
deadly y ravine-but merciful Provi-
dence encompassed me with guiding
and protecting care, for when the
morning dawned with faint, red bars
Of orient light against the stormy
eastern sky, | was close to the high
road, some seven miles from R
Once at the town, told my story
to the police, and q detachment was
sent with me to the spot.
After much searching and many
false alarms, we succeeded in finding
the rulnous old house; but it was emp
ty-the birds had flown; nor did /
recover my valise, and watch and
chain, which latter | had left under
my pillow.
Its Drew gang SAID the leader
Of the police, land they've troubled
us for two years. | dou't think,
though, they'll come back here Just at
present.
Nor did they.
But the strangest part OF my story
is vet to come.
Some three weeks afterwards 7 re-
ceived letter from my sister, who
was with Alice in her English home--
a letter that filled me with surprise.
Il must tell YOU something very
Singular" wrote she, that happened
on the night Of the 18th Of October
Alice had not been well for some time
in fact she had bosu confined to her
bed for nearly a weck-and | was
sitting beside her, reading. It was
late the clock had just struck one
when all at once she seemed to faint
away, growing white and rigid as a
corpse. FASTENED to call assistance,
but all Of our efforts to restore ami
nation were in vain. | was ust bout
sending for the doctor, when her sem
ses returned as sudden y as they had
left her, and she sat up in bed, push
ing back her hair and looking wildly
around her.
"Alice, I exclaimed, "how you
have terrified US all Are you il!
now .
"Notill.' she answered, "but feel
80 strange. Grace, have been with
my husband -
"And all our reasoning failed to
convince her Of the impossiblllty of
her assertion. She persists to this
moment that she saw you ana was
with you on the morning Of the 18th
of October. Where and how she can
not tell, but We think it must have
been dream. She is better nov,
aud wish you could see how fast she
is improving
This lS nv PLAIN, unvarnlshsd tale.
| do not pretend to explain or account
tor its mysteries. ! simply relate
facts. Let psychologists unravel It,
! am not snperstitious, neither do
believe in ghosts, wraiths or apparl-
tions; but this thing l do know; that,
although my wife was in England in
body on the morning Of the 18th Of
October, her spirit surely stood before
me in New York ia the moment of
deadly peril that menaced me. 1t
may be that to the subtle instinct and
strength of a wifes holy love all
! things are possible, but Alice surely
saved nay life.
"Gentlemen of the jury, said d
blundering counsel in a suit about a
lot Of hogs; "there were Just thirty six
in the drove. Plense remember the
fact-thirty-six hogs just three times
as many as in thatJury box, gentle