News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-14

In sight I could have no doubt who
he meant by her, but L was SO taken
aback, that what to go on saying to the
man l knew not. 1t was obvious he
was under some strange mental delu-
sion. Presently he spoke again, as if
to himself d" Behind her by the MANTLE
piece; behind her chair; that fearful
things face; those fendish eyes; my
God |"
AS said before, am not supersti-
tious but it was neither quite comfort
able nor canny hearing these queer ex-
CARNATIONS under the peculiar circum-
stances; in a moonlight walk, dark,
outrageous thickets on one side of us,
on the other black, cavernous cliffs, and
the melancholy murmuring sea.
As far as my memory serves, we were
still little way from the lodge gate,
when A stopped again an instant,
and said: "Listen what's that ?" 1
could hear nothing, but in few seconds
came the distant clatter of galloping
horse along the drive. Something has
happened to her." whispered A,
laying chill hand on mine. "Any-
thing the matter ?" I shouted to the
groom who passed us on a horse. The
man called out something which we
were unable to catch, and galloped on.
We could see him pull up at the gate,
and a woman came out to open it but,
by the time we reached her, horse and
rider were out of sight. She was stand
ing staring down the road after them,
and asked her if anything was wrong.
"Jesu save us, sur p she exclaimed,
crossing herself, the man says NEE
lady is dea9-she has taken her life -
dead taken her life % was my eiacu-
lation. why, we've only just left the
house." Here was indeed a climax to
my bewildelment ! But what an an
nouncement 1 was utterly unable to
realize tit seemed too monstrous. My
first impulse was to run back at once to
the hall and see if we could be of any
use; but on second thoughts it seemed
better not. Then, as we hurried out of
the park through the tall massive gate
way, heard my companion mutter, ev-
identity still possessed with his halluei-
nation, "Did she see it too p
About halfway to Moynetown we
met our car coming out to fetch us, and
mounted it. 81 seen Ms man
ridin' by iist now like SMOKE" was the
remark of our whilom taciturn jarvie;
"there's somethin' up, behave. They
tells quare tales of that house, an the
ould chapel, an the lights seen about it
O. nights, an the sthrange noises paople
hears thereabout. Och, thin, sure an
there's bad luck in that house, Sur !"
l was too stupefed to stop the fellows
gable till his words were out, and they
have often REQUIRED to my mind since.
When we got back to our inn, the i'll
news was already in the air. / sent for
the landlord, inquired for the principal
medical man in the town, and dis
patched an urgent message to him IN
timat1ng what we had heard, and beg
ging him to 60 out to the Hall imme-
diateIy. Word was brought back that
the doctor had already been sent for,
and gone. This done, felt 1 hardly
dared ask further questions of any one
Just then. Yet the whole thing seemed
like a horrid dream, hardly credible.
We two sat up late into the night in the
little inn parlor-I absorbed in the oc-
currence of this eventful evening, and
in painful anticipation of hearing more;
A speaking not word, bat glover
ing into the fire.
Next morning we were to make an
early start. Before the fall-in bugle
sounded the little bustling Iandlady had
communicated to us all sorts of rumors
concerning the terrible event that had
taken place the night before. Clearly
the tragic story was all over the whole
| town by this time, but the only coherent
upshot of the matter we could extract
was that the poor lady down at the Hall
had gone up to her bedroom immedi-
ately after dinner, and then and there
taken poison-that they found her
stretched on the floor quite dead, the
face turned to one side, as if averted
from something, and with an awfully
fearsome look upon it.
1t may be imagined 1 was anything
but sorry when 1 and my men mounted
the steep hill overlooking Moynetown,
on the road to our next billets, with
our backs turned upon the scene of this
CHASTITY and mysterious business.
1 never heard of the M--famiIy
again, nor did I ever visit Moynetown.
I believe there was an inquest, and a
verdict of temporary insanity. A few
months afterward 1 CHANGED to see some
thing in local newspaper about Innish-
derry Hall being to let; and "that dread
full affair down in County" was
talked of for while in Dublin in a GER
tain circle of society. AS for A, he,
too, passed out OF my observation very
soon after, as he applied for leave and
got an exchange. He never told me
more than what have told the reader,
and never again spoke to me on the
subject.
l suppose some would maintain that
A--was gifted with what in Scotland
is called second sight" Be that as it
may, the mystery of how or why "the
devil stood behind" that singularly
beautiful aud fascinating woman-an
acquaintance of an evening only-will,
1 suspect, never be cleared up.-BLack-
aOood's Magazine.
Old Miracle Plays.