Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-06-25
.he looked as llttle like an invalid as could

s'My dear Ethel" i interposed, "when
people take to dreaming startling dreams, =
and hearing supernatural sounds, IL Is
sign of something wrong with either mind or
body--as ! am sure DIR. Cameron will tell
you" !
The doctor stated perceptibly. "Ah--is !
that Miss Dysart's casey' he inquired, turn /
ing to her with n sudden look of interest.
She colored and hesitated. 81 have had /.
strange--exporience which papa considers a
deiusion dare say you Will be Of the same
opinion"
"suppose you tell mo what it wasp he
She was silent trining with one of her
silver bangles.
length. al don't care to speak of it, but papa
will tell YOU" And before ] could detain
her, she had hurriedly left the room:
When we were alone he turned To me
inquiringly, and in a few words related to
| him what the reader already knows. lie
| listened without interruption, and when /
| had finished sat for some moments without
speaking, thoughtfnlly stroking his beard
He was evidently impressed by what he |
had heard, and waited anxiously for his
| opinion. At length he looked up.
"Mr Dysart," he said grayeiy, "y9a VOW WIN
not the first who has had this strange 'ex-
perence.' Previous tenants Of The Cedars |
have heard exactly the sounds which she
| Describes"
pushed my chair back half yard in my
astonishment.
| "Impossible ~
lie nodded emphatcally.
ait is a fact, though don't pretend TO ex-
plain il. These strange manifestations have
been noticed at intervals for the last three or
four years; ever since the house was occu-
D pied by Captain Vandeleur, whose orphan
nephew"
= !sVandeleur p, | interrupted; "why, he
/ | was client of ours. He insured his nephew's
/ life in our Office for a large amount and"
"Aud few months aiterward the child
| IIa,I and ,,ata n,alx iaI NV
. | panion put in. "a singular coincidence, to
Q say the least of it."
# $50 singular" l acquiesced, "tbat we
i | thought it a case for inquiry particularly as
q the ex-captain did not bear the best of char
r. acters and was known to be over head and
@ ears in debt. But I am bound to say that
after the closest investigation nothing was
If discovered to suggest suspicion OF foul
play"
10 | was the doctors reply.
AZ You don't mean that he murdered the
lr boy! that pretty, fragile-looking little lei
n | low"
a "No, he did not murder him, but he let
k. him de" DIR. Cameron rejoned "Perhaps
il you are not aware" he continued, "that the
ID little lad was somewhat feeble in mind as
TO body? / attended him more than once, al
RS | Vandeleur's request, and found that among
1t | other strange fears and antipathies he had
at | morbid dread of darkness. To be lett alone
in dark room for only few minutes wa
ed | enough to throw him into paroxysm o
nervous excitement His uncle-who, b,
,t the way professed more affection for him thai
on | / could quite believe in, when noticed how
in the child shrank from him-consulted me
to the best means Of overcoming this weak
,as ess. / strongly advised him to humor 1t 10
ice | the present, warming him that any Inenta
nv shock might endanger the boys reason, o
- even his life / little thought those words {
mine would prove his death-warrant"
,ad "What do you meanY'
let "Only few days afterwards Nandeleu
locked him up all night in dark close
ron where he was found the next mornint
NV. crouching against the wall his hanc
r, clenched, his eyes xed and staring-dead.
amr Good heavens, how horrible ! but no wor
-" Of this was mentioned at the inquest?"
+ NO and did not hear of it myself II
long atterward, from woman VINO had pee
, 10 Nandeleur's housckeeper, but was too uiuC
" afraid of him to betray him at the tim
,o, | From her, too | learned by what retln6
III cruelty the poor little lads nerves had be,
, shake en- and his health undermined If Il
a p intention makes the deed James Wand
Is leur was a murderer
'1n ,tn was silent moment, thinking, with ;
, a., | uncomfortable thrill, Of Etbels dream.
| wish had never entered this ill-Omen
. | housev exclaimed at length. "a dre
H,r the effect of this revelation Oh my daughter
rn mind.
WI "why need you tell her?" he questione
;",, " NV advice is to say nothing more about
To,, The sooner she forgets the subject the bett'
''"' Send her away to the seaside change OF I
isb- and scene will soon efface 1t from her me-
80 | ory."
'eno ',a, He rose AS he spoke, and took up his h
~ | "What has become of Nandeleur z"
, @ Wv quired. al have heard nothing OF him sir
"a we paid the policy"
:, az ~ He has been living abroad, believe
ond going to the dogs, no doubt. But he is
az, anu England now," the doctor added " or G
GU arn a it was his fetch which saw at your g
,,'i, the other night"
July "At our gate ~ echoed in astOnishme
What the deuce was he doing there P
iSS He seemed to be watching the house.
~ tiT' was last Sunday evening. ] had been DIM
ed d; ., | with friends at Richmond and on my "
inrS back, between IL and II O'Clock, ! motto
~. , a man leaning over the gate OF The Ceda
ae On hearing footsteps he turned and walk
i MI | away, but not before had caught a glim
,,a, | of his face in the moonlight"
w "And you are sure it was him ??
,,.1 | "AlmoSt certain-though he was 2rea
'"u altered for the worse. l have presentm
lay n i,SS you ,a,raeIs ernrs lone he added thong
fully as he shook hands and went
way.
, / lost no time in following his adv
ii''' with regard to Ethel, whom l dispatched
- -, Scarborough, in charge Of my married sis
;o ;o !, a few days later.
!" had taken a hearty dislike TO The Cedi
,iod and resolved TO get it off my hands, as 81
rhn,, | az might be-
Ln3 Until another tenant could be found, h
ne ever, continued to occupy it, going to
hnnn from town as before