The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-08-14
A STRANGE STORY.
My Remarkable Dream and It's
Fulflllment.

Mine Is g strange story. the story OF
the one event-fraught even now with
haunting mystery in a life otherwis
monotonous and embarrassing. What
subtle instinct prompts me to tell my
tale. know not; unless il be the half
unconscious wish to communicate 10
others that which must ever he con-
nected in my own mind with so much
that is weird and inexplicable. Even
now. when 1t all lies behind me like "a
tale that is told" fast receding and fad
Ing away into the outliyed past when
my blood flows coldIy through my
veins. and my heart. like wcaried.
wasted thing. drags slowly on till the
chill hand Of death shall stay It forever
even now l shrink with shuddering
repugnancc. and would fain draw back
from my self-imposed task.
doubt il. under Gods Heaven. two
human souls ever loved each o.her more
deyotedly than did my husband and
myself. We had been married but a
short twelve months when he came
home one night with haggard. abb
sorbed look on his face. that told me
instantly something OF importance must
have happened. What it was ! soon
learned. Business Of the utmost ur-
gency required him to start NJ once for
Brazil. We were to be- separated. he
and l. for six long months-he TO jour
new across world of wild. angry
waters. to drag out the weary days
in lonely waiting and watching for his
vcturn.
OF the desolate weeks that followed
my husbands departure. will not now
speak. The DAYS dragged slowly on.
one by one. and nj last the time arrived
when | might expect TO hear from him.
The mail from Brazil the one he had
promised to write by--came in, but the
letter had watched for. longed for and
PRAYED for through SO many weary days
and restless nights. came not, nor had
any tidngs Of his ship been received.
went into his Office. where knew they
would hear directly she arrived. They
told me there was no cause for anxiety
the ship was overdue. but that was 4
common occurrence. some accident hac
probably delayed her; they would tel
cgraph directly she was advised.
DAYS grew into weeks and weeks int
months. and yet no news Of the Osprey
How lived through that awful time
God only knows. Night after night,
Law awake thinking. thinking. thinking
until. utterly exhausted. fell into
restless. drcam-haunted sleep: onl.
TO toss TO and fro on
wild heaving ocean. over whicl
was wandering in search Of my los
husband Day after day would shu
myself up in my room TO lie prostrat
on the f,oor. sobbing: "Oh. my hus
band my brave. noble husband Co
give him back 10 me. give him back Z
me"
will not weary the reader an
wiring my own heart fresh by dwcllin
upon the black misery and hopeless
agony OF that fearful time Two lon
years had gone by. and nothing bein
heard OF the Osprey il WAS considere
as settled beyond doubt that she ha
gone down and ali on board persisted
Just at this time an old maiden aunt Q
nv husbands. who had been very III
took II into her head that she woul
like me 10 20 and stay few days wit
her. A. the doctors said she coul
not possibly live more than month q
two had not tile heart To refuse; an
so. for the first time since my marriage
found myself sleeping under strang
roof II was a little country farm
house way up in the midland counties
] had never been there before. and.
the journey was long one. and ! wa
very tired, went TO bed soon after n.
arrival. That night l dreamt drcar
OF sucn intense vividness and realit
that even now l can recall II to m
mind. fresh and unfading as II It ha
happened but yesterday. ! found IN,
self. know not how. standing alone !
midnight on q bare. bleak heath. ]
only by the weird light Of a low-lyin
moon. far away in tho starless soutl
Across her wan face stretched raggc
skirt Of black. angry cloud. on ciths
side Of which the intercepted ray
broke into two long hazy beams I
light one shooting far across the cali
heavens. the sthcr bending dow
toward earth till II was lost Ia Il
shadowy horizon. All around m.
as far as the eye coul
reach. spread the wild waste
moorland, save that away 70 the right
saw the dark outline Of some buildin
apparently a deserted shed Or co
tagc. As stood there, numb an
trembling in the chill night air,
strange Irresistible impulse - kno
not what c. seized me, by which WI