Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-01

scheme of rambling through the pleasant
district of mid England, in the height OF
summer, was delightful to mo. 1t would
be like q wedding tour, a second honey
moon, l said.
We wandered about in the woods all the
evening, and I was so tired thai 1 dropped
asleep directly my head touched the pill
low.
How long had 1 been Asleep 1 woke,
hlvering with fear. For, increlible as it
night before had been repeated, to every
smallest detail. Again the river, the
bridge, the lovers, the sudden splash and
cry, ands then the face of my husband
turned towards me with thai frantic hor-
ror on it,!
This time I did not cry out. ony drew
my breath quickly and lay rigid, una bic to
move or speak, though / knew, somehow,
that Edward was awake.
"Now then, Nary" he said, tenAerly.
Nightmares again? What a start you
gave!"
said, II don't think travelling agrees with
me. ! never had such dreams before.Y
And then 1 lay SILENT thinking how
strangely that first dream must have at
fected me, for. it to have reproduced itself
thus exactly. l couldn't tell Edward to,p
ABOUT 1t, because he would wonder so Why
! hadn't told him yesterday. So l held by
tongue, and when I had listened for soMe
time to the regular breathing that told he
he was asleep, l too, dropped into uncoh-
seriousness; an inconsistencies which wh
broken by no more dreams.
For the next week We wandered about
from one charming spot to another.
"Where are your rosesy". said my hus-
band, one morning. "They don't seem to
flourish in this English air."
They did not, indeed. Though I was
yoang, though my husband seemed to
days In the loveliest English country, l
was beginning to feel that my life was
hardly worth haying. Most Of US have
had the same dream twice over; but,
reader, has il ever happened to you to
dream the same dream, and that a horror
too deep for description, for seven consecu-
tive nights?
That is what had befallen me. That was
what was driving the color from MY
cheeks and the light from my ayes. Every
night l met this vision; every night l
woke. feeling as if it were all true; every
moraing the relief of daylight was less,
and the sense of misery-and misery not
| without stronger. | silaply
could not tell Edward, just because 1 SUI
fered SO; and after the first two nights l
die not even tell him had been dreaming
though. he was never asleep when l
woke.
On tho eighth day we reached hnners-
ACys u I'LL 10 u VI 0ASuAo AZ u
the only rooms we could get were &wo tiny
apartments, with the width of the house
between them. I felt n little uneasy when
I went to bed. My nerves were beginning
to suffer from the strain % this nightly
terror. How should feel when woke, as
as I knew I should-with that vision still
before my eyes-in that little room alone?
l did not,like to think Of it.
When l awoke, the whole room was full
of the strong sunlight that streamed
through the uncurtained Window. l had
had a fair: full, perfect night of sleep:
broken. The dream had not NJ
Oh, the relief . that waking. To feel
that the torture was over, that the vision,
with it's m%addeniny air of reality, had
ceased to visit me! l went downstairs
humming O tune.
place." 1 said to Edward. Everything
see ned rose-colored to me.
"You're looking like yourself again." he
returned. "Shall We stay here another
day, Mary?"
In the evening we were sitting ut the end
of the inn garden. 1t was an intensely
still evening; still with the hush that
comes before a storm; the sort of hush
that makes people say there is electricity
in the air. There were green trees in the
/ SuTuou, anu lOuH RIASS-dAA uAuc u Sldy
old lichen-covered apple tree was the
wooden seat or which we wero sitting,
The birds were quite silent, and into ou1
talk a silence came presently, as on such
evenings s%ilences do come. l slipped my
hand into my husbands, and we sat there
quietly. I was utterly at peace, and filled
with q sense of rest aud contentment such
as l had not known since we left Austria
liza. There is nothing in the world SO de-
licious as silence-where there is perfect
.sympathy.
interval-no drowsy interiude. Straight
from that tair inn garden which had
seemed to me like q little paradise, I was
taken pack to my dream-spot, that wood
by the river. Pres entity the two figures
c,me along again, n the old scene was
enacted with that terrible newness that
had characterized its every representation.
1 never knew-as one does sornetimes-that
1 had seen it before. 1t always had a hor-
rible unexpectedness about it. 1t was
only when I woke that the knowledge of
how often 1 had seen it used to come upon
me, aud add to the tortures I had to bear.
After the climax, I found myself in the
seat, Edwards hand in mine, and such a
deadly sensation of weakness, exhaustion,
and utter prostration, as I had never felt
in all my healthy life. When l spoke, my
voice sounded like some one else's.
'ElWaTu-l I'LL tlIeus 1Io 10 " Il.
can right" he answered. "Why-
what's the matter, Mary? You look like a
little ghost!"
I'm tired of moving about. l can not
keep it up. Let US go on to the West
lakes"
livery we'll. You certainly are not
| looking yourself, and l shall take you to a
| doctor directly we reach Carlisle. l must
take care of my Australian lily"
"Shall I write Tonight" 1 said, eager
for any change.
yes, if you like! Why, what a misera-
BILE little face: You're soon tired Of your
second honeymoon, Mary!"
SIT isn't that" l said feebly, cut to the
heart by this reproach. Was it my fancy,
or had his voice altered, as we'll as his
face, in this last week. sit isn't that; but
! 1 do feel i'll, Edward. and I think / should
| like to see a DOCTOR"
And / went indoors to write my letter to
the Westlakes.
Having written it, I sat by the open win
| dow waiting for Edward to come in from
the garden and tell mo the exact address.
I sat scribbling On IN odd half-sheet OF
| paper. Ihave some little skill at catching
iikenessss, and presently . very fair sketch
| of my husbands face lay before me. Then
the busy pen went on scratching, guided, ]
do believe, by the Imp of the Perverse,
/ and a companion portrait appeared.
A girl with a handsome face. and head
thrown back %defantly; I was touching up
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