The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-06-26
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stealthily homewards, least any of the
agents Of justice should get sight of
him and carry him away to trial If
he could but reach home he would i'm
plore his wife to stab him with a knife
between the eyes, and draw some drons
of blood, a sovereign cure for lycan,
thropy. But poor NJ. DUTIES head was
never very clear, and now it was in a
thorough condition of bewildeYment
so that he completely lost himself, and
SUNK about the streets in disconso-
late manner, vainly searching for his
own domicile. His bewilderment he
came greater with every step he took.
and his confusion and alarm were NOT
little heightened by his stumbling
over an elderly gentleman, and leaving
him apparently dead of fright on the
pavement. IL did not mend matters
when, hearing facre driving by, he
suddenly stepped towards it and asked
the way of the driver-for the coach
man jumped off his seat in paroxysm
of terror, aud the horses, equally
frightened, ran away with the carriage.
whilst the people inside screamed
through the windows.
At last NJ. Oufie sat down on door
step and gave himself up to despair.
The stake was before him, and his
imagination conjured up all the horrors
of his position, chained about the waist,
and dancing in the midst of the flames.
All at once a familiar voice smotc
upon his ear-the voice of his eldest
son. A ray of hope penetrated his
breast. He rose from his seat and
| walked to meet his tirst-born. Thec-
young gentleman was returning from
the masquerade ball at which he had
been figuring. He had imbibed con-
left home, and he had absorbed little
more during the pauses in the dance.
He was accordingly scarcely sober, and
and as he returned, he sang or talked
to himself at the top of his voice. But
now he saw something which sobered
him instantly. This was nothing else
than his own masquerading habit of
bear-skin, which he had left hanging
over the back of a chair, walking
deliberately towards him, as though
the spirit of the departed Bruin had re-
tenanted his forsaken skin, and was
coming in the dead of night to demand a
reckoning with him who had dared to
use it as a carnival habit He stood
and looked at it with pale face and
staring eyes, whilst shudder ran
through his frame.
If it had been within the limits of
physical possibility, he would have
sunk into his shoes. When he heard
his own name articulated in hollow
tones from the muzzle, he turned heel,
and fled like the wind. In vain did
M. Oufle call after him; the louder he
called, the faster fled the youth, and
the distracted father was obliged to
pursue his son. The race was run
with the utmost speed by both parties.
The young man was urged on by terror
lest the skin should overtake him,
and M. Oufle dreaded losing sight of
his son, lest he should at the same
time lose all chance of reganing his
home. When NJ. QUITE, te jeuiae,
turned his white face over his shoulders,
he saw the creature gaining on him,
and heard its hollow calls. He lodged
from street to street, but he invariably
saw the bear-skIn double the corner
ana rush a1ter hlln' turn Wnere ne
wouid. III was IN VAIN LOT MN 10 nope
to throw it out, and at last he ran
straight for home. This he had left by
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