Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-08-06
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that would be q bang-up foundation
stone for Edgar Allen III to build up
q structure Of horrors, beside which
the Black Cat. and 81 acts in the case.
OF M. Valdenar' would be tame. q /
am not an moderate eater or.
drinker and usually sleep soundly
every night. II has been my custom
for years to 90 to bed between 10 and
lilo clock. I always breakfast at Z,
lunch at 2, and dine at 6. When Iadd
to this that have not changed my
diet for twenty years, and that am
not an imaginative man you will won
der how my mind should be filled with
such strange thoughts as those I am
about to relate.
II went to bed as usual on Sunday
night, and slept, l should Judge, until
about midnight. Something then
awakened me, and got up and light
ed the gas. 1 did not know what
caused me to get out of bed, and /
went back again. No sooner had my
head touched the pillow than l felt
myself transported to a neighbour
hood which seemed like 4th and Balm
bridge streets. / walked along 4th,
and as I reached cambridge a small
dog ran out OF a market-house and
caught me by the leg. I drew revol-
YER which / had in my hip-pocket, and
shot the malthrough the head. The
noise seemed to attract the atten-
tion OF dozens OF other dogs, that rush.
ed on me from all sides. All this time
was conscious that I was in NV own
bed at home, but felt that my soul, OF
my reason-f the term suits you bet.
ter-was going through this strange
experience. Gradually the conscience
of being in bed faded out, and I SEEM
ed to be in whole fighting off these ours.
| had just succeeded in putting bull
let through the body OF an enormous
hound when a little, misshapen negro
ran out of a house on Fourth street.
He seemed to be frantic with rage,
and demanded why l had killed
his dog. [ made no answer, but
retreated, feeling a sudden and unac-
countable spasm Of fear. ran into a
house on the west side of 4th street,
with the little dwarf close at my heels.
managed to shut the vestibule door
and lock it before l had fairly reached
the top steps. I walked through O.
long hallway to what seemed like
circular platform. In the middle of
this there was a sort Of well guarded
by an iron railing. I could see the
opening OF a spiral stairway leading
down to / know not where.
AS I reached this platform
a door leading from the room
on my right was suddenly
opened, and a dog, precisely similar
to the dog had fl st seen in the mar
ket~ house, started out and flew at my
face. l seized the brute by the throat
and choked him until life was seeming
ly extinct. Then I walked over to
the well-like place and threw the body
of the dog over the railing. heard it
go bounding down until it reached the
bottom, which seemed to be great
depth.
"All this had taken but moment,
and the hump.backed negro was
still struggling at the door seeking
to gain an entrance. 1t instant.
~ flashed across my mind that his
| anger, which even then seemed to be
| almost frenzy, would be intensified
should he discover that I had killed
another dog, and I started to run
down the spiral stairway with a half
formed intention of concealiny the
body OF the dead dog. I went down
aud down and down, and the constant
turning made my brain whirl.
II reached the bottom at last and
fornd myself in a vaulted chamber.
The spiralstalrway ended at the mouth
of a bricked we'll. I looked about
to find the dog, but could not
see him, and while I was specula-
ting as to whether / had tossed
him into the we'll or not,< my eyes be-
came more accustomed to the gloom,
and [ saw ranged about the edge OF
the we'll twelve skulls, which from
their size and conformation | took to
be the skulls of infants. ] was Just
about to retrace my steps and ascend
the stairway, when again I seemed to
become dual entity. I knew that I
was in my own home and in my own
bed, but | could see myself standing in
front of the twelve skulls, and actual
ly wondered h ow my second self would
escape. Then happened a most re-
markable thing. Ibecame fully awake,
although L still saw myself at the
bottom OF the stairway, surrounded
by che skulls. l lifted myself on my ell
bow, and made sure that I was not
dreaming. leaped out OF bed onto
the floor and walked over to the bu-
reau. To my intense amazement I
saw that the mirror was lighted up
with a. strange glow. and in g. dim Wis