The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-08-05

When on her death-bed three months
ago Eva Hebron, of Round Brook, n.
j., warned her husband, Edwin, not to
marry again if he valued his peace of
mind. Before she passed away Mrs.
Hebron obtained her sorrowful huS-
bands solemn promise that he would
live ai.d die q widower. The wife died
eontented and was duly buried.
a short time afterward Hebron mar
ried again, taking unto himself bux-
ON widow OF forty summers. Her name
was Mary Chandlee and she was a
Roman Catholic. Hebron immediately
renounced his faith in the Methodist
Episcopal church and embraced Cathol-
Icsm. In many other ways he also
endeavored to show his affection for
his new wife. But the neighbors re-
marked that he was restless and seemed
unwell. He said himself that he could
not sleep. One night he was awakened
from an uneasy siumber by an alarm of
fire. He leaped out of bed, and going
to the window saw the Episcopal church
in flames. He watched the darting
flames for moment, then staggered
back with an expression of horror His
wife asked what was the matter, but he
did not appear 10 hear her. A strange
fascination seemed TO hold him. Sud
denly he shrank back again, placing
his hands before his eyes as if to shut
out an awful vision, and trembling in
every limb.
Sec, q" he cried, 'see, the spirit of my
dead wife comes back to haunt me! o,
Eva, why do YOU reproach met O,
fNnHf1 hn ch,iolynl
this awful curse! See how she sneers
and mutters: AS you loved me IN life,
as you cherish my memory, as you value
your peace of mind, charge you never
to marry again Don't look at me so,
Eva. Your eyes will kill me- Forgive
me, Eva. Do not scorn me. 0 God,
can the dead thus return to the earth
to tantalize those who have wronged
them? Heavens! She brings an army
OF ghastly creatures to end my life Ten
thousand devils. How they jeer and
gibe! Merciful Godr'
The terrified man fell PROSTATE to the
floor with pitiful moan and tainted.
From that night Hebron believed he
was a doomed man. His dreams were
hideous his wakeful moments fright
ful. There always lowered about him,
1t seemed TO his imagination, the haunt
ing spirit OF his buried wife. Darkness
and daylight were the same; the haunt
ing shadow was ever present The man
became monomaniac. One morning
his countenance looked more ghastly
than usual, and he told his friends he
had had horrible dream. He thought
Eya's skeleton lay by his side. The idea
frenzied him. He leaped from the bed
but the specter followed. At length it
pinioned him to the wall with one long,
bony finger. He thought he felt his
life blood ooze from his pierced heart
and drip to the floor. Then he thought
his departed wife licked up his fast
flowing blood with ghoulish greed.
So" she screamed, Il sap the vital
ity of my false husbandn'
This story convinced Hebron's friends
that he was insane, and steps were
about to be taken to have him removed
to an insane asylum when one morning
he was found dead in bed No one
disputed that he died from sheer fright.
His neighbors do not believe that he
was insane, but they think that he was
oversuperstitious. Hebron left a will,
recently made, dividing q few thousand
dollars worth of property between his
wife and his sister Mrs. Hebron has
decided to contest the will on the
ground that her late husband was in
sane when he made it. -NeU York
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