News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-06

tuAe turough the strange, magnetic IL
tiuence he had acquired over his daugl
ter. She at one time had wished t
marry him, but had been made, it is sale
to see his perfdy before it was too late
The locket, l supposed, had been Mr..
r Berholfs. and the maid who used thi
|, passage for her midnight meeting proba
bly, had stolen it.
Putting the jewel in my pocket / be
OF gan again, with the aid of candle.
r fresh search for hidden springs. 1 re
Id turned to the further end of the gallery
O. as that surface was a smaller one to lool
Os over. had passed many times from
IL end to end of the smooth stone, pressine
each spot separately, before l noticed ;
g mere pin point where the stone seemed
l. slightly roughened. l pressed it. A
a door swung quickly open on noiseless
s fabric across my cheek. 1 freed myself
II from the material and looked around
j. me. The bright moonlight through a
8 large window, showed me my own room
y | went to the door, 1t was bolted, as
:, l had left it. My room, then, was in
the secret passage route. | examined
!, the paneled wall, but could discover no
sign of doorway, and rs there was
3 nothing to be developed by conjectures,
I soon fell asleep.
| Twice during the following day 1
sought an interview with Mrs. Herholf.
but WAS unable to see her
Worn out with my watch of the night
before, retired early and soon fell into
a heavy sleep, from which the oppres-
sive sultriness of the night reused me.
| went to the window. The thick dark
ness was only the more manifest by the
occasional brilliant flashes in the south
which foretold of an approaching storm.
L was seated by an open window close
to the tapestried wall.
Suddenly seemed to hear or feel a
human breath. / caught my own, and
listened with an intensity of purpose
which defeated its own object. The
blood whirred in O heavily pulsing
/ stream past my ears in its round to and /
/ from the brain. Like flash, the white, |
floating, illuminate figure came and !
melted away at the other end of the /
wall, rs felt through the tapestry cur
tam the contact of a passing human fig
ure close by me. ..z
Now knew that what I had seen had
been reflection No wonder it had
waited few seconds and then sin
!
to know last night, entered the gal
lery. 1t was, as 1 expected to find it,
dark and empty. L CROPPED my way
slowly to the lower end. A strong blast
of wind and the beating of rain on the
wall outside announced the arrival of the
storm.
A strong glare overhead made me for
the first time aware that light from the
outer world entered here. l now saw
above Inc glass plate, clear, but very
heavy, semi-circalar in form and semi
horizontal in position; doubtless unno-
ticeable from without, but concentrating
in daytime fair light on the table.
| was determined to await my visitors /
return, and looked about for hiding
place. A jutting corner offered the shell
ter 1 sought. 1 stepped into it, and as
/ did SO dislodged some material which /
must have hung on a peg above me, and .
which fell, covering my head and shoul- /
ders in soft, close, yet metallic folds. L /
threw it quickly off, and it fell to the .
floor in heap which glittered strangely /
in the flashes of light l took it up |
quickly and bore it to the nearer light. /
1t was blindingly dazzling-a curiously /
wrought suit of finest silver wire, soft
Al d yielding as silk. / folded it, as [ /
might have done silk handkerchief, !
and put it into my pocket. L was no
longer at a loss for my nightly visitors /
silvery whiteness
A half hour more had passed. There /
was sudden rush Of air from the outer
world, bearing with it the increased
sound of water pouring heavily down. |
Steps upon the stone pavement, and L
knew myself, at last, shut in with the
Ghost of Penares.
/ listened with beating heart. The |
tones of mans voice fell on my ear, fol- |
lowed by those of a woman in reply. /
Both were suppressed, but L could oc-
casionally distinguish word, or detach- !
ed parts of sometimes with /
tender infection, more usually with
eager accent and indicating an absorb /
ing topic.
Once the mans tones became quite |
clear.
"White powder. if the drops can't
answer. Remember, by Thursday
beats forty-fve--"
A sudden peal of deafening thunder
/ drowned the tones, and when could
/ distinguish them again he was saying:
''Be sure of your work. We shall have
nothing to fear-everything to hope"
A few moments silence, then whisper |
ell words | guessed through the dark
ness that he was leaving her. By sad |
den fash saw him bend over the table, |
and lifting the waiter disclose an open !
ing, from which he took roll of papers. |
He placed them in his breast and turn |
ed to the door. Again he turned, folded !
his companion in a passionate embrace,
and was gone!
The storm was now at its height.
/ Waves of wind and water seemed testing
/ the house to its foundation. Peal after
peal of thunder reverbeTated on my ears.
| Suddenly binding fash of lightning
| came, like a stream of liquid fire, pour
! ing through the crescent, permeating,
as it were, the entire gallery and out
! lining each stone in the mouldy wall.
/ The woman seemed enveloped in
! flames as tongues of fire played around
her figure. The deafening peal of
/ thunder l was dimly conscious of as L
| fell to the floor stunned and blinded.
When [ recovered my consciousness
/ it was with q woman's shrek resoundlng
! in my ears. BY the fitful illumination
/ from the lightning / found that | was
alone. l went to the table and lighted
the candle; no fixed purpose inducing
me, perhaps, stiTl not quite recovered
from the electric shock. Mechanically
1 picked up the copper waiter which
now lay on the floor, and which L had
seen, when tie vivid lightning had come,
in the wOman's hand.
I started at the sight of it. It's former
glittering surface was no longer; burnt
into it and confronting me were the
eatures of well-knOwn face. How
we'll knew those long, almond eyes
that gracefully curved chin the thin,
tightly compl essed lips
/ recalled some broken sentences:
"Drops not strong enough-white pow
der beats forty five all over"
A sudden, rrible suspicion broke
upon me as Reynolds Herholfs ghastly
fare, growing thinner and thinner daily
rose before me. She was giving him