The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-04-11
shook me by the arm. and woke me thor.

went to the window. and found that tn,
rain had ceased. told him this.
VIII go out; take me down to the door.
| led him down stairs. and gave him hi.
umbrella and hat. Then I took mine ant
opened the door quietly, fearing to awake
| Euith. would have accompanied him. bu
| nc refused, saying night and day were alike
| to him. and he knew his way along the
paths and about tho lawn.
20 PACK to your room and fasten your
sell m, he said; 1T is our only security
Tap at the window to let me know that All
! Is last. L beg you to do this" he added
earnestly; you cannot understand the feel
lngs OF man in my position-the torture
Oh conscious impotency as you feel the ap-
alout pnoatcnnihS tate that you are powerless to
nis 'Iivo ra,.ivu n pniv,.v,- .---,.--
tinctly heard him mutter. as he CROPPED his
way along the wall OF the terrace:
"Cramped in a coffin. and the clods fall
ing, fulling-
| closed the door, and returned to my room
with shuddcr.
When had fastened myself in I tapped Mt
the window. aud Van Hoeck replied by tap
ping on the wall below.
The fresh air had revived me; I had no
longer to struggle with an Irresistible drow-
siness-the inclination to sleepwas gone.
had my book to finish, but my mind was
not sufficiently composed to read. As /
walked about the room I thought of Edith
and of Van Hoeck, wondering If there could
lucination and the terrible prcsentiment
which night and day possessed him. II
seemed rs If there must be something alb
normal in the conditions under which we
lived, to produce an effect which. though
characterized by different peculiaritics, was
In both cases attributable only to u disor-
dcrcd imagination. and wondered IL I. in
my turn, should come under this occult in
fiuencc.
I might have been occupied with the
speculation for half an hour, whom / heard
scream of terror that l could not doubt
came from the wing i'm which Edith lay. In
through the corridor. The doors in the
picture gallery were open. As drew aside
the curtains which closed in the staircase
corridor OF the left wing, / saw Sir Edmund
come from his room with u lamp. The door
at Ediths room exactly faced his; IL was
wide open; all was dark within.
What is it. my dear. what Is it?" he
cul!cd. us he entered the room.
There was no answer.
followed to the door. Sir Edmund was
standing by the empty bed. looking around
him in blank dismay.
e%hc l. gone" he gaspcd. The door was
wide open--"
The bed stood away from tho wall I bade
Sir Edmund look on the further side.
There was scarcely room for him to pass
between the loot of the bed and the wall.
but as he lowered the light he said. in quick
alarm:
she is hcre..unconscious. Ring the bell
for the women"
l ran to the bell and rang it violently:
then from the stairs in the cross gallery
called To the servants 10 come down. In
the meanwhile Sir Edmund had raised
Edith and placed her on the bed, where she
lay like one dead.
From his room got spirit case, but we
knew not how to apply the remedies at our
hand and it was an intense relief to us
nsn houseke3$er bus tied a. IN. 1oliowsd
The door and stood odva thene eHe
trembling from head to foot. ~ ,, Co.,
l had taken Edith's hand, and the Icy
coldness of the lifelcss fingers that ! had
only known quick with warm blood chilled
my very heart with fear.
There was n long period oi terripie sus-
pcnsc, and then | heard the dear voice
murmur. and. my heart bounding with Joy,
| vcnturcd forward that might see the life
once moro in her bcautiiul lace, DIT Eo-
mund stopped me on tho threshold.
Thank GOd!' he said, fcrrently. she mas
come lack to us; but tho women say she
must be kept quiet. Go back to your room.
nv dear fellow. and we will talk 1t all over
| at breakfast time. Goodnight. good
night"
! / returned reluctantly to my room. AS i
passed his chamber heard the Judge snor-
| ing loud and long.
| II needed something more than such
triiles to wake him when he had bed 10
| sleep in.
| What air >ady puzzled me was how Edith :
door came to- DO wide oren when she had
| tainted in u quite remote part cf the room
CHAPTER IX.
What happened in .diths room that nigh
| did not learn until the next morning. bu
| | will give her account i'm this place IN order
toprsscrye s the ssgIegnesS $40 Ct MY %xents t win
| dow open and the blind down. exactly as or
| tho preceding nights. 1t was her habit Il
lock the door. and that sho did not omit tc
| do so on this occasion she was convince.
by the fact that she found some difficulty II
turning the key, and had atterward triet
| the handle To- know il the bolt was shot
Skc left the lamp burning on tho table
screened from her by the lace curtains o
tho bed. 1t was past eleven when she la!
down, and she felt So little fear that she fol
asleep almost Immediately.
a pillow slipping from beneath her hca
awokc her. she believed. Her first con
sciousncss was that her head felt uncom
fortably low. She put her hand out to fin
it she had slipped to TN" edge "f the bed
but no. hcr position was unchanged.
Then it struck her that she hnd left
light on tho table; it was now ont. and a
was dark.
She wondered if this was u trick Of i'm
aGination. Was she awake or asleep? Sh
touched her eyes to 20 sure they were open
Then il occurred to her that shc might hav
been asleep u long while. There was moth
ing extraordinary in her lamp going out. "
ing this to herself, she felt for the pillows.
| 80 her aStOniShmcnt she found that bot
were gone.
1t was droll. She felt inclined To laugh
thinking how she must have tossed ahou
i'm her sleep to knock both pillows out. Bu
the bed-clothcs were perfectly smooth. In
bed on each side of her even. soft and yield
| ing. That was strange!
| Il must have done all tho tossing with m
| head" she said to herself. still ticklcd b
the oddity of the thing.
| Ono thing wns ccrtain-sho could no
sleep in comfort with nothing but IL bolstc
under her head.
She leaned out and felt upon the floor u
far aS she could reach to the right Tn
| pillows had not e'i"n"d ont on tI'"' .
| Then puttino he. "'np,'. - --...
| she iru down . ou.cr shoulder uoni,.,' '.h' ,h
ing there. V on tn" LEFT. There was .'' -"
ton. ! / 'S' DE new freak OF the in"'o,i imngi,
Tho one ,s%", Il, not yet tho~cuybIv fr,,,,
- spirit Wh.aQ would stnaJ bcr ,;'i
must have some . sense OF humnr. PHO o
preferable to drumming ",sn tbn ,,i ~
deray ino its co ie, that som"ihin%SS 1l%SP gat4 j.
ran tHroIeJbo ionic mic aspect. and = tcrribIr i,
easier to Striking Ighi" hi"oIGht Of ' ect,, shy
Aftsr Ten darkness rs tbi. IN fayIsshI, $50 muc
inst It'll" bnvanns ,n ns'nraI waytW hat slid or,