New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-01

he Very much scared and very hysterical. MIS-.
Carwcll ran down to her room and got sone
companions about her. aud wept ana talked anu
drank mare than one cordial. and talked ana "epc
again. and on. until. in those early days. IL WAS
10 O'Clock. and time to 20 TO bed.
A scullery maid remained up. finishing some OIL
her securing and scaldirg.' for some time aiter
tine other servants that night had got - nelf
beds This was u lOw-browcd. broad-faced IN
trepid wcnch. with black hair. who did not vallS
a ghost not button and treated the nOuSe-
keepers Mysteries with measuTelcss scorn; She
hummed tunes to herself for time, aAd theh
stopped and listened. and then resumed her work
again. At last. she was destined to be more Ter
ried than even was the hOusekeeDer.
There was IA back kitchen in this house and
from this she heard. If coming from below It's
foundations. q sound like heavy strokes. that
seemed TO shake the earth beneath her feet. Some
times Il dozen in sequence. at regular intervals !;
sometimes fewer. She walked out softly into the
passage. and was surprised to see n duSky glow
issuing from this room, as If from charcoal hre.
The room seemed thick with smoke. Looking IN
she very dmlv beheld mOnsrOuS fAure, over a
furnace. beating with mighty hammer me rings
heavy as they looked. sounded hollow and distant
The man stopped. and pointed TO something on
she thought. like dead body. She remarked no
more but the servants in the room close by,
startled from their sleep By a terrible scream,
found her in n swoOn on the flags. close TO the
door. where she had lust witnessed this CHASTITY
vision.
Startled by the girls incoherent reservations
that she had seen the Judges corpse on the iloor,
two servants having first searched the lower
part Of the house. went rather frightened upstairs
TO inquire whether their master was wei. lhey
found him. not in his bed. but in his room lie
had n table with candles burning at his bedside
and was getting sn his clothes again; and he
sworc and cursed al them roundly in his old style
telling them that he had business. and that lie
would discharge on the spot any scOundrel who
should dare TO disturb him again. SO the invalid
was left to his Quietude.
In the morning il was rumored here and there
in the street that the Judge was dead. servant
was sent from the house: three doors away by
Counsellor Traverse. TO inquire at Judge Iiar-
bottles hal-door. The servant who opened it
was pale and reserved. and would only say that
the fudge was ILL., He had had dangerous acct
dent Dr. lIedstonc had been with him at
o'clock in the morning. There were avertcd
looks. short answers pale and frowning faces.
and all the usual signs that there was secret
that sat heavily upon their minds. and the time
for disclosing which had not vet come. That
time would come when Ne coroner had arrived.
and the mortal scandal that had hefallen the
house could be no longer hidden. For that morn
ing Mr. Justice Harhottle had been found hanging
by the neck from the oak rail at the TOP OF the
great staircase. and quite dead.
There was not the smallest sign OF any struggle
or resistance. There had not been heard cry
or any other noise in the slightest degree lndi-
cotiye of violence There was medical evidence
10 show that in his atrabous state. it was quite
on the cards that he might have made away with
himself The Jury found accordingly that it was
"A case of suicide. But Ia those who were ac-
uuaintpd with the strange story which Judge
Tlarhotte had related TO al least two persons. the
fact that the catastrophe occurred on the tenth
of the month seemed n startling coincidence.
few days after. the pOmp OF great funeral
attended him 10 the and so. In the language
Of Scripture /" the rich man died and was buried
-Argonout.