Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-05-03

rides as madIy as this, he hath done well
10 marry again 50 soon. lest the race Of
Keretsenyi should end with him
He hath uaught 90 fear N that score,
nephew,' answered the older man sol
EMMY. 1T was forctold e. him long
ago. bv "a tongue which cannot lie. that
no living thing, man OF beast. shall have
power 10 touch his life. and that, when
his hour comes. he shall go down alive
into the grave
Madeleine WAS almost ashamed to find
how immrlsurably relieved she felt by
Kerrt-euyi's departure; but before many
DAYS were over she had good cause ID
wish him back again. In that hfcicss
ATMOSPHERE the exciting influence Of
his fierce frvcri,h vitality wa, like the
plunge Of AN avalanche into "a still
mountain lake; and now that he was
gone the gloom and silence and utter
Loneliness Of tins abode of the dead were
almost more thar she could bear.
Ii was not long, too, before she dis
covered that the ghOstlike attendants
who peoplel her solitude We're keeping -
stealthv but i%nccssant watch upon Al
her movements, which was even harder
. 70 endure than the Jealous vigilance II
her terrible bridegroom had been. When
she strOlled through the neglected garden
OF the wide. hare courtyard, she would
suddenly catch sight Of a black robed,
silent form dogging her steps like a
haunting shadow. She could not walk
the battlements without seeing a pale.
lean, cOrpselike face peerng ont at her
f. .N.,rnrnn 1LnnhaNn No On
position. indeed. was made to the con-
tnnance Of her morning ndes. but when
ever she ordered out her hOrss two Of
the mute phantoms that guarded her in
stantly mounted their horses 70 bear her
oomIany. Il wa plain that for any
victim once caught in these fatal tolls
there wa no escape bat death; and she
felt instinctively that death itself wa
already lowering over her, and that ia
stroke would not be long delayed.
And now came a passing spell Of ve'
and stormy weather that lasted for sev-
eral DAYS. during which Msdeleine, un'
able To venture out. employed her en-
forced leisure in exploring the interior
of the castle, many parts Of which wer'
still quite new u her. She was al the
|, more inclined 70 occupy berssf in TIM
, way because herr. and here alone, sh'
| was left unmOLsted by the oeaseles.
vigilance 81 the spies who logged he
every movement elsewhene.
|, In the ouurse Of one Of these ramble
1 she came upon a long, narrow, gloon!
e uassagr. which she followed without
knowing why. The room that 0Ieue'
b out q Il bUrr such marks II neglect AM
d decay NJ showed that they must hav
2 lain uuinhauitel for year, but mldwa.
Il along the corridor she met with au eve.
4. more striking token II di,u- a aban
donm-ut-th. doorway # a room whic
had h--u actually built up. az If II wer
never a. b. occupied again.
This Of itself would have been uothln
very remarkable IN such a place, bu
e. Madeleine was startled 20 perceive b
. the freshness Of the work that this roor
p must have b,en CLOSED up within the La
n few var.
Of what dark and mysterious TRACED
had theSe yOlceless stones been the nut
witness~. Had her terrible husband. iii
other men Of whom she had read. vale
D. up one Of ms enemies alive IN dl
l. NAL retreat u perish by the slow tor
ure Of thirst and famine, or had ho:-
But at that thought she dung Out he
hands wildly. as IL thrusting away frol
her some horrible spsscter, and was Ju
H. turning % 90 back when she hapqene
10 notice that one II the posts Of IN
blocked mp door hal parted slight
from the surrounding woodwork, lea
II ing a crack through which It was Poss
10 Die to So into the mysterious chamber
A. Driven by an impulse beyond her co
troll she crppt up 10 it and peeps
a through.
n There was not much % be seen with
n after all-onlv a bare, dusty. unfuruish'
,h room. at the farther end 81 which hun
= a black curtain. But a strange horr
TX fell suddenly upon her a. she gazed, an
~ Swinging back a. If from the edge Of
m precipice. she turned and fed away.
Two DAYS after Madeleine was wa
n dering aimlessly along a tapestned q
lery which she had not seen before, VIII
her foot slipped and she fell with sol
,is foros against the wall To her surpr
d. the wall seemed 10 yield with her, a
nd she guessed that she mnsthave accidea
ng ally touched the spring Of some seci
panel. She lifted the tapestry, push
IN back an oaken panel which was stan
nj ing ajar behind il, and found herself
"A with what feeling may be easily ina
X ined-in the mysterious with {
inn black curtain.
For one moment she stood mOtionle
CHANGING round her with a secret hon
AT which she could neither understand I
he resist.
The door which had been walled
nv when thus seen from the inside, 1
peared 10 be a massive framework
or solid black oak, clamped and band
vn with iron and the sight of 1t increas
Madeleine's terror, as she thought h
or fnghtful that secret must be for VIII
me even such defenses as these were
ole counted insufficient.
,ep The room was covered 50 thickly VI
,ad dust that her first step into II had stir