Middletown transcript., 1892-08-04

| She never WavereQ In ncr DelleI LnaC
her husband had come to his end
through foul play, although I must
confess that I myself had strong
| doubts on the point. AS . matter ef
course, not until some absolute proof
should be forthcoming would the
Stork insurance company entertain
Minis claim for $4,000. which her
husband had settled absolutely upon
her within few weeks of their mar
riage.
Not long, however, was it before the
requisite proof was forthcoming, and
that in way as startling as it was
unexpected. had gone to call upon
her one morning on matter of bust.
ness, when I could not help noticing
that she was several times affected by
brief fits of nervous trembling, such
as I had never remarked in her before.
It seemed to me that she was far from
we'll. and SO I told her, recommend
ing at the same time that she should
at once call in medical advice.
"You are mistaken, dear Uncle
Josy," she replied. ~ am not at all
i'll; at least not in the way you think.
I know it is very silly Of me to say
so /; but l have been frightened. Oh.
terribly
'In what way have you been
frightened, my dear ?"
"By dream. You smile, dear
uncle; but wait till have told you
what it was. dreamt it the night
before last and again last night, exact
ly the same dream. Horrible,
horrible !"
She shuddered, and pressed her
fingers to her eyes, and for a few
moments seemed altogether overcome.
| Then she went on to tell me that in
her dream she had seen two men, both
strangers to her, carrying between
them the iasensible body of another
man, which she at once recognized as
that of her husband. Emerging with
their burden from the shelter of the
wood. they carried it up piece of
rising ground beyond, till they reach
ed the summit of a low cliff, close
against the face of which were built
the lime kilns already mentioned.
Then, after swinging the body to and
fro few times, that it might acquire
momentum, they gave it one final
swing. which sent it flying over the
edge of the cliff, full into the wide
gaping mouth Of one of the kilns.
| Such was Minis singular dream as
related by her to me. No wonder
that her nerves were shaken by it after
all she had gone through little while
before.
at dream it third time / shall
feel sure that it is true-that it is a
revelation from the Dead" she said to
me at parting, "and I shall take some
men and have the lime kiln thorough.
ly searched"
Well, according to her account, she
dreamt the same thing again on the
third consecutive night. In any case,
the next morning she got three or four
men together and proceeded with them
to the kilns, and, pointing out one,
ordered them to set to work to dig out
the contents, which had been left un-
disturbed since the day of Phils dis
appearance, when he had ordered the
: fires to be raked out. Sure enough
the men had not been at work many
minutes when they came upon a small
quantity of human bones, all in a
more or less calcined state. Further
J search brought to light skull, two or
three metal buttons and the blade of a
) pocket knife. Everything else had
been wholly destroyed by the action
of the lime.
At the inquest which was held on
} the remains, Crisby, the tailor, deposed
that the buttons found in the kiln were
exactly similar to those on covert
coat he had made for Redmayne few
months before, which coat the latter
was proved to have been wearing on
; the day of his disappearance. Mr..
) Dimes, the dentist, deposed that the
skull produced was short of three teeth,
one in the upper jaw and two in the
lower and that he had himself at diff
ferent times extracted three CORES.
! ponding teeth of Redmayne's. Finally
the knife blade, which was a some
what peculiar one, was sworn to by
; three or four people as being exactly
like one which Phil had been in the
3 habit of carrying. The jury brought
in verdict in accordance with the
evidence, the remains were inferred as
those of Philip Redmayne, and Mimi,
. who was an object Of universal COM
; miseration, now felt herself justified in
putting on widows wedds.
CHAPTER III.
There was no one reason why the
G5, 900 insurance money should moi
be paid, and at the widows request
, , proceeded TO lay her claim before the
! campany. In due course, that is to
saw. after the officials had satisfied