The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-12-02

immediately To Marseilles, departed
for the seat of his ancestors, after an
absence of ten years. There he found
that tie narration of the murder of
LIE Brun YVES but too true. Under the
tree that had been so minutely de-
scribed TO him he found the manglei
remains, which he caused 20 be de-
Gently inferred in the family vault. In
vain, however, he made search for the
murderers. The same causes which
occasioned the death of the unfortunate
lie Brun led the tenants to the most
obstinate concealment of the manner
Of it, and Valette saw, with horror and
regret, the misery they had suffered
that he might be furnished with the
means of extravaganza.
Had | imagined" he exclaimed,
THAT my unsatisfactory pleasures
would have cost so dear, / would long
since have retired from Paris. | shall
return to my estate Immediately, that
my children may learn TO relish it's
tranquil pleasures
Nj. Valette no sooner returned To
Paris than he communicated his reso-
luton to his wife. Nine. Valette, hav-
ing accomplished the principal object
of her residence in Paris-the educa-
tion of her family-assented with
pleasure TO return, and in little more
than year they found themselves
again in the chateau of their an
cestors
About eight years after their return
from Paris, the family mansion de-
manding repairs, they found il neces-
sary to remove for some time to Mar
seilles, where they resided i'll the
house of NJ. Danville, the father Of
Nine Valette.
Time had effaced the impression of
his dream from the mind of Valette.
Sitting one night after supper in the
midst of his family, loud md sud
den knocking was heard at the gate !;
but when the servant went to open il,
he found nobody without. After II
short interval the same loud knocking
was again heard, and one of Valette's s
sons accompanied the servant to the
gate TO see who demanded admittancc
at SO unreasonable an hour. To their
astonishment no one was 10 be seen
there. A third time the knocking was
repeated, still louder and louder, and
sudden thought darted across the
mind of Valette.
81 will go to the gate myself, said
he; 81 believe know who it is that
knocks
His presenC7Inent was too truly re-
allied. AS he opened the gate lie
Brun appeared, and whispered to him
that next night at the same time-for
il was now the twelfth hour-he must
prepare himself TO leave the world.
Then, waving his hand, as if to bid
adieu, lie Brun disappeared.
VI. Nalette returned, ghGstly as the
phantom he had seen, TO the family
circle; and, upon their anxious and
urgent inquiries as TO the cause Of his
uneasiness, related for the first time
the incident OF the dream and the
promised warning he had just received
A sudden gloom and melancholy was
spread over the faces Of all present
Nine Valette threw her arms round
the neck of her husband and embraced
him with tears. NJ. Danville, how
ever, obstinately declared his incred-
ulity, and considered the whole as one
of those unaccountablc illusions TO
which even the strongest minds are
sometimes liable. He declared his
son-in-law must be the victim Of
some delusion, and, although he could
not account for his dream, said that
this last vision must be mere imagina-
tion.
No sooner had VI. Yalette retired TO
his apartment than NJ Danville en-
deavored TO impress the same opinion
on the family of his son.in-law. APP
prehensive lest the very presentiment
of the event might occasion it, or at
least be attended by disagreeable CON
sequence, he thought Of a device
which, as Mayor of the city, it was in
his power easily 10 accomplish, This
was 20 cause al the clocks Of Mar
seilles TO be put forward one houI
that they might strike the predicted
hour of twelve next night when it
should be only eleven; so that when
the time set by the ghost should be
believed by Valette to have passed
over without any event superyening
he might be persuaded 10 give up the
fancies with which he was so deeply
impressed.
Next day the unhappy Valette made
every effort TO arrange his worldly az
fairs, had his will executed in due
legal form, received the sacrament,
and prepared himself for the awful
event he anticipated. The evening ap-
proached. From large open window
which looked into a beautiful garden,
be saw the sun go down, as he believed,
for the last time.
The lamps were now Lighted in the
ball, and he sat in the midst Of his
family and partook OF the last supper
which, he believed, he was TO eat upon
earth. The clocks OF Marseilles tolled
the eleventh hour.
"My dearest Marie. said he 20 Nine