The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-04-19
the lady suddenly awakened from

the lady suddenly awakened from
sleep and exclaimed:
Stop! I am sure some one is
hurrying after u.s.
Madame is mistaken" said the
driver: there is no one behind u.s."
81 hear horse"
These words we're uttered with
such entire conviction that l again
looked from the window.
AS before the road was completely
deserted.
cit is impossible, said I; "there
is no horseman within sight,
'How can that be;' she answer
ed, when l see the shadows of both
horses and manH'
looked in the direction in which
she pointed, and saw distinctly the
shadows of which she spoke; but in
vain did 1 look for the bodies to
which they belonged.
begged the priest to take notice
of this singular phenomenou-and
we all saw the shadows gradually
fade away, until at last they entire
ly disappeared.
Whether from the natural prog
ress of her disease, or from her
mental anxieties, the lady became
so i'll after reaching Thun that she
was compelled to pursue her Jour
nev in litter, and on her arrival at
Louesche she was dangerously i'll
for more than a month.
Her presentiments had been only
too we'll founded, for her husband
had been seized, within a few hours
after her departure, by brain fever.
The malady had made such rapid
progress that the same day he sent
a courier on horseback to beg her to
return. Between Laoffen and Brett
ienback the horse had mbled,
thrown his rider, and SO injured him
that he was carried to an inn, and
was able only to send word to his
master that he could not go fur
Their.
Another courier was at once dis
patched but til ey seemed to be pur-
sued by fata lily, for at Schwal-
bach he was crushed by an ava
lanche.
During all these delays the fever
had increased; the sick mans head
had been shaved to apply ice. Up
to that moment the poor fellow had
cheri shed some hope of recovery;
but now he took advantage of an in
terval of calmness and wrote to his
wife few lines.
81 am dying, but I cannot make
up my mind to leave you entirely.
Have bracelet made of the hair
that has been cut from my head
wear it always, and we shall seem
to be once more unit ted"
That evening he was dead, and an
hour afterwards a courier, more
fortunate than his predecessors,
left Basic and reached the lady in
safety. She at once determined on
returning to her desolate home, and
I begged permission to accompany
her.
We arrived at Basic in five days.
Nothing could be imagined more
melancholy than the return of this
widow to her house. I sent for the
physician who had been With her
husband, and for their few friends,
for relatives she had none.
She asked for the hair. The
physician remembered that the
head of his patient had been shaved
the barber remembered doing so;
but that was all. The hair was
lost.
The wife was in despair. The only
wish of her husband could not be
obeyed-no bracelet could be made
of his hair.
Days and nights passed away.
AS soon as she lay down, or rather
as she fell asleep, she felt her right
arm chilled and benumbed. The
sensation commenced at the wrist
around which she felt a pressure as
of an iron bracelet.
The widow resolved to open the
grave, and, if her husbands head
had not been entirely shorn, she
hoped to obtain hair enough for
bracelet. She sent for the grave
digger, but the one who had buried
her husband was dead, and his sue
cessor did not know where the tomb
was. Then. longing and hoping for
revelation, she went alone to the
cemetery and seated herself on
hillock and waited for some sign
that should tell her what to do.
The dance of death was painted
on the walls of the cemetery.
She looked at the principal figure
the skeleton, at once SO grotesque
and horrible.
Then she saw Death lift his long
arm, and with his forefinger point
to one particular tomb in the midst
of the others. The widow rose and
went to this tomb, and the arm Of
the skeleton fell at his side.
She made mark on the tomb.
She brought the grave-digger.
He is there" she said.
The grave-digger hesitated to lift
the lid of the coffin.
Quick" cried the wife; 'my
hus band lies within" He obeyed,
for the woman had such entire self
confidence that we were all led by
her.
Not only was the body that of her
usband; not only was all the fea-
lures unchanged; but, although his
head had been shorn the day of his
death, the hair had SO grown that
in it's abundance it filled all the
space left in the coffin.
The bracelet was made, and from
that day the benumbing clasp
ceased. Only at times, when she
was in danger, she felt slight
pressure from the bracelet as in
friendly warning.