Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-10

those holy names was quite inaudlble.
1 felt that to stand up and in the name
of Jesus Christ bid the specter go would
be an act of war, so to speak, and that
as long as it should leave me alone and
not come nearer it would be more pru-
dent not to proceed to such extremities.
This was nc doubt weak, but allow
ances must be made for my very help
less condition, inmured here, far from
men, in this tomb, with fellow tenant
of that horrible character. So far the
ghost had not interfered with me. On
this the third appearance of the specter
its shape, outline and the interior lines
and colors We're completely and distinct
ly visible. I saw now pass before me,
with long, steady and even stride, not
indeed the tallest man have ever seen,
but among the tallest. have never
seen nor ever cared to see one of those
unfortunate human beings who are
hawked about the world as a spectacle
and show ON account of their proGi-
gious size. The man who now almost
exactly at 10 o'clock began to pass and
repass, few yards away from me, was
as tall as one of the taller of the Dub
lin policemen, of proportions CORE
spending with his height and indeed
very finely formed. The something
which 1 had formerly noticed as glitter
ing upon his breast I now saw to be a
round wheel, seemingly of gold, but
why the man wore a wheel on his breast
I could not at first understand. After
he had passed and repassed few times
I discovered that it was a brooch. l
could see the two ends of the pin of this
brooch, one knobbed on the man. right
shoulder and the other pointed ON his
left. They went straight across his chest,
of course piercing the mantle and keep
ing it close to his figure at this point.
His head was quite bare. His hair, yell
lowish or rather sandy, neither lustrous
nor curling, fell on his shoulders. His
beard and mustache, the beard espe-
cially, were not exactly red, but more
inclined to red than the hair of his
head. His mantle was dark crimson,
with loose threads, apparently of gold
thread or thread stained to that resem-
blance, fattening ON the edges. What
I had at first imagined to be kilt I
now saw was only the lower part of
by dark red belt and falling thence
in loose folds to his knees. 1t was striped
vertically, white and red. He wore
shoes of some brown or dun color, but
with clasps of some description of met
al which l could just perceive shining.
The light seldom fell on his feet. l
could not perceive that he wore any
stockings. When he went toward the
interior from the entrance of the cave,
could see distinctly short sword, which
hung down quite vertically on his left
thigh. The scabbard seemed to be made
of some reddish kind of wood. 1t was
fastened with bright beaded rivets
and was shod at either end with sub
stance which looked like gold, but was
brighter The handle of the sword look
ed like ivory, but was rather duller in
hue han ivory should be. Otherwise he
was unarmed. In fact, altogether he
presented the appearance of warrior
of ancient times. His right arm always
hung down by his side. The left hand
was passed under the mantle and lay ON
his breast, having hold upon something
there, l fancy upon the strap of his
sword-what antiquarians, think, call
baldrick. His head was bent little
forward, and his shoulders were slightly
rounded. At all events his gait was
not quite erect. His attitude was that
of man bordering profoundly upon
some intricate problem and pacing to
and fro quite immersed in calculations
and nominations concerning its solution.
Though watched him pass and repass
at least hundred times, his carriage and
mode of holding his hands never varied
in the least from what have described.
His bearing, l say, was that of man
deeply rejecting, but then there was no
sign or token of reflection whatsoever
in his face. There was truly no spec
ulation in those eyes. Otherwise his
face suggested life rather than death,
for it was of a good color, somewhat
rudy in the cheeks and we'll bronZed
otherwise. The eyes alone, SO wide open,
staring and lusterless, suggested death.
AS to his age, he seemed to be about 40
I may add, at the risk of being too mi
mute, that on his brooch were FIVE good
sized eyes of glass or some substance
duller than glass, and that on his left
temple there was a scar running from
the roots OF his hair to the outer e4-
tremity of the corresponding eyebrow:
/ had plenty of time and opportunity to
make these observations. for after his
second appearance the ghost continued
to walk every night exactly at IL o clock
and ceased to walk at half past 2. In
variably also his walking termin ated in
the interior portion of the cave and i'll
that ,,allcry at the end of which was
thes,rungc tomb which have described.
AlthoU Ii the reader will of course
attIi ate this apparition wholly to the
diseased state Ct my nerves and imagi-
nation, and although such Is my own
belief. too, in sense, yet it is singular
that the apparition, supposing such to
be its origin, should have assumed exact
ly this form and garb. l never fGw a
man dressed in that style. l had never
even seen a picture of man go dressed,
for although the flowing mantle, long
hair, straight hanging sword and kilt
form the usual get up of antique war
riors on the stage or in pictures, the big
brooch was quite strange and novel even
to my imagination. Such antique war
riors, too, in pictures or on the stage,
appear garteTed to the knee and always
carry shield on their arms or strap.
ped to their backs. This figure had no
shield, apparently no stockings and GER
tainly no carriers. Consequently, If the
apparition sprang from my imagination,
and from the imagination projected
itself into visuality in this remarkable
manner, my imagination was able to
produce something that my eyes had
never seen either in the world of reality
or in the world of art and something
that the imagination had never at any
time consciously conceived at all. An
other singular circumstance is this: I
knew that this cave was the cave of
Curry, the smuggler. 1 had already as
ISOLATED the idea of the tomb which
had discovered with him. Now, my