Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-07-25

called the fact thar on Good Friday morn.
ing Kisseck struck the priddle that HUNG
| I'm the inQle and tumbled II into the t1re
| This tangible warning Of apnnoachinO
death the witness had seem with his own
eyes. A third man remembered that Kis-
seek had met a cat when going home on
Ole houiney (HaIloweeu). And n tbesa
demonstrations had counted for little
| there was the remaining and awful fact
that on New Years eve Bridget Kisseck
had raked the fire on going to bed. and
spread the ashes on the floor with thu
tongs, and next morning had found that
print Of a foot pointing toward the door
which was the certain forewarning of death
In the household within year.
They were doubling the point Of Ayre,
with no clear purpose before them and
with some misgivings as to whether they
had done wisely in setting out to sea at all
when the wind fell to dead calm. Then
through the silence and darkness they
heard large drops Of rain fall on the deck
Presently there came torrent, which last
| ed nearly an hour The men turned in
Only Danny and the body remained on
deck Still the lad could see the glow of
the fire on the cliff, which was now miles
away. When the rain ceased, the darkness,
which had been all but palpable, lifted
away, and the stars came out. Toward 8
In the morning the moon rose but 1t was
soon concealed by a dense black turret
cloud that reared itself upward from the
horizon. All this time the fishing boat lay
motionless, with only the lap of the waters
heard about her.
The stars died off. The darkness came
again, and then, far on in the night, the
first gray streaks stretching along the east
foretold the dawn. Over the confines of
another night the soft daylight was break
ing, but more utterly lonely, more void,
more full of dread and foreboding was tho
great waste of waters now that the strid-
Ing light was chasing the curling mists
than when the night was dead and dark
ness covered the sea. On one side of them
no other object on the waters was visible
until sky and ocean met in that great half
circle far away. On the other side was the
land which they called home, from which
they had fed to which they dare not re-
turn.
Still not breath OF wind The boat
was drifting south. The men came up
from below. The cold white face on the
deck looked up at them and at heaven
we must put IL away, said one in a low
murmur. AYE, said another Not q
second word was spoken. A man went be-
low and brought up an old sail. Two
heavy iron weights, used for holding down
the nets, were fetched up from the hold.
There was no singing out. They took up
what lay there cold and stiff and wrapped
ha
weights at the head and another at the feet.
maLar;s needle and str;no and hoo.n -
st;tcb II nm
"W;Il the str;no bold9n astea anothor
SIS n c+ron,. onouobpn
l.It viii Iest hi,,7 +b;s xorao,o o,,+ az,
sbort ono poor foIloyu -
Ave and silarce cot or tho cro1y
Dannv his aves s,,ff,sad With nm nm
eortblv i;oht yvotebod +hoir r,ovo,,,o,,+s
last night. n dull dense aching at his heart
was all tbe consciousness be had and tben
tbe world was dead to him Later On a
fintterine, vitbin him nrecadad the rot,,rr
of an o9onizing sense Had be NOT cont
bis nncle to nerd;tion5 That he had taLan
a warm human life. thar Kissacl, who
had been alive law dead n few feet. ayyav
fron, bi,n-th;s ,yos as notb;no 70 tho bor.
rihle tbongbt that bis nncle 8 hard man
q hrrtol ,nop a s;nfr,I ,por nod boo,, cont
bv bis hand hot and nnnranarod to an
ayerlasting hell "Ob can this have han
nenedp" his hexvildered mind asked itself a
tbonsand times as II a,yoka nc often from,
the half dream of n stunned and naralvzed
consciousness Yet IL was true that srcb
a thing had occurred No It was NOT a
mgnnmare. he would never never awake
IN the morning sunlight ana smile to
know that 1t was not true. NO, no-true,
crue. 1fue IL was even uhIli the Gay OF
luogment, ana ne ana Alsseck stood once
more Iace TO race:
Danny watched the Old man when he
whispered INTO the dead ear the words OF
the mystic charm. He turned his eyes to
tne sinuous trail OF light behind him. All
nlgnt long no lay on deck with only the
aeao ior company. He saw the other men,
Du5 oiu not speak 20 them. IL was as
though ne hlmselr were already being OF
another world and could hold no COM
merce with his Kind
he thougnt OF Mona, and then MS heart
was near to breaking. With dumb long
ing ms eyes turned through the darkness
toward the Land. The boat that was sail
ing before the wind was carrying him
away from her forever. 10 his spiritual
ized sense the water that divided them was
as the river that would flow for all eternity
between the blessed and the damned.
The last ray OF hope was flying away.
1t had once visited him, like CLEAN OF
sunlight that though he might never clasp
her hand on earth, In heaven she would
yet be his, to love forever and ever But
now between them the great gulf was
liked.
When the gray dawn came In the east,
Danny still lay in the bow, haggard and
pale. The unearthly light that now fired
his eyes was the first word Of fearful
tale. A witch's Sabbath, a devils revel-
ry, had begun in his distracted brain. In