Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-09


| hearing from LIE Brun. l need money,
and my demands have not been met"
Night came again. and about the hour
of midnight lie Brun again appeared.
There was an evident frown on his
countenance, and he inquired Of Va
lette why he had delayed in fulfilling
| his request. Valette again promised
| immediate obedience, and was no long
er disturbed by the unwelcome intrud-
| er. Morning came again.
1T must still be dream" said he to
| himself, though a remarkable one, GER
| tainly. To-day will probably bring me
| the expected letters from LIE Brun."
The third night the vision appeared
with a terrible frown on it's counte-
nance. 1t reproached Valette for his
want of friendship to the man whose
blood had been spilled in his cause and
! for disregarding the peace Of his soul.
IF you will grant my request" said
| the phantom Il promise to give you
| twenty-four hours warning of the time
| of your own death, to arrange your af-
| fairs and to make your peace with
| God"
NJ. Valette promised in the most sol
emn manner that he would set off the
| next morning for Marseilles to execute
the commission, and the apparition Of
| LIE Brun disappeared.
Valette rose early the next day, and
alleging to his family that business Of
the most urgent necessity called him
Immediately to Marseilles, departed for
the seat of his ancestors, after an alb
sence of ten years. There he found
that the narration of LIE Brun was but
too true. Under the tree that had been
so minutely described to him he found
the mangled remains, which he caused
to be decently 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 ten
ants 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 furnish
ed with the means of extravaganza.
Had l imagined" he exclaimed,
''that my unsatisfactory pleasures
| would have cost so dear, | would long
since have returned from Paris. l shall
return to my estate Immediately, that
my children may learn to relish its
tranquil pleasures
NJ. Valette no sooner returned to Par
is than he communicated his resolution
to his wife Madame Valette, having
accomplished the principal object of her
residence in Paris-the education of her
family -assented with pleasure to re-
they found themselves again in the
chateau of their ancestors.
About eight years after their return
from Paris, the family mansion de
manding repairs, they found it neces-
sary to remove for some time to Mar
seilles, where they resided in the house
of NJ. Danville, the father of Madame
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 and sudden
knocking was heard at the gate, but
when the servant went to open it he
found nobody without. After a short in
terval the same loud knocking was
again heard, and one of Nalette's sons
accompanied the servant to the gate to
see who demanded admittance at so
unreasonable an hour. To their aston
iShment no one was to be seen there.
A third time the knocking was repeated,
still louder and louder, and a sudden
thought darted across the mind of Va
lette.
Il will so to the gate myself" said
he. 81 believe l know who it is that
knocks"
His presentiment was too truly real
lied. AS he opened the gate LIE Brun
appeared and whispered to him that
the next night at the same hour-for it
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.
NJ. Valette returned, CHASTITY as the
phantom he had seen, to the family
circle, and upon their anxious and ur-
gent inquiries as to the cause of his un-
easiness related for the first time the
incident of the dream and the promised
warning he had just received A sud
den gloom and melancholy were spread
over the faces of all present. Madame
Valette threw her arms round the neck
of her husband and embraced him,
with tears. NJ. Danville. however. OBJ
stinately declared his incredulity and
considered the whole as one of those
unaccOuntable illusions to which even
the strongest minds are sometimes LA
BILE. He declared his son-in-law must
be the victim of some delusion, and IL
though he could not account for his
dream said that this last vision must
be mere imagination.
Nc sooner had NJ. yalette retired to