Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1896-05-15
THE DJCEPHALUS.

buttuncd clOso up to his throat and the
peak of lis ollSain cap pulled far down
over his weather beaten lace and passed
cut into the night.
As lac up,n,d the door gust of wind
swept the knob rom his rrusl dashed tn,
tranewurk aAaineU tho wall OF the cham.
Der and eAtin -Ui>hcd the E.cbcIIng oil
laIup tl.Ht indGa a.lft - ioACor IsIblu the
darkness of the room.
Cln1uneu I~HXton hastily tu,tuuru tn.
door after the ro;rcuting figure, rcllghtcd
the lalEp and sal down cn the sea chest,
which served as Il chair and bed. A
strange ll1t' T. Nh~, his bcaChcumber :
cabin. 1uuurrs IRON every ship that had
come ashore on Coffin beach these 90 years
Were WoN,H 4Atu its heterogeneous frame.
work Here part of ii steamships deck
house, there stanchiUn from the sturdy
hull Of some long forgotten merchantmen,
yonder tie patched walnsColing OF IA clip
per ships once gorgeous uSAin-cheek by
jowl These relics OF departed pride stood
like monuments of the dead past III some
strange nautical cemetery.
Outside tho gale ragged with Increasing
fury. Low though it Sat between the sand
dunes the solid walls of the howell tremblcd
like IA ship III IA heavy sea. Such spring
storm had not been seen on the coast for
years-not since the night las veteran
told afterward) when the clipper ship Bu-
cephalus came ashore way back in the
tifties. In the angle over there the prov of
this vessel formed a sort of cornerstone ful
the strange structure, and the horse III the
hgurehead stared at Baxton with the
sightless eyes of an emblem of death.
He would have been puzzled to explain
why he felt 50 strangely, left alone III this
COY cabin. BaXtun was not IA supersti-
tiuUs man, nor one given to sentimental
Nagarlee or emotional weaknesses, and
yet, as the door swung to after the officer
he felt for II moment strange and unac-
countable thrill, a chilling of the blood,
Il consciousness OF something outside of
his sphere vi influence, superior to his
power OF control, that was gradually but
surely working its Will around and about
nm. The telling was not one of fear.
What indeed was he to be afraid of sure
ly not of the storm, Tor he was cOzily
housed. Not of thieves VI marauders for
he ana the coast guardsnen were the only
human beings on that strip Of beach OF
what then was he fearful; 1t was all
huhsenso, Ac aaIu-he was Lot afraid at
all
BaXton shlNelrd ~ he thrcv another
piec, OF drtlWuOu on the fire and drew
closer t. til, eIrrn blue blaze of the copper
stained timber that cast fantastic, many
hued shadows Oh the rough walls. mo
going back 10 the mainland tonight he
thought as the picture of the storm dashed
bay Iusu before his mind, and he silently
obJui gated the secretary OF the treasury
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