New-York tribune., 1896-08-30

whence the nreplaces had been removed, ana
the cobwebbed OF shiveTed easements compInea !,
to produce n scene OF desolatlon WHICH rea0"eu
its culmnation In the chapel.
Horo the collapse of the roof had left few
SCARED and jagged rafters projecting from the
walls In perlous and threatening posilons'
while the tiles and beams had in their fall shh' :
tered the tagging Of the floor below and Uttered
II with debris \ wreck OF mulllons ana tracery
still remained in the east window, ana Santai
saw waving in the wind outside the same SPITE
~ ivy that he had noticed in his dream. There
was no trace of seats or any other nttlngs pu'
at the east end the rising steps marked the posi-
tion which the altar had once occupied. ne .t- -
amired the place carefully In the expectation
of finding his ring and the money that ne nau
lost but his search was entirely unsuccess,ul; It,;
Resides tho ruins Of Bejant Place. santal Wis
ited with much interest the parish cnurch AT
Winterbourne which lay facing the inn AT the
opposite side Of the village green. on the south
side Of the church was chantry pulll py so'iie
of the old lords OF the manor. and known as the
Reliant Aisle II was separated from the rest
of the church by oak screenwork. ana IN IL
were many monuments of the FAMILY Afnons
these memorials was raised altar-ton oi eiap,
crate workmanship. on which lay a full-ien2th
alabaster figure of a man clothed in the tantas-
tic plate-armor prevalent at the close OF tne sN
teenth century. Round the edge OF tne tol,lo
ran an inscription in brass showing that 'he
figure represented one Roger BeJant' VINO WAS
Inferred June n lJSO.
The name. and still more the day OF his burial.
arrested Santal's attention. but his surprise was
Increased huniredfod by the discovery or
nlain tablet OF brass let into the wall nara ny.
which recorded the death. in the same year on
"Cccelia onely child to Roger Bejant, Esq aged
Is" with rhymlng inscription:
"Stav passenger and sOlace with tear
Th' unhappy child that here lies buried near,
Who when shee saw that cruel fate laid low
The onolv succor she earth did knoWe,
Droop'f down and in the tOmbe with MN was iHiu
A faultcsse daughter and a spotlesse maid.
The coincidence of these names with tnose
which his dreaming imagination had conJured
up was so startling to lead him FOR mo-
ment to doubt his reason, and to CONSIDER
whether he had not on that night IN the olu
manor-hous been permitted to see rehearscd
bv ghostlv actors scene which had actually
occurred more than two centuries before. He
dismissed the idea absurd almost before IL
was formed and was constrained eventually
to believe that he must in some archaeological
work have once read a description OF these monu-
ments The knowledge that the inn at which
he hoped to pass the night vas called the BeJant
Arms had very possibly revived his dormant
TO attach the names OF persons who had once
existed TO the phantoms of his dream II was
n lame ard unsatisfactory explanation but ne
could conceive bett ~, and TN )ugh ne taxed
his memory to the utmost to recall the fact or
his having ever read anything Of the kind. II
was without success Neither could he deter
mine at what preciss point his dream had be-
gun but IL seemed probable that he had never
nroperly recovered consciousness after being
knocked down by his horse. and had entered the
house and wandered from room to room IN a
half-stunned condition.