The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-16
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 FANNIE BRIGHAM WARD.
THE DEATH OF LORD LYTTLEToN

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 Lord Lyttleon, in the winter of the year ITS, had retired from the metrop- olis, with a party of his dissipated com panions, to profane the Christmas at his country house, Pit Place, near Ep- som, in Surrey. They had not long abandoned themselves to the indul- gence of their desperate orgies, when sudden and unexpected gloom was cast over the party by the extraordinary de- pression of spirits and dejection of countenance which were observed to have taken hold of their host. It was in vain that he attempted to silence in- quiries of the guests on the subject of his dejection. They were convinced that he was i'll, or had met with loss at play, or was crossed in love; and his denial of all these imputatons only excited a more eager curiosity to be informed of the origin of his depression Thus urged, he at last determined to reveal the secret that so painfully distressed him.
 The night before, on his retiring to bed, after his servant was dismissed and his light extinguished, he had heard a noise resembling the fiuttering of a dove at his chamber window. This attracted his attention to the spot; when, looking in the direction of the sound, he saw the figure of an unhappy female, whom he had seduced and de- serted, and who, when deserted, had put a violent end to her own existence; she was standing in the aperture of the window from which the fluttering sound had proceeded. The form ap- preached the foot of the bed-the room was supernaturally light, the objects of the chamber were distinctly visible. Raising her hand and pointing to dial which stood on the mantlepiece of the chimney, the figure, with a severe solemnity of voice and manner, an- nounced to the appalled, and con- science-stricken man that at that very hour on the third day after the visita- tion his life and his sins would be con- cluded, and nothing but their punish ment remain, if he availed himself not of the warning to repentance which he had received. The eye of his lordship glanced on the dial the hand was on the stroke of twelve. Again the apart ment was involved in total darkness, the warning spirit disappeared, and
 
 ness of heart and buoyancy of spirit | which had formerly distinguished the unhappy being to whom the tremen- | dous summons had been delivered. On the succeeding day his lordship's guests, with the connivance of his at | tendants, had provided that the clocks | throughout the house should be ad vanced an hour, without the imposture | being discovered. Ten o'clock struck | the nobleman was silent and depressed; | eleven struck-the depression deepened and now not even a smile indicated him | to be conscious of the efforts of his as- sociates, as they attempted to dispel his gloom. Twelve struck. He return | ed to his chamber, convinced of his se- | curity, and believing that the hour of | peril was now past.
 | Lord Lyttleton's guests remained to- | gether to await the completion of the l time so ominously designated by the vision. A quarter of an hour had
 elapsed-they heard the valet descend from his masters room; it was just