The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1900-01-12

"stiil the idea Of the two dead men.
with their pale faces aud Enclosed eyes.
would come before me again and again.
and could have groaned but for dread
Of some similar response that might
make my heart wither up and my
fesh creep. And creep It soon did;
for, just as this horrid idea Of an over
strained fancy. fostered by magma
ton and fashioned out OF the silence
and darkness became strongest within
me. what were my emotions-how
painful the throbblns Of my heart-on
beholdlng strange, green. CHASTITY
Hight glimmerlng about. and playing
within each Of the side herths
while shrinking into a corner OF
the cabin. with eyoballs stralning,
eazed at them alternately with spe-
cics OF horrid fascination. Tho two
lights were weird, wavorlng and pale;
they seemed to me as two warnings
from the land OF splrits. for they play
ed upon the curtain and In the recess
OF each berth. port and starhoard In
| which dead man had been found.
And while these lights shone. there
came upon my ear the palpable sound
OF heavy breathing and snorting, as
from the oppressed chest OF some one,
close by me-
Il placed my hands upon my eyes
and on my ears to shut out these hor-
rid lights and sounds: but when l
looked again the former had disoap-
peared, and all was opaque darkness.
ION putting forth my hand to rise. a
cry OF uncomfortable terror escaped
mc-a yell that rang In wild echoes
through the silent polacca-when my
fingers came In contact with something
icy, and then a cold. clammy, and wet
head OF halri
"Thon two gllstenlng eyes seemed to
peer and 10 glare into mlnel
ON horror and bowildormont. and
followed by something. knew not
what. | aprang up the companion. and
! half faintlng. reached the deck OF the
2 polacca. Then | turned to md that
the object which had excited 30 much
Z dlsmay waa no other than my poor dos
D Hector. which had swan OF 10 the bril
7 In pursuit Of me.
"rhe eyes that In the dark seemed e
a glare into mine. were his: the icy OBJ
ioct, from which my fingers shrank
= was his honest black nose; and wha
II seemed wet head OF hair. was hi
J. own curly front; while the lighta--th'
n mysterious lambert llghts-that ha'
o nicekored about the dead mons berthi
e1 proved TO be nothing moro than IN
II green beacon on the promontory o
u Santa Cruz. which shono at time
Ie through the two stern windows OF th
T. polacca.
10 Being moored with the chain cabl
&c ahead and MANILA warp from he
/ port quarter TO buoy aatern, Oh
swung to and fro a little with N
p obb and now OF the tide. hence N
TO oscillation which caused the movin
III CLEANS that terrified me.
', "'Hal hat said /, on descending Il
I'd TO tho cabin, wiser and mo
IN sleepy man. scared by my own d
Hectorl have been as great ~
gh as ever touched salt water
iat "A fortnight afterwards shpp
em With old lack Hinlop an second ma
an aua tha ntteenth aar saw un ranu
W before n smart topgalinnt Dreczo
pm the Gulf OF Florida. bound with
nu' 20 OF rum. sugar and molansos for
pm. Clyde.
eth 80 that Ia ny ghost yarn. Il c
,oi veys a moral does II notY
Die der them 10 strike the bell forwa
TO Hlslop, call the witch; sec how
head bears, aud lot us turn in."