The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1901-01-22
ESTABLISHED 1879.

! the window, and when he reached The
window there wasn't anything there,
| though the window was shut except for a
little space at the top.
well, Jack went to bed and lay think
| ing it over for an hour, then fell asleep
again. He was perfectly healthy, Jack
was and hadn't much idea of the super
natural
s'But now comes the strange part Of It,
for as he was dressing the next morning
what did the boy find but a pool Of salt
water on the stone hearth in that little
hollow you can see from here that has
been worn in it and lying in 1t a bit of
fresh seaweed in which was tangled a
long black hair. Then, as Jack told me,
his own hair began to rise in good ear
nest and he was scared
80 that morning after breakfast he
takes the bit of seaweed to his uncle
and asks him if he'd ever seen any
like it.
1.-THE professor looked at the piece of
wet weed, and his color went like the 60
ing out Of lighted taper. It's an un-
common variety he said, as it's never
found except on the bodies Of drowned
people. Where did you get it, Jaek7
And he looked at the boy wildlike, for l
was a-watching of 'em from the passage
way.
81 found it in my room,' blurted out
the boy. There was couple Of people in
there last night, uncle, dripping wet
What do you meanT gasped his IN
Gle, looking at him strangely.
"'Come and I'll show YOU he says. in
spite of the fact that l was shaking my
fist at him from the hallway. So together
10 fha oo1 ~
lowing to explain why I'd taken the liber-
ty to lodge Jack there. But the professor
never noticed me. He followed Jack into
the room, white to the lips, and kneeling
down examined the little pool of water on
the hearth. It's sea water he whisper
ed, after a moment. What did you see.
boy2 Tell me everything
There's nothing much to tell, uncle
went on Jack, in his straightforward
way. The girls hair was down her back
all wet, and full Of seaweed And seeI
Here's long black hair in the seaweed
found
The professor looked, then gave cry
such as / hope never to hear again and
fell back on the floor unconscious. He
came back to life, but never was well
after, and he died six weeks afteiward
Before he went he became communion
tive, and the secret of his wife's death
came out. He and his wife were in a
small boat. the last two to leave the sink
ing vessel, together with few other pas.
sengers and one sailor. The professor,
being a man Of authority and a well
known seaman, was in charge of the
boat. Just as they were pushing of they
saw a figure clinging to the mast just
above the water. 1t was Mrs. Linwood's
cousin and former lover. At this she cried
to her husband to put back to the ship
and rescue him and took on so at his dam
ger that the demon of jealousy entered
her husbands soul. and he swore it would
be impossible to go back and that to take
another person into the boat would sink
it. At that moment the mast disappear
ed, and as it did so the young man
sprang into the sea waving a farewell to
his cousin. Then. with one look at the
professor that he never forgot to his dy-
ing day, Mrs. Linwood jumped overload
and probably sank immediately-at least
the body could not be recovered.
Eyes. it was strange thing, those two
coming baek-if 1t was they-to this
room. Those who have book learning can
make it clear, perhaps. but I'm only an
ignorant old woman and don't under
stand these deep things can only tell
it to you just as ii happened. Chicago
Times-Herald