The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-12-13

:, fe,t not only that I could not
I, rs, sleep. but that | could not even
y ~ owes. | was wide awake and
h,gb fever. Every nerve in my
y ], ..embled; every one Of my senses
"a 70 be preternaturally sharp
Z tossed and rolled and tried ev-
s,nd of position and perseveringly
!.sht out the cold corners OF the bed,
J ali to no purpose. Now | thrust
ms over the clothes; now poked
= under the clothes; now violently
!, nv legs straight out down to the
s,m of the bed; now | convulsively
ND them up as near my chin as they
s ND 90; now I shook out my crum-
u inflow, changed it to the cool side,
L+ed It fat and lay down quietly on
hack. now | fiercely doubled 1T In
! set it up on end, thrust 1t against
Eboard of the bed and tried a sitting
kure Every effort was in vain.
sned with vexation as l felt that
!, in for a sleepless night.
What could do? I had no book to
N and yet, unless found out some
L,bod of diverting my mind, l felt
Lain that was in the condition to
[,gine all sorts of horrors, to rack
1 brain with forebodings of every
Esible and impossible danger; In
(d to pass the night In suffering all
kriyable varieties of nervous terror.
LAraised myself on my elbow ana
I'D about the room-which was
{htened by lovely moonlight pour
straight through the window-to
IN it contained any pictures or orna-
uts that | could at all clearly dis
Suish. While my eyes wandered
km wall to wall a remembrance OF
Maistres delightful little book,
koyage Autour de Ma Chambre," &C.
bred to me. resolved to initiate the
bench author and find occupation and
kusement enough to relieve the te-
lam of my wakefulness by making a
|sntal inventory of every article OF
|niture could see and by following
to their sources the multitude Of as
Sdations which even q chair, a table
IA wash hand stand may be made to
forth.
. IN the nervous, unsettled state of my
md at that moment found it much
ker to make my inventory than TO
hike my reflections and thereupon soon
I've I'D all hope of thinking in LIE
Gre's fanciful track, or, indeed, OF
hiking at all. l looked about the
km at the different articles of frrni'
he and did notl ing more.
There was, first, the bed l was lying
"a four post bed-of all things in thu
@ld to meet with in Parishes,
thorough, clumsy, British four poster
kth a regular top lined with chlnt2
Be regular fringed valance all rounc
be regular sitting, unwholesome cui
kins, which | remembered having me
kanically drawn back against the post
ithout particularly noticing the be
hen l first got into the room. the
ge was the marble topped was
Ind stand, from which the water
4 spilled in my hurry to pour 1t OF
still dripping slowly and MOI
Gly on to the brick floor. Then wv
Ill chairs, with my coat, walstco'
trousers flung on them. Then
he elbow chair covered with DIRT
lille dimity, with my cravat and sill
hr thrown over the back. Then
lest of drawers with two OF the bra'
indies off and tawdry, broken CHR
htand placed on it by way OF orn
ent for the top. Then the dresslI
bile, adorned by very small iookll
Ass and very large pincushio
ben the window-an unusually lari
hdow. Then a dark old plctu
hch the feeble candle dimly SHOVE
e 1t was the picture of a fellow
high Spanish hat, crowned Win
lume of towering feathers-a swartn
mister ruffian, shading his eyes wi
hand and looking intently upwai
Srht be, at some tall gallows
LII he was going to be hanged.
" rate, he had the appearance
AGOughly deserving it.
This picture put a kind of constra
BON me to look upward, too-at the
the bed. 1t was gloomy and not
ahresting object, and looked back
ne picture. I counted the feathers
Ae mans hat. They stood out IN
kf-three white, two green.
kyed the crown of his hat, which '
a conical shape, according TO
ahion supposed to have been faVo
Guido Fawkes. l wondered w
was looking up at. 1t couldn't
the stars. Such a desperate
ether astrologer nor astronomer.
rust be at the high gallows, and
as going to be hanged presen
would the executioner come into
*sslon of his conical crowned hat
"alne of feathers? l counted the Ie
~ again-three white, two green.
While still fingered over this
~proying and intellectual employn
" thoughts insensibly began to '
W.T. The moonlight shining into
wm reminded me Of a certain m
asnt night in England-the night 9
picnic party in a Welsh valley.
s incident Of the drive homeW
trough lovely scenery, which
uoonlight made lovelier than
4 sme back to my remembrance, thu
, nad never given the picnic a tho
| W years; though, if l had trie