The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-11
The Mystery Of
Edwin brood
.=By
Charles Dickens
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back way. Durdiss answers; 'and Wen drop
50 they go on; Deputy as a rear rank one;
t tax open n, order and nadng the SenGe o.
pillar and other inanimate object by the de-
rs there anything new down in the crypt.
Durdles?" asks John Jasper.
Anything old. / think you mean, GROWS
Durdles. 1T amt spot for novelty. .
ANY new discovery on your part meant
There's an old un under the seventh pillar
on the left you go down the broken steps OF
the little underground chapel as formerly was.
make him out $50 fur as I've made him ro oE'
To judge from the size of the passages In the
walls. and of the steps and doors. by which which
been a good deal in the way OF the old uns.
Two of 'em meeting promiscuous must nave
should say
Without any endeavor TO correct the literally
covered from head to foot with old mortar.
lime and stone grt-as though he, Jasper, were
Yours is a curious existence"
Without any endeavor to correct the hteraIly
question whether he receives this as compn-
ment or quite the reverse. Durdles grufiiy an
Well inasmuch as my lot is cast in the
same old earthly. chilly, never-changing place,
est in your connection with the Cathedral than
in mine. Indeed 1 am beginning to have some
student, or free prentice. under you. and to let
me go about with you sometimes. and see some
The Stony One replies; in genera! way,
Durdles when he's wanted Which, II not
strictly true is approximately So If taken n 20
state OF vagabondage somewhere.
What 1 dwell upon most" says Jasper. pur-
RENAL accuracy With which you would
seem 10 find out where people are buried
way; let me hold it"
Durdes has stopped and backed little dep
oil hfcr,
skirInishing into the road, and was looking
about for some ledge or corner to place his bun
"Just you give my hammer out or that,
says Durdles, and III show you ~.
Now, lookee here. You pitch your note
don't you, Mr.. Jasper"
so sound for mine. take my hammer;
and l tap" (Here he strikes the pavement and
wider range. supposing that his head may be
On tsppnF Solid s TAP fap tap ag Hoo
hollow! Tap again. perseverins. Solid in
h0 hollow Tan and tnp taP poS TO- 5 Vt ssa
you are! Old un crumbed away in stone CONN.,
''Astonishngr'
81 have even done this" says Durdles. draw
ing out his two-foot rule deputy meanwhile
may be about TO be discovered, which may
eeogs treat Of hs e being hanged
by the neck. on his evidence until they are
@ GTaG Work Two hf four and two 20 is hs
ing on the pavement six foot inside that
wan aNo It really Msi ' MRS. sapseaY"
Say Mrs sapsea Her wallis thicker but
sy MT bS SS ras say aer good
sounding; Something betwixt us! sure enough,
foe space paO9if BY h purd Ies menu ~ 0
Jasper opines that such accuracy lis a gift
wouidn nave IL at GIT III oeerraf;o in
dies comes by his knowledge through grub
/
roots when it don't want to come-Holloa you'
''Widdy!" is Deputy's shrin response stand
Catch that ha'penny. And don't let see
any of you tonight, after we come TO
the .,, Travellers Twopenny." ,o,.n our,.
the half-penny and appearing by his mystic
word to express his assent 10 the arrangement
vineyard belonging to what was once the Mon
astery. to come into the narrow black lane
low stories currently known the Travellers
Two-p enny-a house all warped and distorted
mains of a lattice-work porch over the door, and
also of rustic fence before its stamped-out gar
den; by reason of the travellers being so bound
to the premises by a tender sentiment COR fond
of having fire by the roadside in the course
of the day). that they can never be persuaded
or threatened into departure without violently
possessing 5henseUsS OF some wooden forget
The semblanee of an inn is attempted to be
given to this wretched place by fragments of
Conventional red curtaining in the windows.
which rags are made muddy transparent in the
night-season by feeble lights OF rush or cotton
dip burning DULY in the close air Of the in
side As Durdles and Jasper come near, they
addressed by an inscribed paper lantern
over the door, setting forth the purport of the
| house. They also addressed by some half
| dozen other hideous small boys-whether two
| penny dodgers followers or hangers-on OF
| such who knowsl-who as if attracted by some
carrion-scent of Deputy in the air. start into
| the moonlight as vutures might gather in the
desert. and instantly fall 10 stoning him and
one another.
griiy. and let go byE'
This remonstrance being received with yells
and flying stones according to a custom of late
years comfortably established among the police
regulations Of our English communities, where
Christians are stoned on all sides, as II the
days Of Saint stephen were revived, Durdes
remarks of the young savages, with some point,
that they haven't got object and leads
| the way down the lane.
At the corner of the lane, Jasper, holly en-
ragged. checks his companion and looks back.
All is silent. Next moment stone coming
''Wake-cocki Warningi' followed by a crow
as from some Internally Matched Chandelier
apprising him under whose victorious fire he
stands, he turns the corner into SAFETY, and
takes Durdles home: Durdles stumbling among
the litter of his stony yard if he were going
to turn head foremost into one of the unfinished
tombs
John Jasper returns by another way to
his gatehouse and entering softly with his key,
finds his fire still burning. He takes from
locket press a peculiar looking pipe, which he
hls-but not with tobacco-and, having adjusted
the contents of the bowl very carefully, with
a little instrument. ascends an inner staircase
of only few steps, leading to two rooms One
Of these is his own sleeping chamber; the other
is his nephews. There is light in each.
His nephew lies asleep, calm and untroubled.
John Jasper stands looking down upon him,
his unlighted pipe in his hand for some time,
ing his footsteps, he passes to his own room,
lights his pipe and delivers himself to the
spectres II invokes at midnight