The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-11-15
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slowly up Broadway, New York. Pass
ing old Trinity church the chimes in
the tower above rang out, followed by
the stroke of ,.
Hello. cried voice.
The cabman, ever mindful of a fare,
roased himself and, turning, saw a
man standing in the iron gateway be-
fore the church. There was little of his
face or figure visible, for the former
was shaded by the brim of a singular
three. cornered hat, the latter wrapped
III long cloak. The cabman drew up
TIE curb. The stranger opened the
- door and stepped hastily in, giving
hurried order to drive northward
along the river bank. On reaching
u point opposite Weehawken the
stranger calle.l upon the cabman to
stop. alighted and walked toward the
river.
1t was now early dawn. On com
ing to the waters edge he looked
about him as though expecting some
one. then up and down the river,
glancing impatiently at his watch.
The cabman continued to eye him
wonderingly. though lie was tired and
sleepy. Was it drowsiness that made
the queer figure seem to flutter in the
wind? a boat touched the shore pulled
by two men in the same garb as the
stranger. lie stepped in and was
rowed away straight across the river.
Then it seemed to the cabman that he
had. lost consciousness for a second and
the men pulling away in boat had
been a dream. He looked about for
the stranger, but he had indeed (lisap-
pearcd.
Suddenly the stiffness was broken by
a distant crack, or. rather, it was two
cracks SO near together as to be scarce
~ distinguished. just then the leaves
Of the trees We're stirred by a light
breeze, and it seemed to the cabman
that something uncanny was in the
wind. Indeed. though it was warm
July morning, he shivered as if he had
been struck by cold draft from a
tomb
The next thing the cabman knew
the two men who had taken the stran-
ger away We're pulling rapidly down
the river. The stranger himself was
nowhere to be seen, but the men seem
ell to be regarding anXiously something
in the bottom of the boat invisible from
the shore. The cabman, bent on hold
ing to those mysteriouslyi linked with
the man who owed him a fare whipped
1,se H,I1. IL.
along the shore. 1t wasaa hard chase,
but he managed to keep them in sight,
and finally they turned toward the
shore. When they landed. cabby was
there to meet them The stranger was
stretched i'll the bottom of the boat.
him ashore and placed him inside the
cab. The cabman. all in fiutter,
mounted the box and was about to
drive away when he remembered that
in his excitement lie had not asked
for Instructions. Looking back to do
so, not Il glost Of Il man who had been
there was to be seen. AS soon as he
could sufficiently recover from his as
constituent he bent over to ask the
question of the man inside The face
was ashen and had taken on CHASTITY
glare.
Drive moanel the sufferer.
"Where?"
ITO the churchyarl."
The cabman dashed his horse, his cab
swaying from curb TO curb, its driver
swaying as well on tile box, the people
rushing to get out of the way. Now
and again Il policeman dashed into the
| street to stop him, but he was driving
| too fast for them and left them all be-
| hind.
| Faster" called the passenger in a
| dying voice. I'll be caught in the
| maelstrom.'
The cab at last drew up at the gate
way of old Trinity. The cabman was
| about to get down and help the man
out when he saw him fit rather than
walk or run in through the gateway,
pass right through an iron fence and
into the churchyard. Down jumped
the cabmal and dashed after him, call
| ing for his fare. Passing around an
1 end of the fence, making his way
| through the headstones, he managed to
keep the man, or. rather, ghost for by
dis time it reseinb!ed dissolving buff
cioud-in sight
There is Il monument OH the southern
side of the clurchyard partaking nei
4 Their of the style of the seventeenth nor
OF the nineteenth century, but a pc
Rod betwiXt the two. To this monu-
ment the fading object tloated aud
1 thithar the cabman staggered. But on
reaching it not sign of a living being
was to be seen. Dazed, he tried to
steady himself against the tomb, but
| the grayestones, the high buildings
/ surrounding the churchyard, the spire,
1 all began TO rock as if they We're tow
ers on some gigantic vessel. and-well,
/ that's all the cabman knew. Indeed,
! he sank down on the grave with his
head resting against the monument.
4 There he was seen by a policeman
standing on the narrow street border
| ,,nr th, cl,I1rnl,uap1