The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-12-27
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BY EDITH AUSTIN

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(Copyright. by Joseph b. BowlesJ
was youth of II when my grand.
father died. hence my recollections OF
him are quite distinct and mature.
was orphaned in my infancy and
from my earliest recollection my
grandfather had made me his con-
stant companion. He was an timer
ant preacher Of western England-his
circuit calling him from walled Ches-
ter on the west to the novels OF the
charcoal burners in mid-England;
and during the years of his itinerancy
| followed him in the pursuance OF
his duties through sun and rain and
winter gale
repeat this in order to explain
lust how | regarded my grandfather
in the light of a certain hereditament
he left to me, his diary, but which
he expressly forbade me opening
until had passed my twenty-ffth
birthday.
There we're many things witnessed
and heard i'm my boyhood for which
could find no explanation until !
broke tho seal of this book wherein
the magnitude Of my grandfathers
very SOU stands revealed. The first
entry in the diary is as follows:
NV beloved grandson, in this
diary are recorded events writ down
for thy especial edifcation. without
comment leave it with thee to judge
whether | have been the victim OF a
terrible mind disorder, or whether
am gifted with perceptions beyond
the usual ken of man.
IL was in the first years OF my
study of the occult, long before thou
hadst come to gladden. thy grand
sire's heart, that ! was journeying TO
Blore Health. When night came down
fate led me to the door of a desolate
inn slowly dropping to ruin In the
perpetual shadow of a grove OF oak.
The aged host greeted me most
cordially. for at his inn guests were
not frequent and therefore the more
welcome. In the parlor back OF the
denuded bar | found his old wife and
his daughter. the only other persons
about the place. moving silently here
and there preparing the evening meal.
The daughter was young and tall and
straight and strong and her hands
were coarsened with outdoor work
for, II appeared, she was now the
| burden bearer of the family.
After the supper was cleared away
the aged parents entertained me with
"reminiscences of a past glory. OF
when the inn was new and the great
| tide of travel used to pass its door
Then in saddened tones they told OF
how the opening of new thorough
] fare had diverted custom to other hos
teiries. So when the daughter was
they closed the inn, perforce. and
went and made their home with her.
But one ill.fated day the newly
welded husband rode away to a
neighboring market town and never
returned. go 80
After due time the farm and tene
ments passed into the possession OF
the next heirat.law, a cousin OF the
husband: and the old couple with
their dowerless daughter returned to
the deserted inn. now racked and
wrecked with storm and long neglect
Thou canst see the gables OF the
farm over yon above the trees" said
the mother. and we might be living
there now mid comfort and plenty Il
Lisbeth would only hearken to us and
wed with Carver Hallard, the cousin
who succeeded to the estate. He Is
right honorable yeoman. and hath
favored Lisbeth since they were chill
dren In pinafores. But Lisbeth hatf
base distrust of him, and treats hin
coldly when he would come to WOO
and he that willing to do for her OWL
parents,
Then Lisbeth. lifting her sorrow
laden eyes to portrait of her hus
band on the wall said: Mother
thou need'st not grieve for the ricl
living at the farm beyond Whitsun
tide. That day | promise to give m!
hand to Carver Hallard an he still de
sires IT,"
81 would not coerce thee daughter
against thy own good" quavered th'
mother In almost childish glee.
Then a gloomy silence fell like
funeral pail over MS, and we sat abou
the fire absorbed In our own Thoughts
until there came the sound Of a quicl
step up the pathway and an i'm
perative knock at the door, and Gar
yer Hallard entered. He was a dark
hard-featured, harsh-spoken maj
whom any tender young woman Nigh
well have summed
could not understand 1t then bu
intuitfVely felt that he was a maj
with a guilty conscience. And In tn
light of the recent narration, | fel
to comparing his features with thos
of the picture hanging above his head
As my gaze wandered from one l.
the other there came TO me a sense @
presence in the room, conviction
could neither define nor evade; an
while ! strove to analyze critical
this impression strange metamol
phosis seemed to come over my sense
and ! felt myself drifting, as II were
into a state Of double consciousness
Still with that sense OF divide
ego, with the voices about me echoin