The Prescott daily news., 1907-08-02

A look of intense horror awoke in the girls eyes when she saw the face that was bending over her A band. age which the woman had supplied was now tied about the helpless girls lips. This placed her completely at the mercy of the woman, who now proceeded with the diabolical work which the ingenuity of her jealous rage had planned. Sitting at her back she spread apart the arms and forced the bound wrists down over the girls knees and to her ankles, where they were made fast to the ankle thongs. Then she passed strap about the neck and under the lower limbs and thus drew her victims chin down to her knees. Then she went to the old clock and in some mysterious manner removed the front panel in the lower cabinet, exposing to view a hollow space inside. And it was now that the full horror of her pur- pose fell upon me, for the victim was lifted bodily from the bed by the wo- man and was forced into the empty cabinet of the clock in her cramped posture. Then the panel was deliber- ately replaced.
 The awful horror of the scene aroused the stoutest indignation of my soul, and 1 strove with the strength of madness to burst asunder the bonds which seemed to restrain me, in order that l might go to the rescue of that fatally beautiful girl And the effort did burst the bonds of my singular trance. for l awoke as from a dream although the chime of the old clock in the corner of my room still vibrated from the last stroke of twelve, and l was rationally sure that those twelve strokes indeed had fallen.
 The next day I found among some miniatures of my family one that re. sembled the man l had seen in my vision; and with it I went to my aunt
 Tt is the miniature of your great grandfather, she told me
 What is his history" I asked
 He was lost at sea about 60 years ago. He had married a second wife with whom he was not congenial. This wife objected to his guardian ship of the orphaned daughter of friend, who was said to have been wonderfully beautiful And. too, this second wife was objectionable to all the children of his first marriage. She had been a serving woman of low degree and had nursed him through a long illness. And through his gratitude for this service he had married her. It was some time after this marriage that the orphaned giyl came into his charge But from the day of her introduction it appears a spirit of jealousy had been aroused in the wife's bosom. It is said my grand father acquired interests in South America in order that he might spend much of his time abroad The vessel on which he last sailed for that coun- try never reached it's destination: and months afterwards it was found by some of the children who took charge of the old place that the big famiy clock had stopped just at twelve, though less than half run down; and it was superstitiously believed that the clock had stopped at the hour of my grandfather's death"
 And what became of the girl?"
 Tt is said she disappeared. There was none to be particularly interested in her, and none ever knew what be came of her. unless it was the wife. who died some years later in mad house.
 l returned home with peculiar sen. sations, for l could not understand through what subtle influence those partially corroborated visions had come to my mind Securing a chisel and hammer. l ruthlessly tore away the front panel of the old clock cabi- net; and there amid a great wealth of brown hair, was a crouching form of yelloWed homes.