The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-13

tons on the EnE1Sn romance writers. ranks Mrs. Ann Radcliffe next to Shake speare; or the rhapsody of Leigh Hunt, who called her, the mighty magician of the the Mysteries of .Udo!pho. bred and their sacred. solitary caverns amid the paier shrines of Gothic superstition and eli the dreariness of enchantment." But the undispnted monarch of the Ensiish novels, especially In the .'Mysteries." !" mantle school Though she herself has become little more than q name she exercised decided influence on the TO- she representa- a "schoof which she may which her works are tl,e best exponents. were translated into many foreign learned world hailed her great.
 Radciifis's best known work. Sfss Mys- iSls country and ls as s diiistsnt YS % @ as posa M novel, such circulating libraries as have copies of 1t find 1t among their very best circulating books. It is a long story and so sss it's s f rss fiayor n m ad fun com prehension of it's beauties.
 .hrsasS Tansn ts. ssdssnl ss. of n rrsns nas htrD bert died In . little cottage near the Chateau le Blanc, meeting Elis end more f2r the thfS hs Co And . protector in the Cheyalier Val ancourt, young man who had accom- panied him on his travels and whom he Regarded as possessing every qualiiica- tion for son-in-law except, possibly,
 S; Au6rsy heard ! with an emotion that ?, ! castle near which fate had sent him to die and comma nded that his body be placed in the church of the neighboring convent. near the tombs of the Villerois. the former owners of the deserted cas-
 He sxaetsd promise from his to thsir modest home of La Valiee. i1 in Gascony, and destroy without reading 6 certain papers which were there hidden en Emily obeyed her fathers dying in junction; but as she was about to com : init the papers to the flames her eye fell amazement, and 1t was not without an effort that she restrained herself from reading further. She found also In the besntifni woman, over ia which she H had I once seen her father weep when he thought he was unobserved.
 were % Involved that she could expect hardly any fortune, and that she had been left as a ward to her aunt, Mime. made % her onu home 1na neaf rsu Touhouss. 0w ""0
 Emily was a girl Of slight and srace- full figure, with face of unusual ana snS esaa s sa father, who had encouraged her in all out of door exercise, and had instilled reliance which he fore-saw she might need sorely some day. .,
 yalancourt was the youngest brother handsome, military Joking youth, much attached to the beauties Of nature and of great nobleness of character, though ness common to sxuberant youth. lie Mime Cheron received him as kindly as course of true love seemed t6 De run ning smooth when the wealthy widow suddenly married Signor Montoni, Lord who had been visiting in the neighbor- ] hood of the Cheron pstate.
 At once everything was turned over her husband, and the. Signor promptly forbade Emily to see Valanc0urt again and conmanded her to prepare to ac- to Venice. Valancourt besought Emily to flee with him, but as both were toe young to be married legally without rnssS ss SSn'sa Ra ssad sSs parted with many tears and vows of
 At Venice Mime. Montoni discovered that her husband, whom she thought 2 wealthy powerful noble, was a man of broken fortunes, . gambler and con ed that his wife turn over to him her entire fortune. She refused, and he sci out with her and Emily for his castle ened by discovery on the part of the plots.
 ward to a certain Count Morano and commanded her to marry him. Emily naughty 'I Lord of Udoipho. But O the the Count and Montoni became enemies politically. and Emily was told she lions no more; thus it was with re- lief. despite certain dark forebodings, that she set out for Udolpho.
 The sun had sunk below the tops of the mountains when the travellers came in sight of their destination; but the yellow light still streamed In full splen- castle that spread It's extensive ram parts along the brow of a precipice above. Though now lighted up by the castle and it's nioidering walls of dark gray stone rendered it a gloomy and sublime object As they gazed the light huge eddiace WI wrapped in a purple dark ness. through which 1t loomed huge and growning.
 
 The two old servants who formed the only garrison of the castle built a fire in one of the gloomy rooms, and over it Emily and her aunt sat in the deepest dejection while Montoni strode upiDa nc down with folded arms and frowning brow. At last he summoned Annette the maid who had come with Mime. Mon. toni from France, and ordered her tC show Emily the chamber prepared fol her. As the girl left the room her aunt said Good night. my dear" in tone oi kindness which Emily had never before heard her use.
 Annette conducted Emily to heI chamber rattling on with a story oi ghosts and other horrors of which shG had heard from the servants and whict were we'll suited to the grim and dilap adated castle. Finally she became de- wildered in the many passages and con 6essed herself lost.
 'Lst us open this door" said Emily S.and see where 1t leads" The room in- to which she netered was hung with portraits. Noticing one frame ovel which hung a black curtain, Annette exclaimed: Holy Virgin! That must be the picture of which heard fin Ve' nicew
 '-1vhat pictureY' asked Emily. But Annette would not, or could not tell and her mistress, advancing to the veil lifted up one corner of 1t. The horroi of what she saw there caused her t' etagger back against the wall fainting hut recovering herself. she quickly lef the apartment, and after some dlff1cuu " finally reached her own room almost in a state of collapse.
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