The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-28

ing the sleep of the just when l went
upstairs. and I hunted out my things
cautiously. The detective was waiting
in the hall, and l was %astonished to see
Or. Stewart with him. They were talk
ing confidentially together, but when L
came down they ceased. There were a
few preparations to be made; the locks
to be gone over, Winters to be in
structed as to renewed vigilance, and
then, after extinguishing the hall light,
we crept, in the darkness. through the
front door and into the night.
l asked no questions. l felt that they
were doing me honor in making me one
of the party, and l would show them /
| could be as silent as they. We went
across the fields. passing through the
woods that reached almost to the ruins
of the stable, going over stiles now and
then. and sometimes stepping over low
fences. Once only somebody spoke. mi
then it was an emphatic bit of profan-
ity from DIR. Stewart, when he ran into
a wire ence.
We were Joined at the end of five
minutes by another man, who fell into
step with the doctor silently. He car
ried something over his shoulder which
] could not make out. In this way we
walked for perhaps twenty minutes.
l had lost all sense of direction; 1
merely stumbled along in silence, al
lowing Mr.. Jameson to guide me this
way or hat as the path demanded.
| hardly know what | expected. Once,
when through a miscalculation 1
jumped a little short over a ditch and
10 nInl atnxFa - chnn-fnna In fhn
water n ooze, | remember wonder
ing if this were really 1, and II ! had
ever tasted life until that summer I
walked along with the water sloshing
in my boots, and | was actually cheer
full. | remember Whispering to, Mr..
Jameson hat l had seen the
stars so lovely, and that it was a mis-
take, when the Lord had made the
night so beautiful, to sleep through it!
The doctor was putting somewhat
when we finally came to a halt. | con-
fess that just at that minute even
~Sunnyside seemed a cheerful spot. We
had paused at the edge of a level
cleared space. bordered all around with
primly trimmed evergreen trees. Be
tween them I caught a glimpse of star
light shining down on rows of white
headstones and an occasional more inn
posing monument. or towering shaft.
In spite of myself / drew my breath
in sharply. We were on the edge OF the
Casanova churcilyard.
l saw now both the man who had
Joined the party and the implements
he carried. 1t was Alex, armed with
two long-handled spades. After the
first shock of surprise, / 1atter myself
l was both cool and quiet. We went
In single file between the rows of head
stones, and although. when I found
myself last. l had an instructive desire
to keep looking back over my shoulder,
l found that, the first ~uneaslness past,
a cemetery at night is much the same
as any other country place, filled with
vague shadows and unexpected noises.
Once. indeed-but Mr.. Jameson said it
was an owl, and / tried to believe him.
granite shaft we stopped. I think the
doctor wanted to send me back.
TITS nc place for a woman" | heard
him protesting angrily. But the de-
tcctive said something about witnesses,
and the doctor only came over and felt
my pulse.
Anyhow. 1 don't believe you're my
worse off here than you would be in
that nightmare of a house, he said
finally, and put his coat on the steps
of the shaft for me to sit on.
There is an air of 1pa1ity about a
grave; one watches the earth thrown in
with the feeling that this is the end
Whatever has o before. whatever
is to come In eternity. that particular
temple of the soul has been given back
to the elements from which 1t came
Thus, there Is a sense of DISSERTATION
of a reversal of the everlasting fitness
of things, in resurgecting a body from,
it's mother clay. And yet that night, In
the Casanova churchyard, ] sat quiet
ly by, and watched Alex and Mr.
Jameson steamlng ove their work
without a single qualm, except the feai
of detection.
The doctor kept a keen lookout, but
no one appeared. Once in a while III
came over to me, and gave me a re
assuring pat on the shoulder.
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