Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-09

l attempted to call out; but could manage only
husky whisper.
"Then heard voices speaking in low tone outside
the room, in very hushed, subdued tone. All! how
i'll must be, told myself that such extreme care was
exercised!
aBut the closed windows and drawn curtains had ex-
Guided air well light. felt hot, and raising my
hands suddenly they seemed to strike upon the ceiling
&c. them was still delirious? And yet could not be-
themselves with clear forcibeness What then? l
struggled to rise; | pushed my arms each side OF me-
And then understood-as you, Messeurs, have sur
missed: | was assuredly in my coffn
MO frightful panic seized me. l think that the
y shock of the discovery in way nunbed the mind,
just the grip of the teeth of lion will paralyze the
nerves fell back, stupefed. even pondered, in that
terrible moment, whether consciousness came again
after dissouton whether memory tenanted the brain
cells until they dust. l called to mind those
words, Who teleth tale of unspeaking death' Who
lifteth the veil of what is to comes!
"But, no. reflection urged the mpossibiity of that
conjecture since was certainly able to move since
was certainly able speak Beyond doubt was going
be buried alive! The hammerlng that had crashed
through my brain the sound of driven nails Unless
| could call attention, the wooden shell would be
placed in one of lead which would be placed in the
pulchral monument that held half the de Braves who
had gone before me.
appalling nightmare. And it is perhaps possible that
you do not believe at ALL Yes that may be SO. |
am not always sane l know. Yet this is the simple
truth. see you before see that Pickering lantern
which is fast going out; know who you francs
tireurs-is it not so? The German army corps are in
France, of course, have seen them Six batteries OF
ago Why shot two Rhinelanders with my own hands!
Only if you tell that they burned my chateau will
take the liberty of calling you liars.
"Where was [? All, ah! was dead and buried.
"Yes Messieurs, lay in that trap, in those wooden
walls until l felt that the beating of my heart would
split way out Darkness all at and it was
only when, hours later, found myself on bed that
told of piercing heard by people IN the
1t that had been taken out of the very
Jaws of DEATH
@Diablel its teeth had left mark upon me- as you OBJ
That, and other things, have played the mischief
with my and want no to tell me that have
lapses in the way of clear thinking, that my mental
AT length [ able to about and decided
leave the country, to break eernay from the thou
sand things that reminded me of Katrina, OF my lost
pearl of gem that had considered without flaw,
of purest water priceless which more lost to me
than are those jewels that the ocean covers.
THE night of the eve of my departure came In the
morning l to leave my chateau forever A
fghtu storm raging, and the darkness continually
rent by terrible violet glare went to my with
the purpose of destroying Escavado letter to my wife
II found it in the secret drawer of my desk where
had hidden it, and for the last time read it again
was cooler than when had first set eyes it. and the
fact that Escavado had surrendered Katrina readily
struck with forceul significance. You see my
friends, it not like the man. He was Spaniard
Brazilian, of most ardent nature; precisely the sort
haunt woman to give her interval of rest from
his beseechng; just the sort whose passion would be fed
by refusal until he became uncomfortable Yet in his
letter he not only passivey accepted Katrnas decision,
but as he said, he withdrew himself; for l had seen
nothing of him since three days before the date his
communication. True, my wife would, as he knew, say
ten thousand times his pleading; yet he the
man to answer Will youo ten thousand times and one.
But felt that he had not approached her after
writing What did it mean? Was his feverlsh spirit,
after ALL capable of holding to the high ideal that he
talked about? I could not believe it.
II was reading the note turning the matter and
in my mind, when felt, stealing upon my senses,
the same drowsiness that had before affected me. |
had the sensation of sinking through void, into
yielding dark. Was it the strange perfume e1anating