Williams news., 1915-05-06

ground to raise them slowly but with | deep meaning. to something which | rose from the brow of the hill in stark | and curious outline not explainable in itself, but clear enough to one who | had seen it's shape by daylight. Judge Ostrander had thus seen it many times in the past, and knew just where to look for the one remaining chimney and solitary gable of house struck many years before by lightning and left grinning shell to mock the eye of all who walked this path or crossed | this bridge.
 Black amid blackness, with just the contrast of its straight lines to the curve of natural objects about 1t, 1t commanded the bluff, summoning up memories of an evil race cut short In a moment by an outraged Providence, and Judge Ostrander, marking it, found himself muttering aloud as he | dragged himself slowly away: "Why should Time, so destructive elsewhere, leave one stone upon another of this accursed ruin?"
 When he had reached the middle of the bridge he stopped short to look I smothered groan, which would not be repressed, a name which by all the rights of the spot should have been Algernon's. but was not.
 The utterance of this name seemed to startle him, for, with shuddering look around, he hastily traversed the rest of the bridge and took the turn about the hill to where Factory road branched off toward the town. Here he stopped again and for the first time revealed the true nature of his dest1- nation. For when he moved on again 1t was to take the road along the blum.
 and not the one leading directly into town.
 This mean a speedy passing by the
 lightning-struck house. He knew, of course, and evidently shrank from the
 ordeal, for once up the hill and on the
 level stretch above, he resolutely for
 bore to cast glance at it's dilapidated
 fence and decayed gate posts. Had
 he not done this-had his eyes fol
 lowed the long line of the path lead.
 ing from these toppling posts to the
 face of the ruin, he would have been
 witness to a strange sight. For gleam
 ing through the demolished heart of
 it-between the chimney on the one
 side and the broken line of the gable
 on the other-could be seen the half
 circle of the moon suddenly released , from the clouds which had hitherto
 enshrouded it. A weird sight, to be
 seen only when all conditions favored It was to be seen here tonight; but the Judges eye was bent another way
 and he passed on, unnoting.
 The ground was high along this bluff; almost fifty feet above the leve
 of the city upon which he had just , turned his back Of stony formation and much exposed to the elements, il had been considered an undesirable site by builders, and not a house wal to be seen between the broken shell oi , the one he had just left, and the long low, brilliantly illuminated structure ahead, for which he was evidently
 making.
 The pant of a dozen motors, tho F | shouting of various farewells and ther . the sudden rushing forth of a long lint f of automobiles proclaimed that thu f fete of the day was about over ant
 that peace and order would soon pre- O vail again in Claymore inn.
 e Without waiting for the final one tt r. pass, the judge slid around to the req e and peered in at the kitchen door. e Three women were at work in thi s busiest of scenes, and the three wom J. ems heads came simultaneously to e gether. There was reason for thei @ whispers. His figure, his head, hi l, face were all unusual. and at that mo n ment highly expressive, and coming |; as he did out of the darkness, hi e presence had an uncanny effect upol
 their simple minds. They had beel 't laughing before; they ceased to laugl @ now. Why?
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