The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-07-21 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

SOUNDS AT NIGIM-Everyone liar Iv:liked .',........' audio an inetaut the boat was keel uppermost ! " ay! conscience. Thornton,-conscieuce that I thought singular sounds are heard at night-noises bpotL-7,,,1 Moreton pronounced the loot words rapidly, and in I had overcome; as well I might, for had I not seen unexplainable, and consequentiv mysteriousn- --m -"/ au undertone-nod etopped :he raised the wine do. the young and healthy sink, when I might have saved? ghost story has sprung up frirm au en ' ~,,-.°,11 canter from the table, but let it drop again. Moreton and how could I leave believed that? . . but so it noise ; many a person terrified beyond meaa -77' laid yet, arid nothing to criminate himself ; the illui- was, and is ; look at me, and you will see what con- unexpected sound at midnight. Sir David ll -',,„..° dent appeared, from his narrative, purely accidental ;1 Pelenee his made of me. Agnes sickened, and as you gives an excellent account of a mysterious nigh7,,„,,--'' and I' therefore said " Well, Moreton-the bores were , knew. died" Thie I felt as a relief; and for a time I which would have frightened many persons, butt "-": en unhappily drowned; but it NM the consequence of obtrdeatfleeredlinmgttorerefturretledy,, aatinddl Imifearrietyagdaiany. bluotmmey. .epr,oveerd utAtegrelyittlheatuarmtl7haLwrdheanetreeantedge oboLeitt :vow:2 their own imprudence." "Thumb'-," said he, "yen are here to hear a men- more burdensome to me. Strange, that events long soon after getting into bed ; his wife hew i;-A,ht tendon ; lata here to make it :-'tier of no use shrink- passed become more and more vivid, but so it is. The but not at the time when she retired, a tittle ing from it. Fame a glass of ovine, for my bared evening on the Cam, and the death-chamber of old than be. No probable causemuld be assigned, ,-,,,76 trembles. Now, two ef the boys, the youngest I never Bellenden, are alternately before the. & i Tett upon the magination becarae rather unpin.; as God is my judge,. r believe if I bad seen the "Now, Thornton, yon flare heard &IL Are you now He found sometime afterwards that the mund ems ~..„.7„youngest, • 1 would have done my uttermost to have ready to framet rd hh will as I directed? lam possessed s wardrobe whisk stood neesthe head of Ina saved him. I suppose they rank beneath the boat, and of a quarter of a million. and it belongs to the heirs almost alwaye opened and closed this warthehe 7,„! floated down beneath de-surface. The °Meet, he rose of dose for where it was originally destined" undreming ; but as the door was a little tight he c'h close to me ; leould hayo saved him. I believe! would Some coeversation here ensued, in which my object not quite close it. The door, poeeibly refit be have saved him, if lie had cried for help. I ear him IMo:. to chow, ff2s.t.lalthough the large property at gradual changes of temperature, forced itself cm y, lett fort moment. I think, when j week out to swim, mengowe diepos,,,tought never to have been , yet a sort of dull sound which was over in animist. y,e; I kicked him beneath the water-undesignediv, Thom- i• the even% villielv he had related had not en the lady not being Midis habit of using that en,io,-ton,-undesignedly : but I. did, not turn round to help cc it lieVer could have come into theXli ,on of de rir: • became associated with her Lushind ' 7  could _ those for whom he now destined it. I however the propriety of the principle of restitution to the branches Of the family in which it had been originally vetted. but prevailed with Mr. Moreton, in having a competency reserved for his own ehildren and for ltis wife, who married in the belief that he wait able JO provide for her. Aml upon these principles, accordutgly, the testament STAB fremed and completed the some evening. It grew Into. "Walter Moreton," said I, rising to take leave, "let this subject drop for ever. When we meet agate, let there be no allusion to the transaction. of tine evening." "Thornton," he maid. "we eltall never meet again.' There are remedies, my friend," deid I, for could I refuse to call the wretched man before me friend ?" " there ere remedies for the acenewions of conecience. apply yourself to them : if the mind were relieved by religione consolations, bodily health would return. You are yet little put the prime of life, I trust we may meet again in happier circumstances. Conecienee, . Meretou, not given no to kill, but to cure." 'Moreton faintly smiled. "Yes, Thornton," said he, "there are remedies, I know them, and will not fall to 'seek their aid. Good night!" I returned to the het, and soon after retired to bed, as may be easily believed, to think of the singular revelations of the evening. For some time these thoughts kept me awake, but at length I fell asleep. My dreams were disturbed, and all about Walter Moreton. Sometimes he wee swimming in the river, or standing on the bank, pointing with his finger to a human head that was just sinking, sometimes he was sitting by the bedside of old Dellenden examining the phials, and walking on tiptoe to the door, and listenmg, and sometimes the scene of the past evening wee renewed, when Last and listened to hie narrative. Thou again, he had a phial in his hand, and uncorked it, aud in raising it to his mouth, it seemed to be a small pistol ; and just at this moment I awoke! The last scene remained forcibly and vividly on my mind. It inetantly occurred tp me that he might have meditated suicide, and that that was the remedy of which he spoke. I looked at my watch, it was an hour past midnight. I hastily dressed,-and hurried to Truropiugton Street. There was a light in one of the windows. I knocked gently at toe door, and at the game time applied my hand to the knob, which yielded. I hurried up Bistro, directed by the situation of the light I had seen, and entered the room. Moreton stood near to the ben, beside a entail table, a phial in his hand, which, at the moment I entered, he laid down. I sprang forward and seized it—it was already empty. "Ai, my friend!" said I—but farther speech was useleee. Moreton was already in the grasp , of death!  mystery Had they given way to imagination, and ueve 6rated the affair, another haunted home woad' been added to the long row already standing. THE CONT d