Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 18, 1874, Page 11

LEPROSY, In ccolifornia and the Sandwich © Islands.- _ TheHistory and Character ofthe Disease. From the Springfleld (Mass.) Republican. Now that the season of cholera is safel7 past, snd the terrible sellow fever that has rendered gesolate Memphi and Shreveport has succumb- ed to the cool, xnvlgonung wr of winter, people of the nervous, ansious temperament will find a eg to baog their fears on in the snnouncement of 8 pewapaper correspondent at Ban Franciseo, ot tho appoatence sud epread there of the LOATHSOME DISEASE OF LEPROSY. According to the statements of this correspond- ent, which we suspect to be exaggerated, the gisease in Califoroia has been hitherto mostiy confined to the Chinese, but lately several cases of it amopg white men have come to light, and Judge Asher Bates, a woll-known citizen, died in the Jeper’s hospital at 8an Francisco only a short {ime since. Furthermore, the writer eays that ovez 200 Chinamen are known to be infected, gnd from the facts that the disease is essily con- cealed in its firet stages, and of the secretive Jabit of this Tace, it is thought that it may bo MUCI MORE FPREVALENT (hsa sppearauces indicate. The presumable gource of the contagion is the Sandwici Islands, wbenco, in sccordance with the easterly-current fheory, it was transported to San Francisco by some Chiuamen. that had been domesticated’ shile with the Hawaiians ; and from this foot- pold in California the alarmist would have us believe the gangrene will cut its way clean through the nation, and make leprosy as com- mon with us a8 in Oricutal countries. Soms forty years ago, alorg with the intro- auctios of Christianity, of trousers, of whisky, and otlier ipstitutions s civilized . natious, the geeds of the plague were implanted among the gentle natives of the Sandwich Islands. As the gtory 1uns, s German from China, with the gisease fastened on bis bones, settled among the iphabutants, and, marrying a native wife, Bscded Gown through his posterity this dire in- Yieritance. About nino years since, tho disease hsd become so alarmingly frequent that » law was framed designed to 4. CUECK ITS DISSEMINATION. A seclnded novk ia olokai, %in round about by tle ses, and walled out from the main portion of {he is'and by 3 precipice 2,000 feet in height,was sclected for s lepers’ settlement. To this place the law banished every one iufected with the Jisease; nod one of the most heart-rending scenes, it is said, ever wituassed in these izlands, is the separation of friends and kindred from the tainted wretches whoso fate it is to be trans- rted to Molokai.” And terrible caate there is fo bowail this soparation. To be & loper is to be doomed to a living death; all eivil rights are taken anay from-the infected maa; his wite s gienied an absoluto divorce; and the re- wmainder” of his days must bo miscrubly sent in s desers nook in compauionsbip with bundreds of other mortals as unclean snd miserabis as bimeelf. Tlus decroe of sepa- ration was almost a dead letter tili the death of the lato King, who was himself suspected of being leprous. Recently, however, the law has been relentlessly enforced, and there are now £13 lepers colonized at Molokni; and, according 10 the report of Dr. Tronsseau, who bas the un- pleasmnt task of searching out snd branting the Tnclean ones, there are now no more than fifty cases ecattered about the island a: large.” out of confinement ; and tie doctor thinks that with six months more of vigilance ou the part of the sutherities the pest will be ENTIBELY ERADICATED. Inarecent letter from Charles Nordhoff io the Now, York Tribune, we have this vivid de- ecription of the wolated spot on Molokai inhab- ited by these leprous ou‘casts, their method of life,.ard trestment by the Government : From the cdge of the pait or precipice, tho plain te- Iow, wbich ccntuins about 16,001 acres, looks like an sbeclnte flat, bounded on iluee eides by the blus Pacific, The whole great plain is composed of luva Etones, and, to one unfemiliar with the habits of the Sundwi b Islanders, would seem to be an sbeolutely sterile desert, Yet here lived, not sery many -yerrs 20,3 considerble population, who "have lefi the ks of an almost incredible industry in numero fields inclosed between walls of lava rock, well Jaid u and in what is et strunger, long rows of stones, the windrows of Loy in » grazs-feld 2t _home, evident- X piled there in order to secure room in the long, arrow beds partly cleared of lsva which lay between, foplant sweet pitatoss. When B leper ‘is sent to Moloksi, the Government provides him a . housc, . and be reccives, if an adult, three pounds of mial (uomixed po) per day, and three’ younds of ealt salmon,. or = five pounds of fresh beef, per week. Beef is generally pre- ferred. They are allowed and encournged to culLvato Land, and their products are tought by the Health- Doard; but tic disease quickly attacks the fect and Lands, and disables the sutferers from labor. Thero aro tW0 churches in tha settlement, one Protestant, %1th » native pastor, and one Catholic, with'a white priest, s young Frenchman, who bas had the :ourage fo devote himself to his co-religionista, Thero i 3 store, kept by the Board of Health, (ks articles in which are sold for cost and expenses. The peoplo re- ceive a good deal of money from fheir relatives at bome, wlich they spend in this store, Tue Govera- mont also supplics ali th? lepere with clothing.. Thero 15 also 8 Post-Olice, and tho little schooner which car- ricd me back to Honolulu bare over 200 letters, the weekly mall from the leper settlement, THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HORRIBLE DISEASE wre thus described by the same writer: The leprosy of the fslands ie a_disease of the blood sndnota ¢kin diesse, It can be canght ouly, I am assured, by contact of an sbraded suriace with the matter of the leprons sore ; ond doubtless the habit of the people, of maw; oking the same pipe,” has done much to disseminste it, Its first noticeable signs are 23light pufliness under the eves, and a swelling of the lotew of the cars. -Next follow eymptoms, which vary greatly in different individuals ; buta marked elgn is the retraction of the fingers, 86 that the hand comes to recemble s bird's. claw. In some cases the faco sweils in ridge, leaving deep furrows between ; and these ridges are'ehiny and without fecling, so that a Pin moy be stuck into one without giving rain to ihe Pereon. The features are thus horribly deformed it some casea ; 1 eaw two or three boys of 12 who looked Iike oldmen of 60, At a later stageof the disease thess rugous swellings break open into festering Bores ; the mose and even the eyes are blotted out, an the bods becomes putrid. In other cases e extremi- ties aro most eevercly attacked, The fingere, after be— ing drawn in like clawr, begin to fester. "They do not £cem to drop off, but rather to be absorted, the nnils following tne stumps down ; sad L'actually saw finger- oailt on a hand that hod no’ fugern, The mails were onthe kunckles; tho fingers had all Totted away, - Tho £4e process nf decay goes on with the tocs ; in some cuses the whole foot had dropped awsy ; and in many the bands and foet were healed . over, the fingers and {028 having dropped off. But the healing of the sore isbot temyorary ; the discase presently breaks out o, Emaciation does not £eem to follow. Isaw ‘ery few wasted form:, snd those oply in the hos- pitals, and among the worst cases, There appeurs to Lexn astonfehing tendcity of life, snd I was told they mostly choke to death, or fall into a fever caused by owing the pojeon of their sores when these attack e noke and hroat, K “ ¢ SRR ANE PLENTY OF PATILTIC INSTANCEY rhfil_g fervent attachments and sell-eacrifice’ of 'ee= beathen islanders for kindred or friends ¥ho may have been dragged away to this hving entombment at Idolokai. Any clean person who Persiath in following a leper to Lis auishment Tust promisd never to quit the scttlement, and Jet, foolliardy as it seems, there ate numerous Gases of individuals who havs jorfully accopted tLia terrible renunciatiop in oider to contiuze o comnacicnsbip with some deatly loved oe. Hr, Charles Warner Stoddard notes s romantic incident of this kind in an interesting article on lhThz Lepers of Molok: n s late number of e Orerland Monthly. He says: wllr_-e was a'young native, who was perhaps 20 years g2, splendidiy develoned, and with very attractive Iatmers, If he bad choseri, he might have passed a life of Lurestrained sensuality, for it 18 next to impossible for -fil,’ fellows to' be decent; but he bad séen s womsn s face Like a cobra—a hideous, lithe creature, pos— fting the charms of Medusa—thicre was something {oiuating in the vers flutter of her garments, ss h“;sn €16 wcrg mot wholly buman; & Woman, Who, 1her best days, had belonged to the King's House- , 20d wko yct preserved an air of royaliy, but who b been Lanizhed to Molokai witk the thadow of e Hligue npon ber. Sooner or later, that youth expected 1o racrifice Lig Lody to the plague.’ At any rate, mever &in could he hopeto quit that village—where, in- &% he was guite coutented, and in nowjre’ Tegreiful 1% the teaptations of bis islind world, e tecued to © fl:fla some eingular spell ; for he was familiar with ¢ Borzars of tho pluce, aseocisted with lopers of high ow degree, and at the sumo time preserved a light and a clicerful spirit that bordered on {mvolity. Leprosy id its varons forms is as . Th OLD AS HISTORY ITSELF. B o8 Jews Lrougut it_juto Palestine with them 93 their exodus from Egypt, and_how terribly {57 Wero ravazed by it moy be inferred from he trict reguiations of the" Mosaic laws for its 7pression. . Indeed, the Orient scems to be +¢ pitural home of the disease, and every ‘fu‘;m town of any size has had withoutits n {rom time immemotial its colony of lepers. Lthe West Las not leen exempt from tho e by any means. Europe in the Middle €8 suffered extensively, so that every couatry Tolin its limis abounded with bospitals for 1ebers, and the diseasa was the subject of much ‘_;!fi}a_uou. ‘The 1cturning swarms of Crusaders okt period were the prolific source of its trread, uud through their agency it was_carried the remotest nook of every Lingdom. 2 = Neither was its dread-vizitation confined'to-the 1~ lower classes, WAS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS; the peasant and the noblo suffored alike, & King- Robert the Bruce of Scotland o it leprosy, while several of the English Kings had it, or died with it. At one time there was an or- der of Kvighthood founded with the appropriate titlé of the Knights Hospitalers of Bt. Lazarus, the Grand Master of which had to b6 a lepes, and whose ministrations were confined to the care of this unfortunate class. But with the dawn of the later cirilization and the comfurts and clean- liness which it disteminated, Europe shook off this horrid nightmate of disease that had been goawing at its vitals for many years, and now, save in portions of Norway and lower Italy, it is entirely exterminated from the continent. Leprosy has always been considered . INCOBABLE. To a certain extent it is hereditary, and long ex- perience secms to prove that it is contagions, though ouly mpon fhe most persistent inter— miogling and sctual contact with leprons per- sons, The general treatment of lepars has ever been the same. Outcasts thoy have always beon and debarred from all civil aod social privileges. In the olden timo, whea the plague infested Bn- rope, this ostracism was accompanied by the coremonin! for the burial of the desd. Massos were said over the Foor diseased victim, but to make the illusion still more vivid a shovelfal of earth was thrown upon his body. Although the diseaso Lns baffled all remodics down throngh the ages to tho present, sull modical scienco does not despain. Indoed, the Pall Mall Ga- zetle baa information from 'Indis, lately, of the discovery by the a\xr?aon 1 charge of the penal settlement at Port Blair of what is said to bo This is the oil of the gurjun treo, which grows in that country. Every leper at Port Dlair is r ported to bave been cured by it: and the su guine doctor 18 wartiog to establish the perm: nence of the results before proclaiming physical salvation to the thousands of loprous humarity that abound in Eastern countriés and the 1slands of tho South Pacific. 2 FAREWELL T0 1873. Linearead to “ Unity Church Fraternity,” Chicago, at (AT A i o Ten years ago to-day, my friends,— Tea years 150 to-day,— The clouds of war were over us, And pesco seemed far away s The strife bad lasted then 60 long Tt seemed twould never cease, And it sometimes seemed that victory Was farther off than peace, The solemn, sombre sound of drums Was almays {o our ears, As, Tegiment by regiment, Ftarclied forih our volunteers, “Welre coming, Father Abrabam, Three bundzed thousand more," ith straining lungs and aching hearts . We sang the dreud encore. And Oes the President Limeelf, Our leader strong and steady, TThe shadow of his coming doom Brooded unseen already, Our best and dearest marched swsy _ Only to find a grave: They joined the throng innumerabla 0f unrctuniing brave, Againat the solid reve Fanks Our columna stormed and thrndersd ; TThe hospitals were brimming full— And gold almost threo hundrod ! Thote daye, dear friends, were sad enough, To thus you'll all agree,— . [The days of war, aud waste, and work, @ " Tho days of sixty-turee, 11, then, amid our doubie strife "Gainst bankruptcy and treason, A ratriot lost iourt and hore, ‘He bud some sort (F reason. Dot now, let’s look about us And seo just where we stand ! No war now rears its horrid front In our united land; And every threatening storm that comes Our ek to overcast, But leaves it clearer, lovelier Thon ever, when 'tis past.. The fertile carth pays Luvishly For all the work we do, And one vear's cotton, grain, and pork Supylics the necds of two. No blow 80 heavy but our strength Is ample to eulure it A Jittle timo is aul the balm We need apply to cure it. Let's eco vhat are some miserls Misfortunes, disappointments, In this decado Fave been repairod By Time's all-healing ointments, Chicago burns! The timid exy That she will rise no more: Two years roll by, and lo! e stands More gloriour than before! ‘Then dear old Boston follows sut, <~ Not only in the burning, Batn ber Lappy, hearty style 0f bck to life returning. Then In the Empire City, whers ‘Abuscs had arisen, They break the plots, and burat the rings, And clap the rogucs in prison. One victory like that, my {riends, So many evila righting, - Is richly worth to all the land Ten years’ corruption-fighting. . Somo railways have been built by jobe, And come to grief financial; Bat 200n the troubles paes away— The structures are substantial. = wall Streot eends out and builds our roads, And Wall Street foots the bill; And then, when Wall Street goes to smash, The rouds are with us still, (So when the crash came, and the Strect Stopped paymet in dismay, . Our banks, pot baving built our roads, Could go nhead and pay.) We fit out the Virginius ; ‘She's capturcd on the main,— But, ere we cazia quarrel pick, They send her back again. And now she's sunk where memories And gJam-ehells cluster 'round her § ‘We might Lave found her troublesome But for that lucky founder ! Here, in our own glection, Our opposites yrevailed 3 Aud, now that we bave failed, we ind * 7Tis fortunate we fated. Who kmows in what a labyrinth, Inextricably caged, & We might Lave found oursclves involved, - —Or Tathor say, en-Gaged ? Thus all our reasonable wants *" Our kindly Fate supplics; And cven our misforlunes tarn. To blegsings in disguise. By all the ruies of common sense, Low epirita chould be Lanished, Sinco all we hoped hos come to pass, ‘And all we fearcd has vanishod. And set, and yet, and yet, my friends, *Tin ureloss o deay it Having no good, sufliclent woes Our tempers fo disquiot, We conjure up uoreal ones With sorcery Satanie, - Drcss bugaboos toscare ourselves, 'And so—we're in & panic! No dangers being Smminent, We yet are sore dismnyed, And phake with terror in the fest That we shall be afraid. Even £o small 8 rcumstance. s the prevailing lack 0f bits of printed paper tinted Green upon the back, We magnify into a sbape That takes away our breath, As if we'd pover imown such things 'As treason, wounds, aud death, Ten sears ago, our loss and waste Were of o kind of treasurp That figures nover could express,~ ‘Money could pever meature. Ten littlo years sgo, my friends, Tt would havo scemed like Heaven 6 eee our Union safe and sound, And gold st one-eleven! But thep, with pani's and stampedes, “Thero ia tkis one thing sure: ‘Reason has paught fo do with them,— Can’t cause, can’shape, can’t cure. Perhaps sou'll say, “ Where, then's, the uss 0f all (hs loug oration? °_ Let’s face the music, own thé corn, “Accept the situation Make up our minds, aud be resigned To do, sa do we shull, The same as all other the mules Tn this unfenced corral. 1 am stampeded, sa are 508, And bluc s blue can be,— A good deal bluer than we wers In eighteen-sixty-thres: You needn't ampiify the rolnt; You necdn't think we doubt it You need but tell us, if you can, What we'rs to do sbout it.” « The boy in the church-yard at night ‘Amoug tho tomb and thistles, ow does he keep his coursge up? He says his prasers, and whistlce, Let's Loidly front theae onstrous shapes— They soon will be laid low; Alive or dead they're paught to us, Culees we maka them €0, These specires we huva conjured up, . That now loom 2o immense, Esteem them as they will sppear Looked back st ten years hence, 1In eighty-three, some other msn Afay stand ufl bere snd say ¢ 4 What tickiish times there scemed tobs ~ Ten years ago to-day.” ZLet's kcep this sterling fact in view, -™In former times well known, Namely: %is union gives us strength,— Wo're cowards when alone. ‘Shoulder to ehoulder, band in hand, We'll fight the dresd chimers, Aud thus in patfence work and walt “For some more prosperous ere. Lels show ourselves and all tbs world ‘Our spincs are bone, not grisle; ZLet those who can all £ay.thelx prayers, And I (you se) can whistle. o - —A prudent match-making mamma gave the followiug candid advice to'berdlug_hber : “Oh, marry the wan yon love, girl, if heis as rich as Creesus.” .| head and face, and ~ THE DUMBERDENE: " BY L. X. KXATCHBULL-EUGESSEN. It would be impossible to find in the wide world a more thorough disbeliever in ghosts than I was in the year 18—, ~"An Eton boy, fall of life and spirit, fearless and active, I was the last person to believe in anything approachiog to bumbug. . That is what I should have eaid in those days, and [ eay it now to show you how ungenial was tho soil which was yet destined to produce s goodly crop of faith. In that eaid yesr, 18—, Harry Bandeswyke and I, aged re- epectively 18 aod 17, matriculated together at College, Oxford. =~ We were great friends and constant companions, Harry and I, and wero different 1n every Way, as great {riends generally are. He was a big fellow, six feet six without his shoes, brave, sweet-tempered, silent, lazy; a man to sleep soundly through a Walpur- gis Night, to yawn and go to Sleep agnin if he chanced to wake while the spints raged around him. Iwaselight and excitsble, with a quick tempersand no lack of wurds. Yet we wero sworn allies. 4 Ho was hoir to 8 goodly property in Wales, which, howover, he had never seon. It be- longed to distant cousins; and, besides a fino old castle and many acres ¢f mountain, there wasa fina old quarrgl to keepup. With a lamentable want of respect for the aniginators of the fend, tho present possessor of that great privilege appeared inclined to siretch forth the Land of riendship to his heir. In point of fact, he did stretch out that handat the time my story be- gins, and invited Hary to spend the vacation at the Dumberdene, for this was the extraordi- nary name of an extraordinary place.’ Harry was engaged to me; but his answor to that effect producing s sordial invitation to bring his friond with nim, ve at once resolved to go. 1t was & long joarney in those days, and we arrived late aftera tedious drivo, for the Dum- berdeno was in the wildest part of -, far in among the moantains. The evening gloom was deepeniog a3 wa turned into the park, and even tiren wo Liad arother three-quarters of an hour’s worlk before us; for, after a short run on level ground, we began to ascend anothier intermina- ble mountain zigzag. At length, after a short pull more ab:upt than any we bad yet experi- enced, the cartiage came to & stop, and I ex- claimed with regret that it was too dark to seo the bouse. We were mistaken. It was only too dark becanse wo were already in tho house. The cacriage rolled forward once more through a short passage cut out of the rock, and we fouud onrselves in a ball of vast dimeusions, lighted Dy & hnge lamp in the centre, and a bonfire of wood av each end. That was our entrance into the Dumberdono. We both burst out laughing with boyish glee. Ab, could wo have foresecu Low eadiy hnked with ‘our futuro lives was much that was vorf near us then, butof which we Lt~ tle dreamed We were most kindly reccived by Mr.and Mrs. Bandeawylke, and their only cmld Gwen. I sup- pose the name of the latter was Gwendolin, but I never heard her called anything but Gwen. She was tall, fair, and stately. A face calm and self-poesesred ; grand with the beauty of & pure woman to trust in the hour of danger. Her father was, with the exception of Harry, tho most eileut mau I ever met perpetually brooding over—what? A crime? a mystery? & problem? The mother was commonplaco enough; small, dark, active, and energetic; Imausging everything and everybody, aud talk- ing enough tor busband, child, aud cousin. We were alove. The famuly retired to rest early, leaving us alone. r. Bandeswyke apologized in fewer words than I shoutd hinve thought poe- sible. He was.somewhat of an invalid, He hoyed we should_make ourselves quize at home. “ Lively work," smd 1, na the door closed; ** I mean to go mad, Harry; will you?" * Certainly.” 1t is & queer old place. Fancy rumblinginto the ancestral Liall in oue’s carriage. I den's balf likeat. Itis producing s bad effect on my deii- cate constitution. I feel ghostly all over. Iam already suffering from ghost of the heart, ghost 30 ull iny Limbs, very bad ghost indced 'in my :lmu shortly die of delinum hostums. J.inrryl ey Well 2" “ How do you feel in the tors " abodo of your ances- rattled on a8 usual; walking restlessly-abont the room. pecribg bebind -the tall old-tasbioned screens, and lookiug into the quaint cabinets. Prosently I proposcd-that we should explore the rooms near us. + No,” said Harry, in a voice which meant no. He would base done:t in any other house, but this was to be his own some day. Then I sug- gested that wo should go ont and smoke. iarry rose and stalked to the door. We had |.some difficulty in finding our way out. In fact, we wandeied to the butier's room, and had to be set night and to encounter sundry remounstrances from that individual, an old aud privileged serv- ant. It was pitch-datk when we stood outeide the house, but presently the moon passed from behind & clond, and we stepped forward to have a look at the place. It wasan enormous pile of building, very ancicnt, especially ono _portion, which, partially ia a Fuinous state, stretchicd 2way 40 far among trees, foliage, and mountains that in the pale moonlight we could not discern where ic ended. Wo both uttered an exclamation of nslo‘r/'uhmeut, and I turned to Harry with a | Jow b#/, and_congratulated Lim on his beirship to this mass of ghostlinces and rain. “Don't be an ass,” said Harry, a8 he moved towards the bouse, for at this moment the moon was again ¢ sscured, sod & diviog min set in. . We bad go e but by aside door, and though wo returned | y the eame, we again lost our way, and found ourselves, sfter much wandering, ouco more m the great eatrance. ball.. I knew that our rooms were not far off,and professing sn accurate knowledge, I went on first with the | light. Harry lingered, and I looked back to see j why he did not follow me. He was standinj at the entranco of thé paseage dewn which I b turned, aud was groping about with lis right | band, as if struck with sudden blindness. “\What is the matter?” said I. * Come on, can't vou 2" ] can't find the handle of the door,” said he, still fumbling. . N *What door ?" ©The door you shut.” 1 ghut nodoor. There is no door,” said I, laughivg ; but it just passed throuzh my mind, thovgh 1 did moi remember it till afterward, that s voice did sound mufiled, as if & door wero shut between us, I stepped back ioto the hall. There was no door; and aa we walked back tozether, I laughed at Harry, and asked Dim 1f ho did not thiuk be too was suffering from delirium ghostums, or at least o slight attack of | ghost in the jointe. 1t was Lho wiong passsgs after all, for it ended | in o real door of immense thickness, bolted snd barred. Soon after that we found our way and our rooms, and went to bed. Thonext day was long and dull, to me at least, although it was chiefly spent in walkiog and rding over the property, at some future time to bo Harry's. Ho was not dull, for Gwen was with us all day: and although it was bardly & caso of love at first sight, that good calm face hod evidently a growing attraction for him. M. Bandes- wyko meant that it should be so, and was offi- cious enough to bave sporied all. After bieakfast wo all set forth to look over {ho house, first going out of doors to gain an 1dea of the extorior. I had never even imagined such a plave. Its sizo alone made it remarkable, and the massive walls and buttresses, the enor- mous beams, the narrow Joop-holes of windows suggested the iden that it had been originally built for defense. It stood on a terrace or table- ]aod of the mountain, which towered thonsands of feet above it af the back, and descended pre- r_ipiusle]f about a hundred yards from the front. So completely was the castle, in_tbe oldest part, built into the rock, that God's work and man’s work were here hardly to be distinguished apart. The difficulty was increased by the paitially-ra- ined stato of this portiou of the building, =nd still more £0 by oné peculiar featureof this mag- nificeat place, viz.: the luxuriance of tho trees and folisge. Three esormous cedars partially concealed” the ruin from almost_every point of View, and the mass of foliage which creps down the mountain-side entwined itzelf alike round rock and stone, brick and buttress. ‘When we Lad looked and admired long enough, we passed through tho great ball to the clois- ters, aod from thence to & gloomy chapel full of Danners and escutcheons of many. a gencration ‘| past. At the end of all the sight-seeing we found ourselves on the battlements, from which » fapulous number of counties and churches were to bo scen. Wa returned to the hoase by 2 trap-door and short steps into a low, dark lob- br, full of rubbish, boxes piled up, old farni- ture, injured pictares, etc. " 'I'ha] lnml‘:er-mom," eaid Mr. Bandeswyke shortly, a8 Lo led the way rapidly to the stair- case. Aly attention was_attrasted by a curious old screen. and I stopped to examine it. Behind it was a door so curious that I called to Harry to come and look at it. 1t was arched in form, and 1 of immense strength, though very low. Five » and trathful spirit portrayed in each feature; a* No apswer. To this I was accustomed, and | THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY .13, 1574, rl -bapds~of-iron~ nearly s “foot~ in breadth™ nailed across it. * Burely, sir, this is a curiosity,” eaid I, tamn- ing to Mr. Bandeswyke. Ho was sone, but Gwen stood beside us. Gwen and Hamyand L Ah, once more were we destined to stand side by side at that door! - . “It1s" eaid she, answering my romark; ‘it jeads to’ the old part of the bouse, which my father considers nnsafe, 8o that it i8 never en- tered. I believe this door has ead assoctations for him. He never likes to hear it talked of.” At another time I should have tensed Gwen with boyish curiosity ro tell us more, but the oppression which I could not shake off kept me silent. By 5 o'clock the day set in for rain. By 6, we bad one of the most tremendous storms it has ever bcen my lot to witness. Our ride had been cut short, and we were employing ourselves 28 best we might in the billiard-raom, when the door burst open, and the old butler entered into the room. Thero was that in his appesrance which mado us leave our game and gaze at him with astonishment. His head trembled, his dress and hair were diesianged and wet. Evi- dently ho had been ont in the storm. « Master, the tree's down, aud this is the 20th of August!” he exclaimed in a choked voice. And 3Ir. Bandeswyke, the last to eco im, turned suddenly in the very actof playing, aud promptly responded, **You old fool!” in a tons of such energy, and a manner so difforent fcom his usnal rescrve, that Harry and I looked at one another in amazement. Mr. Bandeswyke aod his servant vanished be- hind the swing-door almost as soon a8 the two sentences were uttered, and Gwen recalled ns to our gamo with a composure which made us feel that the incident was no business of ours. Mrs. Bandeswyke had lesa tact, and poured forth ex- cuses for master and man. Gwen quietly stopped her with the remark that Ransloy was & very old servant, and 6o attached to the place that the loss of a single tree was a real trial to bim, Wit a miod prepared to receive strange impressions in tbis strange _place, 1, however, fancied that her carelessncss was pesumed, and, narrowly watching, I porceived that her ‘hand trembled as she tried to steady her mace. Mr. Bandeswyke appearcd no mose till the ar- rival of the other guests, and before that event ocourred we had a dreary time of it, for Gwen lixewise diesppearcd, and we were left to the tender mercics of her moiher. The gucsts were dull,” Harry was dull, Mr. Bandeswyke was dull, I was dull. I may as well aay it at once: wo were all dull, save Gwen, who wae just as usual. In spite of that, I'was glad when we dinperzed for the night. “ Let's go ont apd smoke,” I whispored to Harry, a8 we stood together at the drawing- room door. Gwen was close to us and heard. She turned Emk and said, loud enough for her father to 0ar : 10, not to-night, do not go out to-night. It is no damp after theso scorms.” It was unlike Gwen. I felt annmoved. Old Dandeswyko waxed paternal on tho spot. * My dear boys, don’t think of such a thing. You have no iaea of our mountain air after a storm. Go to the billinrd-room.” We thanked bim, and vanished to onr reoms. My curiosity was again roused. Why were father and daughter leagued to prevent us from going out? Of couree we went. 4T wonder why they did not want us to go,” said I. ¢ Rheumatism,” said Harry shortly. « Tlumbug.” responded I. ‘Dot more lengthily, and then added : ** That might do for madam, Dot for master, nor for—" + Miss Bandeswyko,” interrupted Harry with decision, Then I know what was to happen. We had talked of her as Gwen before we came to the Dumberdene, ‘We walked on-in sileace till we came to the top of the stops leading down the mountain. The moon, which was at the full, was almost entirely obscured by masses of black clouds, driven widely over her face. I'or tho moment. as we #tood under the rocky wall, the full mild light illuminated the scens before ns—tho old castle, the mountaia, the trees. Involuntarily we both started forward, for that momont had revealod to us the. largest of the great cedars prostrate on the ground. In its fall a mass of foliage had beea torn from the old building, which was now bared to the eye. “Theo tree is fallon,” I exclsimed. Again the moonlight passed away, ind for & minute the darknoss was denee. The old tower clock struck the hour, We counted the strokes ; there were thirteen, As the last hoarse clanking sound died away, tho scene was onco more illuminated. Nou by tho moon, howeser. A red light blazed suddenly forth ioside the ruin, exactly bLehind where the fallon cedar had stood. The house was on fire! A 1ed light, a dull, glowing red. We could &ce the flames, and we could see fig- ures pass beforo them. We rushed forward, Lightest and most active, I was first at the spot. As T nproached, ono_figure becsme distinctly visible as it passed and repassed before the fire. Nay. I pansed in horror till Harry joired me; for thongh the flames werecontined to one room, thoy wers ‘apparently beyond control. and yet this fignre was plainly adding to their fury, and with & long iron rod heaping up fucl and rousing the flame. We were now 80 close to the house that we could see every line of the man's coun- tenance, and it was an evil one; cyes mear to- gether, & larze purple zcar® across tho faco, Coarse, straight, black hair, a villainous expres- sion, a dirty woollen cap with a red tassel on one side of his hend, the left leg eomewhat ehrunk, snd supported by an iron frame, the equesking of which we heard dis- tinetly as he limped aronnd his diabolical work. Prescntly he paused, and taking up s small box scattered the contonts into the firc. Its charac- tor changed 1n an instant to a vivid green, ren- dering his countenance ghastly. Apparently the heat was unbearable, for ho stepped hastily back. Hs. he stumbics, tries to savo himeclf; in vain! He falls, aud fulls into tho very middie of that furnace. with a shriek which freezes the blood in our veins. Again we dashed forward, “and the moon once more londing her light, we clambored,” grasping and clinging to tho ivy, straight up tho old wall. and crashing through the window we stood in the burning room. It was empty—no fire, no man | ~ But as if to mock us, 28 if to prove that we bad not been dresming, a larze space in tho centre was Jow- ered and bricked 28 if _to contain a fire ; s curi- ous chimney, shaped like an extinguisher, hung over it from the ceiling; sshos aud cinders, among which somo charred bones were plainty visible, wero scattered about, and an iron frame was lying straight across the quaint fireplace. It was & moment never to be foigotten. Wo looked at one apother in sitenco. Even Harry was moved. “ Can we bave come to the wroog room?" I whispered. He shook his head, and pointed to the iron. Then he crossed the room, and tiied a door. It waa locked, but the Juck was old, and we could casily have burst it, if the moonlight had vot again loft us in pitch darkness, * Come away,” I'whispered. Iam ashamed to say I was trem- bling like a girl. T mean to eee this out,” replied Harry. * Of course it is & trick. Will you fetch the lantern, or shall 17" Bothappeared equally tertible; to leave him or to be left. 4 You will bo qnickest. I will wail in a tone which admitted no reply ; out of the window and ecrambling down the ivy in asecond. As I returned with the lantern, which forto- nately we bad taken out with us, I again paused in horror, for the flames were again vimbY , aud tho man with the iron was onco more atirring them up sud hmping round them. And there, 10 the midstof the ghasatly scene, stood my own Harry, cslm, and apparently unconscious of what was possing around him. His-tall fignre and handsnme face wero ab plainly to be seen as Lis -terziblo companion. It was with a sound that was more of 8ob than a cry that I dashed on, ‘tearing my hands and my clothes aa I almost flow upthe ivy and swung mysel! ioto the room. Then I turned faint with terror, for azaiz it was empty, excepting that Harry stood waiting a8 I lett bim. I think he was sirprised st my want of pluck, His ncrves bad Leon sbaken by no provious warning, and his temperament was nob cicitable like mine. We tried 10 vain to forcs open that door. old and elight a8 the lock appearcd, 1t resisted all our offorts, We panscd. And then distinctly we heard a footstep approaching tho otner side. » halting footstap, a crenkiug iron. A hand was on the lock. The bolts flew back, aud slowly and heavily the door swung open. We bastily raised the lantern, and stepped out into the pas- sage. Noove was to be eeen. Only a sound as of rats and of falling plaster, and then all was still. Orly the wind Toee with & dreary moan through the loopholes above us, and passed us with & rush, as it wailed down the passage. We went o, throagh countless rooms and pasragrs, some wide and vaulted, some narrow and lofty, un- der deep archways, round masgive buttr:eses, down a broad ozk stnircage, now up steen wind- ing steps, till onr beads grew giddy. We wo:e antonished to find the oak floors™ firm, and the walls, though dripping with moisture and cover- ed with damp in places, perfectly soiid. _Tho place wassafe and perfectly habitable. Wby, then, was it deserted? We had turned into a picture-gallery, and there were pictures hang- ing, not against the wall, bat from the cellng, and swinging to aud fro; all but ove, a stately lady in black robes, and she was moving up aod down. We turned into a room. Beetlcs were racing, ‘cocoons™ creaking, s heap of drapery in the darkeped window, s smali bedin I the corner, and, as we passed, wo both be- came aware of & peculiar sickly odor. And of something more. -Thers was in that room what I can only describeas the consciousness of a resence. The wind had died awayin & long uil; potsscund was heard esve the hoarie creaking. of ~the ‘‘cocoons™ and our own troubled breathing, and yet we both felt that we waro not aloue. A hotflush mounted to Harry's brow. 'I koew that I was deadly pale. We looked instinctively toward the Our eyss mot. We advanced together. Again we paused.” Could it be possible that we heard the faintest sound of breathing, not our own? The tattered curtains were closed; through the slits we could see something, yeb wo could distin- guirh nothiog. Harry put ont.his hand and gently drew them back. Yes.. There lay a atill form. The long hair covered it, aod the head was tumed away. Harry raised.the head sud turned the yonng déad face toward us, and we saw high-bred delicate features, an old-young look, & strange coloring. And then came a loug shivering eigh, slight tremalons stretching, and a shrinking back to awful repose. Aud then a shrick, a woman's wail, burst forth so close, 80 very close, that it scomed 1n_our very ears, and the breath that sent it forth played upon our checks. Without waiting for it to die away, as it did with a prolonged wail throngh the vaulted corridors, we rushed from the room, fled through the passages, stambled down a staircase,. and, how I know mot, fuund ourselves safe in the open sir. We never went tobed (hat night. Wo passed it in Harry's room, in wohdering diecus- sion of tho adventure. -Never had seen Harry 8o roused, He atill leaned strongly to the opinion that somo trickery was at _work, and with morning light grew ashamed of our panic. He resolved to relate the wholo to Mr. Bandeswyke. Firm 88 was my belief in Harry's wisdom, I could not convince mysolf that all we had meen snd heard was attributable to natural causes alone. Tho next morniog we soucht aud_obtained private interview with our host, and Harry told our tale, Never did maun's face cloud overas ifr. Bindeswyke's, when he began to perceive the gist_of Harrv'a remark. 3 “Then, in spite of my warning, you did go out 1ast night.” wae hie first cbeervation. After that be listened ineilence to the end. and then he eaid with a smile, for which I bated bim, ** When the property is yours, youug eir, you will prob- ably fathom the mystery.” Harry colored violently, but diedained to re- ply. Iwasupinarms at once. *I hope, sir, you do not for » moment do Harry the gross in- justice—" “1 hava heard your ta’s,” inlerrupted Mr, Bandeswyke, ntterly ignoring my existence, and addrersing Harrv: ‘I have heard your tale. Po.sibly T hold the key to the mystery. Possi- bly it is & mvsterv to me. At allevents it is as vet no bneiness of vours, and I muost requesé that your lips nill be clored on the subject Jur- ing mv lifotime. Yon will also answer for_your friend's discretion. Do yon like to ride to-day?"” 1 fanov even Harry was nettled ac thia roply, and at the abrupt’ trapsition of suhject, and I own that I listened with delight to his rejoinder, which was merely an announcement that wo must leave the Drmberdene that dny. Not only was ho hart at Mr. Bandeswyke's manner, bat 1o my heart T felt convinced that his repugnance WaR a8 great a8 my own to passing anothernight in that haunted pilo. Mr. Bandeswrlie scemed ratber surprised, but recoived our decision with indifference. An hour Ister I was amused by his seekingus with regi.ta at onr sudden departure, entreatics that we would stay, and invitations tons to join the fam- ily in Ttaly 1o the sutumn. All this I attributed to Mis. Bandeawrke, who was evidently much voxed nt lorng us, and I was almost anary with Harry at his cordial recepcion of the last pro- posal, Gwen was vory siill, very silent. So was Harry all thst daw, and the pext, and for many days to come. Ietcemed to have grown ;}en years older in that ehort visit to his future ome. P Years passed beforesither of us revisited the Dumberdene., Our fricndsbip suffered no dimi- nution, thongh our cireers were very different. I was ordained. and succeeded to a comfortable family livine. Harry married Gwon, as I knew hewould. Flesawa great deal of her abroad. where tho Dandeswvykes lived almost entirely after our ill-fated visit. The Dumberdene was shut up. Ab longth, Mir. Bandeswyko being dead and his widow settled .in Loudon, Harry and Gwen resolved to return to the old place, with their son, & bov of 6 or 7. The following note apprised mo of their inteations: GRosvENOR STREET, July 18—, Dran Crianzx : We are in England again, snd mean to Live at the Dumberdenc, Grwen and I shall b thero o the 1th, I 15k 3ou ta join usas the greatest possi- blo favor. I know’ your borror of the place, but the mystery must bosolsed, Ineed your help ss friend and clergyman, I know more than Idid. Come. Prepare to'zongh it, as we bring no_rervants at first— for reasons, We leave the boy in town. Yours ever, HARnY DANDESWTKE. “Ag fricnd and clergvman.” The first, of conrso: the sccond I could not comprehend, un- Jees he wanted me_to exorcige tho demouns, snd I emilod to myeelf at theideansT journeyed along. Yearshad weakened. the vivid impres- giona of the time.: For Harry was_right; it had been a terror to me for long. Ihad asevero nervons illness irsmediately afterward, and for some time I conld not bear to Lear the nsme of the place. Dear good Harry met mo at the last stazs; and, a5 wo wound p the zigzag to the Castla, he told me all he had Lcard from Gwen of tho mystery, ana detailed his plan, which was very pimplo. Gwen's father was tho youngestof seven Lrothers, who one aftor another inherited tbe Dumberdene, 2nd all died childless, or leav- ing only Gaughters. Their father had been are- markable man—most remarkablo ; for the force of his character was such that his dircctions were réhgiously and minutely obsorved aftor his death by every one of his sons, down to the very oungost, although tho latter was but 10 years old when left 3n orphan. They had never called bim father, nor could any one of them recall a word of kindness from him. Ile appeared to liave struck awe into their vory souls; an awo sufficient to render disobedience to bis wishes a8 impossible when he rested in_bis grave, and they were themeelves gray-hesded, a8 in the days when be was named among fthem as “the master,” and when, a8 “timid lads, they _trembled at the sound of bis voico. Before any of thr-a could remem- ber, the entrances {o the older part of the castlo had been closed and barred. They bad never been allowed to approsch it, inside or ont. Year Dby year tho outer walls had crumbled away; yosr by year the foliago grew and spread over wall and monutain. Not oxsof the lads had dared to explore that spot. "And when the old man was_dsing, be ecalled his eeven sons to his side, and he made each one gwear in tarn that, so long as he lived and reigned at the Dumberdeno, never should those barred doors ba opened, pever should human foot enter that past of the castle. The oath bad in cach instance been kept. Dy degrees tho building srsumed tho 2ppearaace of = ruin, though such was the solidity of the structure that, as we had ecen, it still resisted the effects of neglect. Gwen bad heard of the apparition, though she could not tell when it first made its appearance, nor had she heard noy story at- tached ta it. She.knoew, however, that her father had seen it. He bad told her this him- self. adding that he believed tho cedars aud dense foliago had alone concealed it from others. Ho attached particular importance to the middle tree, which had fallen. He had also told her that the apparition came but onco a year—on 26th Auguet. *This,” enid Harry, “accounts for his trying to prevent us from going out that night, as well as for old Ransley’s agitation. He was the only other person in the secret.” Farther than this Gwen only knew that her grandfather had co hereditary right to tLe place. His father wasarich Dutch merchant, whosa widow had becomse the,second wile of the master of Dum- ‘berdene, ihe last who rizhtlv bore that title. The firet wife had left a littlo son, who died shortly after his father, aud the property then fell into the bands of his eecond wife, the widow of the Dutchman, She hed left it to her only son, Gwen's grandfather, He had affocted the title of master, but none of his sous bad assum- edit. Gwen dimly remembered her great-zrand- ‘mother, who had long rurvived her son and most of bis chi)dren,—a wild, stern woman,won- derfully active though in extreme old age, i masses of white hair on each side of hev f:.: Gen bad scen her pacing backward anl for- ward on the terrace, recardless of wind or weasher, muttering fearfully to berself, some- times stopping suddenly, throwing up her arms above her besd, or stamping her stick oo the ound. Gwen wasin deadly terror of her. This wasall, "And Harry's plsa was toopen one of the doors of commaunication between the old and the newer part of the house, and close- Iy and attenti to examine the whole place. Arter that be nded to dismantle it, and sither to refarpieh it, or, more probably, to pull it down, and devote the space to gardens sod lawns. 4 1 am etill perruaded that the living have more to do with the mystery than the dead,” £nid be in conclusion. * Years back there was Frobably some slory attached to the place : but, tliough my seven_stop-uncles were frightened enough to obey their father to the last, his Wishes are not binding upon me, nor have they, 1 strongly uspect, been anything Like binding upon the scamps of the neizhborhood. It is a clever trick, bus I am resolved to get to the bot~ tom of it" And g0 he did, poor fellow, but not as hoin- tended. + But why do you want me s clergyman " I ‘asked, retarning to the point which had puzzled me in his letter. * ‘His colorrose as of old ; he half Isuzhcd. “Wall, Chiarloy, [ dare say yon will think it great noneense, and perhaps, aftec all, I hardly lean it ; but the child, you know. If it isa child, he must have Christian bunal.” 1 was considerably startled. Isaw that Har- ry's incredulity was not as perfect as ho tried to believe. O1d Ransley and his wife had been left in charge of the house, and Harry and Gwea had come down quite alons; uuger protense of gee- ing what repairs were roquired before they col- lected an establishment. They bad only arrived that mornipg; and ‘when we had had some Iuncheon, as it was still quite early, Harry pro- pose that we should begin our task at once, Iapproach the end of my {ale, the horrible end, and courage almost fails me to continue. In brosd: daylight on that. lovely summor day we onoe more spproached the haunted rooms—Harry - Gwen, old * Raosley, and myself. We dstermined to enter by the upper -door, that to which I bad called Mr. Bandsswyke's aticntion on our first visit; it appesred less impregnable than the one luld.inF from the hall. Tools were ready, bat it was a long job, though Harry was a vory gisut in strencth. ' At length the bars were sufficiently bent back to enable us to open the door far enongh to admit us one by one. We stood in a wide looby. Harry and ‘I re- membered it full well. He boldly led the way with his wife, who was as calm and composed a8 1f in her own drawing-room ; for was not Harry with ber? Wo passed through tho pic- ture-gallery where, still hanging from,the coul- ing, and ewinging backw. and forward, as they bad swung for fourteen vears and more— were the pictures we had seen before. There, too, was the one going up and down. “ Only the wind, :\xlmi.; whispered Harry, 2 bo draw ber arm within his oo, sad hurried er on. Why did he whisper ? and why draw near: if to guard her from harm? She -mp»j"n'-m pointing to ber of the black robes. “ How curious that this_one shon £0 up and i theranght. That I supposs hl:,hnld miniature down, Harry! is my great-grandmother. Pa] copy of that picture. S ‘vice and manner were e €0tirely as usual, so uomoved, that I folt worserTully reassured, and Harry g'anced at mo wih a prond smile which spoke volumes. We went on to fe room. No footeteps, no creaking irom, 0 whispera this tima. All was SHill: it was p-0od daslight. Wo found thepanel ont: probgy it hod noverbeen moved since our basty exi fourteen years before. Wo entered, Al oprasit had besn, The room, low-pitched and sioomy, waa littla Jss swful in the sunshine Hun’rt night, There was an_indescribable op- prossion. = We approached first the heap of drapery in the wiudow. It wasthe bodyof & Joung womsn. No sign of decay; but the ssmo atrange shriveled flesh, the samo light brown huc, that we had seen before. Gwen was now very yale, and Ransley trem- bled from head to foot. We turned to the bed, and drew back tho curtain. There lay the litile child; and whan we turned the head toward us, there was the same long shiver os bofore, but, T thanked heaven, no zciesm. I could ece that Harry dreaded it by his compressed lips and by bis firm bold of the little shoulder. This time tho eyes half opened ; there was & glimmeriog hght in them ; then anotber long sigh: and it is my firm belief that then, =nd not tiil then. the epirit passed away. The bods did not fall back into the old position-as before. It collapsed, and lay straight as Harsy placed it. He called to TFansley in a low voico. ‘The old man was on hi knees on the floor. - Tarry uttered an exclamation of impatience, and desired me to help him, whispering as_ho did 8o, ** I was wrong, Charlie; thisis no trick, There is more here than we can nnderstand.” Gently and tenderly he lifted the little child in Dbin arms, Gweo belpinghim ; good, brave Gwen; 2 woman in a thousand. IIo bore it ont of that hanated room, and laid it in tho lobby ontside. Then be rotarned for the body of the woman, and placed them side by sido. You and I must go for the coffin,” said he. Gwen will stay with Ransley here.” But, Harry, it will take time., Where shall we find one ready-made #* Gwen whispered to mo to ‘“trust to Harry; it was all propared;” and again I felt that he had never been as skoptical as he tried to bo- lieve. Leaving Grwen stonding a8 & statno, guarding the dend, nnd Ransley cronching near ner, his hend eheking as with palsy, we ran down to the ball, the great door being easily opencd from the side, a fact which we had before remarked. In tho ball we found a large packing-case, out of which Harry drew tho boards of a coffin, 8o contrived as tobe easily put together. This done wo lifted it, and prepared fo return. And then occurred once moro that epieode of ghe imaginary door. Although I was first, holding oue end of the coffia, whilo the other was in his grasp, I had not made many steps witlin the passage before he exclumed, * Wait, wait n minute! It will be crushed! There, it is crushed! How conld that door shut! And while Isaw bim groping for the handle, as before, his voico grew mutiled. It was but for o recond, however, and then he called out in his weual manner, AN right, old feltow: goon;* and we went on to where Gwen patiently awaited us. Tho coffin, though only designed for tha child, swas found big enongh to contain Loth bodies, We raised onr awfnl burden, the unknown dead, and bore it through the hall oat into the cloisters. and on to the chapel. Here, again, the estent and detail of the preparations surprised me. Not only the key of the chapel was st hand, but tno key of the family vault was with it; and, at a eiga from her hasband, Grwen placed a praver- Look in my band, and.signed mo to begin the service. Iread asonein s dream. llarcy, my brave Harry, my old, old friend, stood by mo; bLis arm touched me as I readon. Gwen was ot bis eide, & fair contrast to his firm, maaly figure. She was somewhat in ehadow, but he stood ont in bold reliof, under & flood of ‘Tuby light, which fell throngh a window behind him. There bo was, & picture of life and bealth. AL, how little could I divine that I was readiog that burial servica for the living, 28 well as for the long, long dead ! It wae over. Harry lingered ere we left the vault. We bad work before us, and time lin- gered not; yet he paused, and with unwonted demonstration of a love too deep for utierance, he passed his arm around his wife's waist, an kissea her brow; and as I walked on, I beard him whisper, *3ly darling, you bave been every- tlung to me; be bruve to the ond.” Then we returced to the haunted rooms. Harry was in better epints than st first—the worst was over. The noxt step was to make a thorongh examination and clearance of the room whence the bodies had beea removed. ¢ We may find something more which ono would mot wish to become the talk of tho neighborhood,™ eaid Harry; whole place puiled down, Iam resolved.” We began our work, drawing back curtains and opening the shutters of one window which had been A}luim closed. As we did so we perceived a door, hitherto nnoticed, in the opposite wall. I was the first to seo 1t and to diaw Harry's at- tention toit. He was the other sido of the room, but he instantly sdvanced toward it. Suddenly he stopped, and once more I eaw that gioping motion of his band. “ How very odd! There can’t be a door here,” said be. For the first timo Gwen's composure left her. Sho sprang to his side ; she clasped hus arm. « A door, Harry! Not a door—O, say it was not a door!" . She was pale and trembling. He quieted her in a moment. .There was nothing to fear, Le eaid. But aa she unclasped his arm and turned away, I heard her murmur, “no first time— the first time I 0, why did she leave him then, and why did sho’ turn sway? Hs stepped forward to the + I had poiuted ont. ““Yes,"” eaid bie, * this is plainly the way out.” What was that noise? What next me: our horrified gaze ? There was a creakiog and crush- ing of plauks giving way; the spot on which he stood fniled beoeath bim. He clutched wildly round with his hands. We sprang forward to save him. Wo tonched bim ; we almost grasped him. He slipped from our hold. For one moment wo Tooked on his agoized face, a4, with one cry. ho fell—gone from our sight forever. And tho boards rose, and fitted into their places with & snap, and all was frm and solid a3 before. r one moment I believe I was mad—so sud- den and so awful was the shock. I tore wmildly at the flooring with my bare hands, and called Joudly on his name—called to him to retarn. & was Gwen who brought me to myself—Gwel, Harry's wife, mav, his widow. Sho drew me back, ber face_distortod with harror, yet hor genses alers and under command. Her voice w8 hoarso and gr.. iog- 3 . “Tha room below—the room where you eax the fire; ho has only fallen through. Come; be uick ! 1 % 1 Bhe would believe it, she must believe it. She drew me cn ; it was s Tay of hope. Wo rushed ‘across the lobby and down the atairs. Five mio- Ttes befors ho had been with us oo those yery steps; where was he pow? The room below, all the rooms near tho passages, 3il were empty, The fatal thickness of those walls, what might thev mot conceat? Wecalled him ; thero wasno reply: and as we stood and listened, the rich Hond ot sunshine fell on our white faces, and we heard the joyoms songof the birds and the voices of tho gardeners ontide. after this scarch I will have the : walls,” exclaimed Gwen. *“Tho tools! Fatc tho toola! T will go back and. stay wich him (i1 you come.” *t Stay with him!” Never again, Gwan ; never again. It comforted her _to say that, snd ske went bask to the room. ' I fetched not only the tools, but the men, and in a fow minntes a ghast- ly socret was 1aid bare. 4Tt is hollow, sir,” said the man who dealtthe first stroko. 1t was hollow. A hole abont six feet in cir- cumference descended—ah! how far? 1 bad to hold Gwen back with all mystrength, she leaned in 80 far, a8 ber voice shrieked down the fathom'ess aby¥s: * Harry! My H Shall T ever forget that cry? Did it reack: his ear? There was no snswer, no sound fros below. Then she raised herself up, and, wmi oue crv of despair, fell back nto o dead faisk Poor thiog! it was tho best thing that happen to her then. Wo carried her dor! and gave her over to Mrs, Ransloy's care, ap< 85 8000 231 had seat for & doctor, I rotg~od to the room. They were trying to fatiyd the abyass, and trying in vain. It scemed t-doecend to the very foupdstion of the buy)i0f. Lightshad beon lowered snd oxtinguired Dy the fonl alr; All hopo was of course af 40 _ead, and whoo : Afexdily, thoro was tha leagth the lights burmedi oo wwfal that atrong .-ned sick and fant. men who stood bY Lol hole ware, after s cor- tain oot jagg aud noven. Shatp stoncs, \eces of jrop.d00LS, Ecythes, and knives word e %l nith such a diabolical act, that e fang must have been foatfally man- i bor (o hie resched tho bottom. and sicken- inw m= 58 of 8 a foll were there. Nothinj 1% . ntter demolition of the building woul, bubie us to recover all that remainod of him “Bo half an hour before sicod among us in lifa and health. The demolition was ordorcd. The buildiog was to be razed to the ground. Gwen would bave bad the work continued night and day: sho boped, hopsd madly, loog after hope seem: impossible, But men must eat and sloep, aven though widows' hearts are wasting snd break- ing beneath the load of agony. And whea days grew into weoks, and Ltdo apparent progresa Wwas made, then, and not till then, did Gwen congent to leave the place. She went to her mother in Loudon. We hoped that her.child would arouse her from her grief and bring her back to Life, but it was not so. A strong nature in not always an elastic one; sbe had received 2 shock from which she had ot power to rally, Her beart was broken. - She meexly did- whal sho was told to do, and 1o more. Nover again was she seen voluntarily to open book, or to tako any kind of employmeut in her hand. She only satand waited the rummous, which came ere many weoks hiad passed, and then the weary :;:lirit was set freo. But Iam forestaliing my o T cannot tell what wo found when st last the work of demolition was completed. Gwen wag at rest beforo that, and, as I followed the re- mains of my best, my ouly fiiend from the cas- tlo (for he was taken to his fathac’s homs), T called to-mind with bitterucss oar first entranca L-rnl':\‘iu thosa walls destined to be so futal to us oth. 1 saw Gwen often during the weary interval before ber death. I wastho only person who could rouse ber, even for a moment, from Ler - lethargy. When sho had ceased to hope, sho only once alluded to the past. Some old papers hed been found n_the picture-gallery &0 often described, and, as they threw light on the mys- tery of tue haunied room, tho doctors Loped they might rouse her, For the momont she was roused—not to listen to the tale of black wick- edness nnfolded, but to give mo one warning, the chatgo rearding hor boy—my ward. She told me that the appearance of an imaginary door was an event of usual occurrence iu her family before o death. Her {ather snd all his brothers had secn it, but she added 1t had bzen scon three times in each iustance, and with in- tervals of yoacs between. ‘I felt littlo fear, for he onlysaw it once,” said she. It was the only time she spoke of Harry. 1did not undeceive her.—Belgravia. UNTO THE SUN. " any, Caloric potentate] Thy riso {a opportune— "A tentimental mammal claws his lyres e will, in haste, 8o bigh his adolescent croom, Nor stop for ecency or hire, Unchallenged Sun of myriad suns—arch-boes sbavel The warmth of thy fierce gaza this world upca. Doth even shame the fervor of the manly love 1 bear my motuer's only son. Thou art not versatile; yet this ‘Machine bath run. Since gassy times that I'll not try to spell, And thon hast proved to ail that thou canst be tha Box By simply doing one thing well, Thou Chairman of Committee on Celostial Light! ‘Compared with thee our rag lamps keem & mess; Een with our stock of " brass™ concoct we Zaught’ s bright— Werva not the recipe, T guess. e don't cut up such ehiaes, with oue poor earthh might, Or we a portion of thy disk would fx High in the fasts of our mosquito-breeding Kight To teach tho moon and stara somo tricks. nuxx“mux dund;hn]h cosat the sullen west, and orn An all-day wetness batcheth out, I ween, To dank this facile air, and epur each drowsy cors, “And make my trusty togs Seel mean Therefore T will no Jonger thrash my howling muze, Tta sweetest dogy'rels clutching groedily ; To limply lluger bere wouid my nice sense abuss— 1 steer mo homeward speedily ; For if a man don't quickly seck the inside dry When ontride dampness {s a certataty, Thexi should impassloned kick with kot repeat apgly, And telescope his vertebra. Jomx McGovamy, i ST Cishop England’s Liberality=-=A Ko« man Catholic’s Scrmon Icfore Protestant Congregations From the New York Sun, No Roman Catholic Bishop in this country hat ever commanded so great a degree of confidence among Protestants as the Jate Bishop England, of South Carolina. One canse of this contidouce was his great liberality in all poiuts where Le could make ressonsble conceseions to Protes- tonts, Whenover be was offered tho use of a Protestant church ‘o hold bis services in the largo district of his diocese, embracing all of South Carolina and a portion of Geargis, ho gladly accepted it. On one occszion ho was called on to do_daty for a Protestant pastor in a small villago in Georgia under the following circumstances: He Liad been obliged with the lonn of & Protestant churcn for tho purpose of delivering course of loctures upon the Catholic religion. On Saturday evening the regular pastor vsited him and asked of him the i favor tha: be would continue to occupy his pul- pit thonext day, saviog : **Ibavo been so en- wrossod with the Butject of your lectares daring tho week I bave forgotten to prepare my ser- mon.” I shiould bo bappy to oblige you.” said Bisbop Eugland, “'but you koow my Church principles will admit of 1o copartnerabip iv tho services of religion.” ‘That makesno differ- ence,” replied the Protestaut minister; *regu- Iato ‘everything to smt yourself. My flock de- sire it 80, and [ am williag.” Bishop. Englan not to be ontdone in_liberality, promiscd tha nothing should be eaid or dono to create dis- approbation in the cosgregation or offend the miaister. Tho noxt morning the novel spectacle was pre: seated of o Toman Catholic Bisbop, arrayed in his ordinary cpircopal vestare, walking up tho steps of a Protestaut pulpit. ITe began tha ser- vices by asking his congregation to siog a hymn alich Bo bad selected from their Lymn-bouk, but 1n common use also among Catholica. He then took his text from a Douay travalalion of tho Bible, and after offering such 3 prayer an all couid Joia in from 8 book of Catholic devotion, ho preached them a eound, practical disconrse, and dismissod them with a blessiog. The con- E:zgnian were last in wondor at the worship they %0 often heard deounced as idolatry. Iait aoy wonder that s man endowed with @uch ex- traprdiuary tactand judzment was eeveral Limes invited to presch beforetha Legislaturo of Sunth Carolina ? % An Exposure. Tord X—, determined s short tir.-ago to ugmask 8 certain well-known spiritual Professos aad his medium st a seance adverticed to bo held at sumo ball sitnated on Oxfordstrect, Lon- don. Accordingzly X— had constructed at Bryant & May's » match of bugs proportions 20d instantaneous brilliancy, and, armed with this, he proceeded with two frienda to pay his respects to the ** denizens of another world.” After the nsual preliminarios the room was sud- denly darkened, and, whilst the company beld each otcer by the hands, violina snd tambou- rinea woro heard to play in company with lees mausical sounds, the Professor and his medinm baving bee recurely fastened with ropea by one of tho audienco. At s given moment X— leb g0 his companion's_band, and lit lus malch, or, more propesly, torch, on a striker sxilfully fixed to the sole of his boot. A great flare! aud thero stood the Professor bard at work on the siolia, whilat the happy medium asasted the perform- anca by alrernate _accompapiments oo the tam- bouring with ber hand, and on the floor with & broomstick, Tae finale may be better imagined than described ; suflice it to eay that his lord« ship, on presenting himself at ths doorof a pimilar entertainment a Week afier wa3 refuscd “There must be a hiding-place in those | aamissior