The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 14, 1900, Page 15

HE SUNDAY CALL 15 fiesecret of Mortmere ~ How it was Revealed through hedding of Blood. by Neville Cain. >rovidence had designed a cure for me of tures of anv kind in that wing of the resting upon them and smoked far into g the door, threw this unreasonable state of mind, for I was castle from foundation to battlement. the night. a 1 ere long. like Macbeth, to “sup _Turing to ask Hubert. who was Now and again our discourse would fall % 1 of h—" but I will not anticipate. sketching near me one day, an explana- upon the great silent wall ne: s 5 = Count Torquil, Hubert'’s aged uncle, tion of this singularity of construction, I our left, which held shut up in its granite chair; n med me to Morimere and thanked perceived that he had been watching me bosom matters of such import [ n g 4 r coming. narrowly One night as we leaned over tt . There is so little here, for a large por- ‘Mon ami,” he replied “I would will- rail we saw far below a bent a . » 1 of the year, to egaver the life of a ingly give you the information you desire, ing figure, carrying someth I » - growing youth,” he said, “and, helas! my but I am quite as much In the dark as like a dish or other round envel state of health is not such as to make it yourself concerning the peculiarity in the ject, dicapvear into the doorw 3 possible to revive the anclent diversions ire to which vou allude. It has Jed to the staircase muni customary In our house.” source of much speculation to this wing of the bullding, and 3 roat w s hand He smiled feebly as he glanced along °1f since T came to live at Mortmere afterward we heard in the corridor outside n, as th s r and the line of gallants who still rufled it as my uncle’s neir, but I have never been my room the stealthy patter of siippered me ¢ g m, s g from dingy frames upon the wallg of the enlightened i ? S S p.- w 8 great dining-room “The people of a generation ago were Looking out,. I perceived Mere Jeanne- & r a * The Count, 1 learned, was an utfer re- still well nigh as superstitious as in the ton. with a lantern, on her way down shing s s cluse, and this was my onlv glimpse of middfe ace nd most of the great tpat’part of the corridor which A : him (but one) durlng my stay and only h ghostly legend at- yigh¢ anglcs with our wing and along th. falling had for courtesy's sake and his anxiety cable oddity, some o torione oo to see his nephew’s prospective guest igination, manifesting gpe ceemed disconcerted on being dis- - . and an American. He seemed prepos- alterations made from age cqvered and I withdrew hastily a5 - o A sessed and embraced me tionately ive own A et it s aier v sl nkd - » - - anu commended me to the goodne In the course of.time, growing morve .- tPeer B AL SOHN & o O eard her e Huoert and Dr. Longpr ned the confidence of old S PAPPRATES. SnT 28 tal Sy atesi] A e A - I feasted for weeks upon the melancholy Godefr he concierge or warder, as he e ¥ oo i £ Her: hubect . 2 grandeur of my surroundings. would have been called in clden times. tMré What had become. of her DARS g s A The Hubert at my side, the partner of From him I drew the reluctant story that LNOUSht it odd. too. e S - all his weird joys, was not the Hubert of in the portion of the castle thus walled off _ W hile we spoke a distant muffled < 2 % Parls school days, but a dream boy, and [ from the rest, and comprising an entire Penetrated to us, which distinctly « s was fain to put my. arm about him as we 1 dfed the tormer adored wife of ©Ur fell of halr to rise and stir. - 6 passed beneath the stone gargoyl Gertrude de la Quesnaye, . Que diable!” safd Hubert : grffned down upon him from turret an fter her death that part of the ‘?‘ ":' !;3‘3"21-“"\ ‘;";”hv " ""'r“‘ e p baicony d been cut off entirely from the &Iy breaking into a Smitn e 1 There was something threatening in the rest, the m being unnbls t bear gny S5E SGRS. Sxthw Sy wnddinly and mom A place and although I sight ever agaln . f what was assoclated ("_?:‘:4' :v\n(.l‘x:.m;:‘ s - myself, I was moved 16st bride. n along the passage: ¢ found pity for the sweet, sad people han this I could not learn: there footsteps were heard again ¢ o the castle, who for some indefin appeared to be nothine more. Neverthe- It must be old Jeanneton returr reason needed it, 1 divined curlosity burned to see the other I peered forth again shortly there ere was 8 T Down and g » I was soon to have my cions con- she ambled in the distant cc with lost conse s s k- 1 g allotfed to me. consist- an empty dish in her hand spel though the country outside was glori- nd sleeping-room, were Hubert's curlosity had long ago been re- When T still s h- I epent my time chiefly hing 1 wing of the castle, which I pressed. and mine was restraincd the ing the t tiff with terror treas of intuves al Jjueged looking at my window laws of decency. so this passed unex- ¢ " shed the venerable me ra was ed near the plained. with ) R mas it ext the corri- Hubert stayed Ic r u X - A : des of a vast co 1 found th: a evening with me, and wh m ed £ a gre extended on 1 could not sleep. thinki r I t ¥ pparent mal sound and P'stering wi I was dream i} " for t calthy tread but I hurry g s with There was t apart- dent, and a N w he other end of ears o we never got ra . e v arrow etone: balco on the subject of that nigh . . o 4 wondows opening on the . It was delictously creepy. off tr ne ¥ r 1 with grotesque heads i WIh Ehirt graht ‘wall o4& Norror . nd or garg, and ften ats aring s hir r At in the mild moonlight with cet spi - ¥ 3 - r s = 1 ¢ « ¢ Al eaglet Die, ¢ il's a's me ex oo 1 d Bef —omrpad i gres = . 2 E s crushec and ever to retura ahe a4 nothing but wee - “Months v ¥ t n a moat wa: wn ditch, spanneAd place of p ' porter's e moat, none g a 4 and my s r s promise of a the conditions srable for hap- eemed as if ™