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MILLED SEVILLE, GEORGIA, FeBRIARY 10, 1880.
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the i'uited States and
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. Irlilies:
BYT GENERAL J. B. HOOD,
Late Lieutenant-General Confederate
States Array, published fertile '
Hood Orphan Memorial Fund
General G. T. BEAUREGARD,
New Orleans, 1880.
The entire proceeds arising from the sale
of this work are devoted to The Hood Or
phan Memorial Fund, which is invested in
United States Registered Bonds for the
nurture, care, support and education of the
ten infants deprived of their parents last
summer at New Orleans, (the melancholy
incidents of which sad bereavement are
still fresh in tin* public mind.I
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PATTERSON PIANO
Footsteps on the Other Side.
A TH3ZE-STSHTG, SQL'AES G3A17D
Rosewood Piano
With Cover, Stool and Instruction Book.
$230.
BY MARGARET F.YTINGE.
Sitting in my humble doorway,
Gazing out into the night,
List’ning to the stormy tumult
With a kind of sad (lelight-
Wait I for the loved who comes not.
One whose step I long to hear;
One who, though he lingers from me,
Still is dearest of the dear. .
Hark ! he comes—now heart exultant
In thy joy forget to ehide;
Ah! 'tG but a stranger’s footstep
Gone bv on the other side!
PATTERSON PIANO
All the night seems filled with weeping,
Winds are wailing mournfully.
And the rain-tears blent together
Journey to the restless sea.
1 can fancy, sea, you murmur.
As they with your waters flow,
Like tin* griefs of single beings
Making up a nation's woe!
Sept. 23,1879.
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CRAND
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Branches, bid your guests be silent, *
Hush a moment, fretful rain,
Breeze, stop sighing—let me listen
Once more—God grantnot in vain;
To ray cheek the blood is springing
Like the blushes of a bride.
Joy !—al;is! again the footsteps
l’ass upon the other side.
Ah ! how many wait forever,
For the steps that never come;
Wait until the pitying angels
Bear them to a heavenly home.
Many in the still of midnight,
In tile streets have lain and died
While the sound of human footsteps
Readied them from the other side.
may know them.
PATTERSON ORGAN ISlS. ffi
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Address, JAMES T. PATTERSON.
P. O. Drawer 12, Bridgeport, Conn., U. S. A
Feb. 3. 1880. 29 18m.
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skies;
Paused, then leaped, where, God knows
only,
He ah me heard “Jesus” cried,
Aral the prayer, lost in the footsteps
Passing on the other side.
Ears, so old you have deceived me,
Heat t, such false alarms you beat.
I can scarcely dare to trust you.
Yet methinks that up the street
Sounds a step I know, now nearer,
Faster comes it, till at last,
Happy wife! his arms enfold me,
And my weary vigil’s past.
God, give all who wait an ending
To their watch, as sweet as mine;
God, send out of tears and storm-clouds
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God, bill drooping hearts be hopeful,
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Trusting that ere long the footsteps
Will not pass the other side!
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PATTERSON
T'-ree c t P.oeds, 5 Octaves,13 Stops. Di-
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PATTERSON PIANO
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-, • JA5IE8 T. PATTERSON.
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$50 to’$100 Saved in Purchasing the Best
Piano or Organ manufactured, from the
Music Saving Institution of the South.
G. O. ROBINSON A CO., 265 Broad Street,
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A Mi >XTH guaranteed. $12 a day
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Puhliaherof The Sex. New York Ci:y.
S. f. ©.
Attorney- At-Law,
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Jan. 28,1878.
28 ly.* *
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Unsurpassed Facilities and large Pur
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JtUL 27tlJ, 1880. 286m.
For three generations the direct heir to
the estate of Moear’s Tower has not suc
ceeded tc i 1 lie property. The last owner,
Squire Fairfax, was a hale, jovial fellow
and had three stalwart sons, yet none of
them lived to possess the place.
The eldest was killed when Clyde's army
reliuM-d Lucknow, the second fell a victim
to the jungle fever that haunts the moist
l ice-iieids of Central India, and tho young
est—it gives me a choking sensation in my
throat even now when 1 recall his fate.
The hero of the Playing Fields, stroke of
the eight-oar in the most closely contested
race that Oxford ever won, he was a favor
ite everywhere, and the pride of his home.
I can see him yet with his laughing brown
eyes, standing up against the crack left-
handed bowler, who came assured of an
easy victory for Stepton over the eleveD of
Stepton-in-the-Fens. There were somo of
us who thought when he carried his bat
that greater triumphs must bo in store for
that ready hand, that watchful eye and
cheery spirit.
A year later, when a pleasure-boat went
down in a squall, the only hope left us was
that he had not suffered long, for there
was a dark bruise on the pale forehead
when the body was washed ashore. His
father never recovered the blow, but died
soon after his buy, and thus it came to pass
that I, a distant cousin, found myself the
owner of Morcar’s Tower.
Morcar’s Tower was situated in one of
the flattest districts in England. In old
days, before cannon were in use, it must
have been a valuable stronghold, for it was
then surrounded by a reedy feu full of dan
gerous and unsuspected depths, and only
practised guides could lind tho narrow
paths that threaded through the grass and
rushes. Gradually, however, the fen-land
was reclaimed, though tiie drainage was
extremely difficult, and a canal, more slug
gish titan any I have seen elsewhere, was
cut across from the Ayder to the Deene.
The soil was.rich and paid well, and at last
a little town grew up known as Stepton-in-
the-Fens, to distinguish it from Stepton
proper, or, as it was sometimes called,
Stepton on-the-Wold. This wold was noth
ing but a rise of the land on the west of the
Tower, and would hardly have been re
marked in a less level country.
The tower itself was more properly a
keep, square and grim, built of dark red
stone that took a purplish hue when wet.
Round it was a deep moat that on three
sides had been Dustily and carelessly iilled
up. Yellow hawkweod and the straggling
ragged-robiu grew iJ profusion on the un
equal surface of the earth that had been
thrown loosely into it, and I wondered
greatly that my cousin should have allow
ed this disorderly fringe of wood to remain
round the iiouse. I remembered, however,
that when my cousin Frank had once pro
posed some alteration his father had re
plied. with unusual sharpness, that he did
not choose to meddle with the moat. On
tho fourth side the ditch was its original
depth, and a wooden bridge, with a high
fantastic railing, crossed it where the
drawbridge had formerly been. The walls
of the Tower were enormously thick and
tiie interior was consequently somewhat
sombre. There was plenty of heavy old-
fashioned furniture, hut there were few
modern elegancies in the house. In the
room Hint had been Harry’s there were two
new easy chairs, some engravings after
Landseer and some Dewters and cups, rel
ics of the foot races and sculling matches
of Ids Eton and Oxford days.
On tiie ground floor were tho drawing
and dining rooms, with two smaller apart-
meuts; the bedrooms were upstairs, and
the servants—I had but three—lived in
some newer offices quite at the hack.
I myself chose to inhabit a curious tur
ret that projected from one corner of the
Tower, partly because it was light and
cheerful, partly because I had used it when
visiting my cousin#in our boyhood. The
round shoulder of the wold cut us off early
from the evening sun, and front the turret
windows I could watch the light being
stolen from our Fens by the advancing
shadows of the lir-clad rising ground.
One night, when I had been about a fort
night at the Tower, I sat up rather later
than usual at my studies. A new vista
was opening before me, and I seemed to
be on the point of reaching over tiiat inde
finable barrier that separates us from the
other world in witich spirit is tho known
realty—a world whose laws must solue
day yield themselves up to our mastery.
I raised my head and drew in a long breath
of tho night ait that blew in at the open
casement. While sitting thus, pursuingan
argument iu ray own mind, the sound of a
stealthy footstep on the stair caught my
ear ami abruptly broko the chain of my
thoughts.
Irritated at this disturbance, I resolved
to f<n hid the servants coming up-stairs so
late and then tried to resume ray reading.
But the words on the page conveyed no
meaning to my mind and I found myself
dwelling, instead, on that unwonted sound.
Suddenly it flashed upon mo—I had not
heard tho step go away.
-wily a very
My door faced the st^ated*t
small landing intervened. I looked at my
: watcii; it was half-past one.
I Obviously none of the household had any
i business up-stairs at that hour— had I
; heard the step of a burglar who was even
now outside my door? I was unarmed and
beyond reach of help, for the bell in my
room communicated with an empty part of
the Tower and I had not yet given orders
for its alteration. Hastily and nervously I
locked ntv door and listened long for a
retiring footstep, but not a sound catne, and
I fell asledD at last without undressing.
Next day I felt somewhat ashamed of the
nervousness that had seized tne, for though
I do not boast ot any special amount of ani
mal courage, I had never before experi
enced such uneasiness. I concluded that
my nervous system must be unstrung, and
resolved to take more exercise titan I had
done of late.
I asked the butler casually if he had been
upstairs late last night. He was an elder
ly man anti had spent many years in my
cousin’s service, and I thought there was
something strange in his look and tone as
he replied, “No, sir; none of «* were up
stairs.”
A confused remembrance of a giiost story
came into my mind, told long ago by a
chance guest, and summarily cut short by
the old squire. Perhaps the Tower was
haunted and a ghost was part of my inher
itance. I hesitated to inquire lest I should
put the idea into the heads of the servants;
but as I had little faith in the supernatur
al origin of so-called ghostly disturbances
I took sundry precautions against impos
ture. I had once been a fair shot, so I open
ed tt long untouched box and got out a pis
tol that had lain there for two years. This
I cleaned and put away in my room. I
then ordered that candles should be placed
there in addition to my usual lam]), and de
sired that the bell should beat once alter
ed.
When evening came I sat down to nty
work and read with quite my usual atten
tion, but I could not recall the keen percep
tion of tho previous night.
About 1 o’clock I felt my mind wander
ing involuntarily from my book, although
I had not been aware of tho lateness of the
hour until 1 looked at ray watch; a quarter
of an hour later I heard a faint sound. I
listened anxiously; it was the same step
as before, coming slowly up-stairs, tiie
stop of one who walks wearily—the step
ol a woman, for I distinctly heard the rus
tle of a dress. I quietly placed the lamp so
that the light would stream right into the
passage, cocked my pistol, and as the foot
steps reached the door I threw it open.
There was no one there.
A sense of horror seized me, and I think
at that moment I would rather have met
any visible foe than have stood face to face,
as it were, with an empty sound.
Next morning Bond lingered unnecessa
rily in removing the breakfast things, and
after glancing two or three times at me as
I sat idly by the window, lie spoke.
“Mr. Fairfax-excuse me, sir—but you
don’t look *vcll this morning.”
‘*1 don’t feel very well, Bond,” I replied.
“Been disturbed at night, perhaps, sir,”
said the old man pointedly.
“What do you mean? Why should I be
disturbed at night?”
“Because you’re tiie owner of Morcar’s
Tower, sir.”
“Then there is a story that I don’t know!”
I exclaimed. “Go and finish your work,
Bond, so as not to let the women remark
anything, and then come and tell nte about
it.”
When he returned Bond gave me a gar
bled version of the tale I shall presently
relate in the words of one immediately con
cerned; but lie added that since the com
mission of the crime that gave Morcar’s
Tower its evil name it had been haunted
by mysterious footsteps. No ghost had
ever been seen, but those steps continually
passed to the door of the room occupied by
the owner and there died away. My cou
sin, stout-hearted, practical man as he was,
had tried every room in the Towet without
escaping from this terrible guardian; and
Bond thought the nervousness caused by
the nightly visitation had helped to bring
about Mrs. Fairfax's sudden death.
Had he been a richer man the squire
would have abandoned the Tower, but he
could ill afford to do so and in time became
accustomed to the ghost.
“Did none of iny cousins ever hear it?” I
inquired.
“Yes, sir, they did. Mr. James and Mr.
Frank each heard it before they' left home
for the last time. Mr. Frank told tne him
self, sir, and said he thought it might he a
sign he was never coming back.”
“And Harry—?”
“Master Harry was so much younger I
dont’t think he rightly knew the story. Mr.
Fairfax made the other young gentleman
and mo promise never to tell it t/> any one;
and Muster Harry wasn’t one to think of
tilings of the sort.”
“How did the others lind it out?”
“Same way as I did, sir—by master
changing liis room so often. They got it
out of Mrs. Fairfax, poor lady, at last.”
“Well, Bond, I suppose I can depend on
you to help me if I try to find out anything
about tiie ghost.”
“Yes, sir; but I’d advise you to leave It
alone, if I might be so bold.”
“My good fellow, I can’t go on living
here without trying to understand this af
fair. If there is a ghost there must be some
reason for bis or her coining, and if I could
’discover the reason it might put a stop to
these visits.” .
“Well, sir, there’s no denying that would
be a good thing; but I doubt you’ll find it
beyond you to manage.”
“At least I’ll try. Bond,” said I as lie left
the room.
That night I placed lamps on the stairs
and in the passage that led to them, and
made Bond sit up there, that he might no
tice where the steps came from. I myself
sat opposite the open door of my room
with my eyes fixed on the staircase. At
1.15 Bond called out, as agreed on. “It’s
coming, sir!” and tt minute later I distin
guished the lirst foot tails. Slowly and
steadily tln*y came up stairs, so that I
could count the number of steps; they
crossed the landing, and the last one plant
ed itself on the threshold of my room; then
there was perfect silence.
I shuddered and called Bohd, who came
up white and trembling.
“Sir, the steps walkedhy me wltere I sat;
I watched the lamp as you told me, but I
saw nothing pass between me and it. I
don’t know where they began; they seem
ed to start at the end of the passage. Oh,
j sir, don’t meddle with them, or you’ll come
| to harm!”
“I hope h >(, Bond,”I replied. “I am sat-
j islied that there is no trick, and I must
! think what is to be done next. Go to bed
now, for I suppose we shall hear no more
to-night.”
“No more, sir, the Lord he praisetd! It
only comes'once in a night; if it were of-
tener, I don’t think anybody could stand
it.”
Tiie old man evidentl> did not like the
notion! of a closer .acquaintance with the
ghost, but now that I knew exactly what
happened my own nerves were steady. I
lelt that here was an opportunity of testing
some of the theories in which I was most
deeply interested, and I resolved that no
effort of mine should be wanting to prov^
them true or false. I believed in the pow
er, possessed by a few strong wills, ot in-
flueneing others at adistnnee; and my own
studies had accustomed me to concentrate
ray thoughts -the lirst step towards exer
cising such a [mwer if, as I hoped, it was
latent in me. 1 had never heard of any at
tempt, to rout rol a spirit by sueli means,
buttlie idea did not appear to me imprac
ticable. Where so little is known ex|a't*t-
ments are of use, even though their results
tie only negative. If there* is a spirit—
thus I argued witli myself—that wishes to
communicate with the owner ol this Tower,
! surely a reciprocal wish on his part might
render the process easier.
Again, the simplest facts of mesmerism
. show that one will can control another;
i surely a spirit, freed from human gross-
1 ness, should lie sensitively alive to every
influence exerted over it. It only remains
j to be proved whether I can keep cool and
i steady if I succeed so fat* as to obtain obe-
i dience from the spirit.
I Having settled my plan of action, I be-
; gan by taking a long and brisk walk in the
■ early morning. Before dinner I confined
my reading to historical works, but in tiie
■ the eta'll ing I perused carefully a volume
in which I had found much curious and use
ful information on mesmerism. Soon after
midnight I seated myself opposite my
open door, having previously placed the
lamps so as to completely light up the
space before me.
Two rather ludicrous difficulties then
struck me. In the first place I did not
know the sex of my unseen visitor. Bond’s
story would have led me to suppose that
a man would haunt the Tower, but there
was nothing masculine in the gentle foot
fall or the sound of tiie trailing robe.
Secondly, I knew that I must keep one
idea steadily before me, yet I could hardly
go on repeating the same formula, and I
could not think without words. This diffi
culty, however, was a very elementary
one and would be easily overcome by prac
tice. I fixed my eyes on the doorway,
where the eyes of a iiguro of average
height .would be, and soon succeeded in
making myself think an almost uninter
rupted “Come!”
Unfortunately the night was boisterous
and stormy; tho wind screamed past the
casement and swept on, as if in a hideous
fugue, across the gloomy fens; but as my
senses grew more and more koen, I did not
doubt but that I could distinguish tho fa
miliar footsteps even through all this
storin-niusie.
After a while the blood moved faster in
my veins, my eyes were unnaturally fixed
and my breathing was coi.sti ained and
rapid, as though every muscle was stiffen
ed—a sensation quite unlike the deep, full
inspirations of severe physical exertion.
I should not have realized how great was
the tension of my will had not a gust of
wind madeagatein the garden bang sud
denly, when the quiver with which tuy
nerves responded to the sound betrayed to
what a pitch I was excited.
It was close on the hour for the ghost’s
visit. I passed my hand across my lore-
head and eyes, and at the same instant, dis
tinct through the wailing of the wind I
heard the distant footfall. I grasped the
arms of my chair and half rose in the in
tensity of my wish; but when the steps
reached the top of tho stairs something
see nidi to give way in my brain, tiie room
and lights swum before my eyes; but as I
sprang up, with my hands to my temples,
I saw, or fancied I saw, against the bright
background, a shadowy outline of a figure.
It was an instantaneous impression and
I sank back as helpless and weak as a child,
all power of will entirely gone.
An hour passed before I could shake off
my lassitude sufficiently to go to bed;
but I slept soundly and to my great satis
faction found that instead of being fa
tigued I was more active titan usual on the
following day.
To Bond’s inquiries I merely replied that
I was carrying out a plan which I hoped
would succeed in time, but that 1 could not
give him the details.
It is unnecessary to describe the experi
ments of each succeeding night. I soon
found.that the power of concentrating my
will increased with every effort. On three
occasions I saw the same shadowy outline,
but on each a chance sound disturbed me
or irresistible fatigue deprived me of
strength just when I most needed it. At
length I resolved to take one night’s unin-
terrupt(>d rest and to begin my next at
tempt only a few minutes before one, so as
to have more power in reserve when the
critical moment should arrive. I was glad
to find that I attained almost immediately
the required state of concentrated volition,
but I endeavored to make my condition
more natural than it had ever yet been. I
gazed more quietly and observantly at tho
spot where I hoped the spirit might ap
pear and made mesmeric passes as if be
fore a figure facing me.
As I o'clock struck nty senses grew more
alert; never before had I felt myselt pos
sessed of such subdued and controlled
strength; even my breathing became deep
and regular.
I could not account to myself for theso
novel sensations, but I was filled with a
buoyant delight which was almost ecstasy.
My hands, as I continued my passes, seem
ed to feel an opposing force, as though I
were drawing a weight towards me. There
was none of the former heat and excite
ment, but a genial warmth pervaded every
limb.
I knew I had power over the spirit if I
could but keep ntyself steady.
At last it was dose on the quarter when
I heard the first step in the passage. I
stretched out my hands in motionless com
mand and e.vpectation. As the steps reach
ed the turn of the stairs the outline became
visible once more; it grew distinct, came
nearer, and pausing at the doorway seem
ed to tremble and gathered itself into the
form of a woman in a dinging robe, who
bent towards me with a look that 1 shall
never forget.
She was very young, and the misery on
her face might have • made the hardest
heart pitiful. In her eyes was that abiding
look of horror that sometimes remains af
ter a great mental shock—a look almost
impossible to describe, but which conveys
its meaning instantaneously. Her mobile
lips were slightly parted anil her small
hands tightly clenched at her sides. Al
though every feature was distinguishable,
there was no semblance of humanity about
her. She was a pale, shadowy figure, and
the outline or her head and dress remained
tremulous, as though ready to melt again
into air.
As she gazed earnestly at me, I fdt that
she could communicate her thoughts to a
certain extent, and read mine, in this mys
terious spirit-contact. I did not speak, but
I thought the words, “Poor soul, I will aid
you in anything you wish !” A faint smile
quivered over her face, and she bowed her
head and beckoned mo with one hand. Tak
ing up a small lamp I followed, while she
passed down stairs. Her movements was
exquisite in its floating grace, and I re
marked that her steps were no longer au
dible ; tho sound of them was not needed
now to plead for her. ,
She led me along the passage to a deep
windojv overlooking the moat. Here she
paused and pointed to a panel iu the oak
wainscoting. I could see nothing peculiar,
and glanced towards the spirit for further
explanation. Again* and again she pointed
imperiously to the same spot. I tried to
s)>cak, but my voice refused to come, so I
thought the question I wished to ask:
- “Am I to search here for something?”
Her smile answered me, and she then
signed to me to open the window and come
out. Pl.ioing my lamp on the floor so as to
l>e out of the draught, I got overtheiow sill
and stood at tho edge of the inoat. The
spirit floated a yard ot* two further, and
pointing down to the ground wrung her
hands piteously.
“Did some one die there?” I asked in a
whisper, for 1 felt that my power was wait
ing. aud it was no longer difficult to speak.
The pale hands pointed to the breast of the
figure, which wasalready fading, as though
iter desire was uccomplisheiL
“Tell me,” 1 cried, Hinging myself down
; Delore her, “if [search the panel and this
i spot, will you Ini u< rest?”
She bent towards me once more with a
smile of intense peaee on iter face and mel
ted out of my sight.
Miiielher 1 fainted or whether I Ml into
liibdeep sudden sleep that sometimes fol
lows mesmeric exertion I c in not tell, hut
when I catne to myself day was breaking
and my lamp was burnt out below the open
window.
After breakfast I gave Bond an account
of my adventure and could easily see that
tiie good old man thought my brttin was af
fected.
“You will help me to search the Dane!,
Bond, and that will prove whether my
stery is true or only a dream," said I.
To the window we accordingly went and
Bond inquired whether he was to break the
wainscot.
“Certainly not,” I replied; “if there is a
hiding-place here there is some way of
opening it, which I shall try to find before
I allow the wood to be broken.”
Inch by inch I examined thd wood and
compared the mouldings carefully with
those cn the opposite side. My attendant’s
incredulity was so manifest that I should
greatly have preferred to prosecute tho
search alone, but by doing so I should have
lost tne testimony of an additional eye-wit
ness to the discovery I felt confident of
making. After a long and patient scrutiny
I found in the lower corner of the panel an
inch or so of moulding that fitted into the
rest. Another quarter of an hour passed ere
by a chance movement I gave it the turn
required to loosen it. When it came out
and showed a spring concealed below it nty
excitement was very great, and Bond him
self began to share the feeling and hurried
off for oil with which tb clean the rusty
metal. We soon discovered the secret of
the bolt and a portion of the panel slid hack
below tho moulding, revealing a small
recess iu which lay a roll of manuscript tied
with a black ribbon. Dust and damp had
made the writing difficult to decipher, but
when the sad history lay spread before me
I decided to give it to tho world, along with
an account of my mesmeric experiment. I
have modernized the spelling and supplied
a few obvious words that were either blot
ted or illegible in the original. The date
was eaten away, but from family papers I
know that it must have been August, 1778.
The manuscript ran as follows:
“I am going to write down what has hap
pened. It may bo tiiat no one will ever
read what I write but should this paper fail
into the hands of any pitiful persons, sure
ly they will grieve for us.
“Mr. Fairfax is a bad man. Heaven for
give ino if I ought not to think him so! but
I must needs say it here. My father says
he is not worse than his neighbors, and
that it is the habit of most gentlemen to
drink and swear in his fashion. If it be so,
it Is an ill thing for women that have to
bear therewith. My father is a poor curate
in Stepton. He has as good blood in his
veins as Mr. Fairfax himself; but then he
is very poor, as I have said. My mother
and Mrs. Fairfax were friends, aud when
Mrs. Fairfax died my mother took charge
of the little baby she left, along with me.
That baby was tuy Harry—Harry Fairfax
of this Tower of Morcar’s. He and I learnt
our first lessons together from my mother,
and when we grew older my father taught
us both. Old Mr. Fairfax took but small
notice of his son. He was usually hunting
or quareeling with some neighbor or having
drinking-bouts at the Tower. I will say it
again—he is a bad man. I feared him
much, he looked so big on his black horse,
and he had a rough voice. I remember how
Harry aud I were gathering rushes to plait
one day when he rode by on the narrow path
that goes down to the white inn. Tho wil
lows and rushes were high but the black
horse so much taller that we could not
hide, as wesougt to do. Mr. Fairfax called
out with a strange oath that sounded loud
and terrible and jeered at Harry for play
ing with the parson’s brat. Then he rode on,
and Harry was in a great passion the like
of which I had not seen before. When I
was fourteen my mother died and thereaft
er I had to take charge of our house. Har
ry always came for teaching from my fath
er; but he looked older than I did, for I
had no money to buy myself new clothes
and was forced to continue in childish ,
frocks when I might; have worn gowns.
At last an old and good friend of my fath
er’s sent money wherewith to provide nte
with sundry needful things, and I remem
ber that I was vexed because when he saw
me in my new attire Harry did not kiss
me as was his wont. He loved books great
ly, as did my father, and he hated wine
and oaths and all the evil doingat tiie Tow
er. Mr, Fairfax was angry and called him
a clerk, but he did not interfere with
him.
And by and by he loved something more
than his books and I could not believe tiiat
it was so. But it was true, and no crea
tures were happier than wo when we sat
among the osiers and talked of what we
would do by and by. Father was sorely
troubled when Harry told him, but he was
always reading and had not time to think
much of us. Besides he loved Harry as his
son and all the more because he would not
join in his father’s wicked ways. We were
just twenty when Mr. Fairfax bade his son
marry a young gentlewoman, whose father
would dower her with certain lands that
adjoined those of tho Tower. When Harry
refused, his father’s anger was very terri
ble, but as ho gave no reason for his refusal
Mr. Fairfax let him go, thinking to per
suade him in time and with softer words.
He however made speed to our house and
demanded that my father should marry us
privately. This he would not hear of at
first though Harry urged it saying it would
be his safety—that Mr. Fairfax had even
said the damsel’s brother should call him
out did he slight her.
“He spoke so oarnesly that at last father
consented to make the needful arrange
ments and wo were satisfied. Alas! while
he was absent some rumor had come to
Mr. Fairfax’s ear and when Harry returned
homo ho was made a prisoner in his room
and only allowed to isSue from it for his
meals. Mr, Fairfax thought to tame him
but he knew not that there was a device
whereby he might be baffled. In bygone
days when Harry was fain to escape from
noisy guests he would slip out at the pas
sage window; or if the brawlers were too
near the stairs for him to pass he would
let himself down by a rope cunningly made
fast to an iron bar that was across his
own window. A thin and narrow plank
was concealed below the grass at the edge
of the moat, being held by rope loops to two
pegs knocked into the bank. Once across
the ditch he was free, for the gentlemen
were too busy within to espy him. Now,
however, his father was always on the
watch fearing lest he should escape. We
should have been in sere straits had we not
had one friend among the servants—old
Betty—who had seen Harry born. She
sped away to me with a message bidding
me to come at dusk a~d Harry would meet
me In the willow thicket across the moat;
further than that he dared not venture.
“Was I wrong togo? I thought not; nay,
I think still that I was right Since the
night that Harry put his signet-ring upon
my finger I have belonged to him. How,
then, could I dispute his will? Moreover,
ho was in trouble, and I could not refuse
to go to him in his need. Therefore I
wenL
“Wiieo it was growing late, so that it be
hooved me to return, he led me to the edge
of the thicket aud kissed me, and that was
our very last kiss on earth, yet I knew it
not. 1 would I had known that I might have
stayed to perish with my love.
I hurried along the darkening path, but
before I had gone far I heard an angry
voice tiiat seemed to be that of Mr. Fair
fax. I feared greatly for Harry, but I dar
ed not turn back lest I should be seeu and
cause worse trouble, since it might well be
that Mr. Fairfax was only speaning to
some groom or laborer. All night I
could not sleep for terror, and next day
news was brought to my fattier that Har
ry had disappeared.
“Tim country was searched for him, but
1 knew he was dead, fer had he been alive
he would hate found means to relieve my
anxiety.
“Mr. Fairfax shut himself up and drank
hard, and after a few days he desired that
the moat should be filled up.
“The work was begun, and that night I
knew the reason.
Again old Betty came to tne, white-fae-
’’•l and aged by many years. She told me
the horrible thing tiiat has never since
been out of tuy thoughts. I see before me
day and night the moat, the darkening
patii and my Harry as he stepped off the
plank and saw his father standing before
hint. Old Betty could not tell me what had
passed, but Mr. Fairfax had seen me, for
she heard my name.
“After many furious word9, Harry said
clearly, ‘I never will give her up!' Then-
then—that cruel man struck him hard on
the temples with the handle of his heavy
hunting-whip. Harry fell back into the
moat and he never rose again. Mr. Fair
fax knelt at the edge and called him hoarse
ly, and when no answer came he rushed in
to the house.
“Betty was too terrified to say next day
what site had seen, and I—can I give up
Harry’s father to punishment?—I who
have been the cause of my husband’s
death.
Tin' writing here became unsteady and
indistinct, as though the poor girl’s mind
had begun to wander. It is legible on the
next leaf.
“People look at me strangely; they
thought I did not hear to-day when somo
one said I was mad. Ain 1 mad? No! I
am sure I am not; my brain is quite clear,
clearer than ever, and each thought is as
bright as if it were written in flanm. I
know what I am going to do. The moat
is pot half full yet, hut in a few more days
there will lie no room iu it. I must get
Betty to hide this paper for tne in Harry’s
panel cupboard: she taught him and me
the trick of it long ago. I will tell her why
I want it hidden to-night; oh, no, she
might be afraid if she knew, and I must
be quite alone too. Mr. Fairfax is drink
ing—always drinking. I am going to puu-
ish luin; he shall have two deaths on his
soul. two. God will never forgive him as
much as that.
“I shall be safe with Harry; il anybody
finds this they need not be afraid for me. I
will fasten a stone over my heart that the
water in the moat may hold me down tight
fill I find him.
“I will si^n my own name to this—
my name, that no one can rob me of
now.
“Priscilla Fairfax.''
I am determined, after reading this sor
rowful tale, to have the moat carefully
searched at the spot indicated by the spir
it. That there might be no lack of witness
es I invited both the doctor and curate of
Steptone to be present After reading tho
manuscript they were to the full as anxious
as I for the further corroboration of Its
story. We knew that the Fairfax mentioned
in it had died suddenly of delirium tremens
and probably tho work of filling in the
moat was then discontinued, fer as I have
already remarked, it was of its original
depth on one side of the house. As the
workman approached the bottom they dug
slowly and carefully. Complete success re
warded our efforts, for precisely where the
ghosts’s finger had pointed we found the
decayed and broken bones of a woman.
The doctor gathered them up with his
own hands, and in doing so turned over
some of the earth and espied, sunk in what
had been soft mud, a heavy signet-ring
bearing the Fairfax crest. Encouraged by
our discoveries, I then gave orders for the
whole of the moat to be cleared, in the
hope that wo might find the remains of
the poor youth who was so cruelly mur
dered.
We inferred from tho MS. that his room
must have been at one of the corners far
thest removed from the hall, and our con
jecture proved true. We found some bones,
singularly perfect considering their age,
and two, or three metal coal-buttons. The
latter I have placed with the ring and man
uscript in a cabinet. To the bones we gave
a decent burial, depositing them all in the
same grave. Since that day no midnight
footsteps have approached my chamber;
and I trust that the uneasy spirit has found
rest through the discovery ot her fate, and
that nothing more will be seen or heard of
the ghost of Moi car’s Tower.
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Talmagc Compliments the Methodists.
In his last Sunday’s harangue at the
Brooklyn Tube made Dr. J altnage, alter
narrating the terrible ordeal of persecution
the Methodist denomination liad under
gone, asks:
What permanent damage did intolerance
do the Methodist Church? The vast ma
jority of the pulpits of Great Britain were
shut against her ministers, the very name
of the church given in derision. In the New
York Astor Library there are 706 books and
pamphlets against Methodism. The intol
erance lias resulted in making that the
largest denomination, the largest sect of
Christians iu the country. In all places of
civil as well as religious trust
SHE HAS HER MAN.
The present Mayor of our city, a Metho
dist, the past Mayor a Methodist, Gover
nor Colquitt, of Georgia, a Methodist, the
Secretary of the United States navy a
Methodist, the President of .the United
States a Methodist, and some say the next
President will he a Methodist. Intolerance
never put down anything. Indeed, men and
institutions succeed generally in propor
tion as they are persecuted. Bettor attend
to your business and preach the Gospel.
Let Satan attend to persecution.
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