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I paused for moment on the store seat where Laura and I had
AND IS
Ancient Script Shows Many Parallels.
- WOMEN - WHO PAINTED
London.
than did Palmer's girl, so, discussing how such an illusion could have been possible, and deducing from this ex- watched the fading landscape. Ther perience large generalities concerning, I noticed that the door of the church Chostly apparitions, we walked up to was open, and I blamed myself for up the garden path, that bright light our cottage. We saw, as we walked having left it unlatched the other streamed out of the front door, and night. We were the only peop, ex-)
who presently saw that the parlour door lever cared to come to the
Four hundred years ago London Had the gone out? cept on Sundays, and I was vered to as open, too. think that through
Come in," I said, and Dr. Kelly girl did "paint," London's poor slept our carelessness
eas followed me into the parlour. the damp aufus and injuring the all ablaze with
It was on the Embankment, and London'a chance
candles, getting in
not only the old fabric. I went in an wax ones, but at least a dozen gut shopkeepers, in some cases, did "pro- strange, perhaps, that I should have rin
tering, glaring tallow dips, atuck in fiteer." vases and ornaments gone half-way up the aisle before I
in unlikely remembered with a sudden chill, fol- places, Light, I knew, was Laura' These are some of the things lowed by as sudden a rush of self- remedy for nervousness. Poor contempt that this was the very day
child! Why
had I felt her? Bruts that I was.
shewn by two hitherto unknown We glanced round the room, and at tracts by one William Samuel, print- and hour when, according to tradition, arst we did not see her. the "shapes drawed out man-size In
The window was open, and the draught set all the began to walk.
ed in 1548-50, which are among the Candles
Baring on way Her chair empty and her handkerchief and acquisitions just added to the Bri- which I was ashamed, I could not do book lay on the floor. I turned to the fish Museum's collections. otherwise than walk up towards the window, I saw her. Oh, my child, my
window. There, in the recess of the "Repent ye citizyns of London" is altar, just to at the figures tas
I said to
really what Ij that I did not believe the |that
legend, and,
**Having thus remembered the legend, S
wanted was to assure myself, firatach for mat
had she gone to that window to the refrain which runs through the And what had some many stanzas of quaint and often oom behind her? To what into the secondly, that it was not true. To what had she turned with that look in bewailing some aspects of London had come into the room behind her witty rhyming which Samuel wrote rother glad that I had come. thought now I could tell Mrs. Dorman of frantic fear and horror? Oh, my how vain her fancies were, and how Bttle
peacefully the marble figures slept an whole, had she though that it was life in those days.
my
through the
With her rouge, her powder, and ghastly bour. With my meet what she heard, and turned to hands in my pockets passed up the in the window, and her body lay half
She had tallen back across a table her lipsticks, Miss London of 1933 aise. In the grey dim light the cast on it and half on the window-seat, may have her critics, but nothing so ern end of the church looked larger and than usual, and the arches above the and her head hang down over the table |
nearl
choked me,
un.
her
attacks
two tombs looked larger too. The the brown hair loosened and fallen to cutting has been said of her as the moon came out and showed me the the carpet. Her lips were drawn things which Samuel wrote about I stopped short, my heart back, and her eyes wide, wide, open. Miss (or Madam) London of 1533 reason. gave a leap that
What had they seen last! and then sank sickeningly.
The doctor moved towards her, but (or there abouts). He thought that The "bodies drawed out man-size" pushed him aside and sprang to her; carved idols were never more paint- cere pone, and their marble slabs lay caught her in my arms and cried:
"It's alt wide and bare in the vague moonlight
ed than some women in London. Laura! I've got that slanted through the east win-Shanto my arms in a heap, for the Cittle of London-contains One of the tracts-the "Warning! dow.
fell Were they really gone,
clasped her
her and kissed her, and called I or was mad?
on religious and secular by all
all her. pet names, but I think. Clenching my nerves, I stop I knew all the time that she was dead. abuses. It mentions by name two 17,000 29th July Bombay, Marseilles & London.
ned and passed my hand over the Her hands were tightly clenched. 17.000 12th Aug. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, smooth slabs, and felt their fat
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the things away? Was it some vile When I was quite sure that she was burned at Smithfield in 1546, and 17,000 26th Aug.seilles &
& London
dead, and that nothing mattered at 9th Sept. Bombay, 31arseilles, Havre, London practical joke?
I would make sure, all any more, I let him open her hand Richard Hunne, a Merchant Tallor anyway. In an instant I had made a
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And then horror seized me, 'burg, Ram, Antwerp & Hull horror indefinable and indescribable is due at Kobe on June 21, she will his Attack on those in office:--
which leaves Shanghai on June 19, of the rich and powerful. Hence an overwhelming certainty of supreme leave Kobe on and accomplished calamity.
the same afternoon I fung for Yokohama, from there, on June down the torch and tore along the aisle and out through the porch, bit. 23 she departs for Vancouver via
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ed to be in my pocket, and, lighting It was a grey marble finger. it, held it high above my head. yellow glare illumined the dark arches and those slabs. The figures were was alone in the church:
gone.
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I leaped the churchyard wall which leaves Yokohama on June 18, fields, led by the light from our win-and will leave for Manils on the and took the straight cut across the is due at Hong Kong on June 26, dows. Just as I got over the first same evening. ̈
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a dark figure seemed to apring aut of the ground. Mad still with that certainty of misfortune, T made for the thing that stood in my path, shouting, "Get out of the way, can't you!! you!"
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But my push met with a more vigorous resistance than I had expect 18th instant and is expected here they sayncted. ed. My arms were caught just above on the morning of 21st instant at
the elbow and held as in a vice, and daylight. the raw-boned Irish doctor actually
shook me.
"Let me go, you fool," I gasped. "The marble figures have gone from the church; I tell you they've gone."
He broke
into a ringing laugh. "I'l have to give ye a draught to-morrow, I see. Ye've bin smoking too marh and listening. to old wive talos."
T tell you, I've seen the bare slabs.” "Well, come back with me,
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was a mental shower-bath,
then, I sald sullenly:
"Come on, then
perhaps 'you're right
He still held my arm tightly. We got over the stife - and back church. All was still as death.
to the The
place smelt very damp and earthly
We walked up the aisle. I am Tio! ashamed to confess that I shut my eyes: I knew the figures would not be there.
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By Kelly's ex- piring vests 1.saw two shapes lying
opened my eyes.
"in their marble on their slabs, 1 drew a deep breath.
awfully indebted to you" 1 said. It must have been some trick of light, or I have been working rather hard, perhaps that's it, I was quite convinced they were gone."
rather grimly; "ye'll have to be carn- “I'm aware of that he answered fal of that brain of
of yours, my friend. I assure ye.**
He was leaning over and looking at the right-hand figure, whose stony face was the most villainous and dead- ly in expression, **,
"By Jove" he said, "something has been afoot here this hand is broken."" And so it was.. I was certain that it had been perfact: ~ the “last Almus | Laura and I had been there,
"Perhaps someone has tried to re- more them said
said the "Come along a doctor.
Mor my wife You'll come WSU be getting anxious. driak. confusion of whlaky and i to ghosts and better. Aerise, to me? BesT ought to go up is
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