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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1908-10-22, Page 5i Tax x 0O1oB''1 1908 THE GHOST OF LOCHRAIN CASTLE $3Y MRS. C. N.• AMSON Auth os of ante PrineeSs Basses," "The Lightning Conductor" Etc, Etc. Copyright, 1906, ivy hirre. Q, W, waLtanson. iged thele. I must find the night rwatchrnan and get him to break the doors in. It's a - wonder he or some eine else hasn't heard me before." -,which led into the toward herrn -she was seized round the waist from behind and at the same time a hand was pressed over her rrtouth) She felt 'that ishe had been lifted off ber, feet, And that she `was being borne itwa , away toward the corridor in the, di- rection of the tower. There could, be no doubt that the .hand which pressed her lips was the had nterferedvwith-be the success of his work and she was to be removed per- haps from the world. But, strangely in•ert°Else Elspeth's nst there heart at as no fear that o herself :She and eninthough Oxdut especially K- rith, whom she loved. S;rible death, If let she cold butdie asave -them she would be willing to die in their place. Let the murderer revenge himself upon her as he chose. With the fierce strength that only desperation gives, the girl tore at the hand which covered her mouth, land regaining her liberty for a sec - ,ond's space, uttered such a shriek as 1- she could not have given in a mo, went of less peril. It rang wildly through the corridor and was tea rible even in the girl's own ears. It seemed to her that it might almost maka dead man turn in hiso. be called thus. Bet would it rave John, Kenrith and Captain Oxford!, She pray that be so, forthe scream stilled might midst by the hand which crushed her face again, with an iron grip under titer chin, and a pressure so savage ;over her lips that it seemed the blood must spring through the delieate skin. Her neck was bent so roughly 'that her muscles were trainecj„ and ler breath choked back upon her lungs. A shower of sparks seemed to •rise and fall before her eyes, smart,- ling and raining tears in the thick '•smoke. She struggled again, but vain- ly, and in the agonizing struggle of 'body and mind against the =teen, compelling force, lost breath and consciousness. When she awaked, it seemed that she was lying on a bed—a bed at the same time comfortable and familiar. What had happened? Had she had o,horrible dream? she asked herself. There was the same pleasant, ming- „ ling fragrance of dried lavender and old wood which she had smelled ;every night when she had waked up in the wonderful bed in the tower room. Often she had told herself that these scents .would make her think of that room, no matter where she might be, and how many years might •]cave passed. Only last night she had thought that, not knowing she was not to sleep in that bed again. But, she said in her mind, perhaps it was part of the dream that she had een she could not mistake. No other changed to another xoom. Sure - ped could be just like that. And then, of she were not there, why should $lie be in bed at all? What about the fire.shining behind the closed door in the corridor, her frantic knockings, her scream, and the hand that. had choked away her breathe Had she really gone through that fearful ,scene? Oh, she coultT not doubt it. Perhaps, even at this minute, Mr. -Kenrith and Captain Oxford were :tieing burned death. Somehow she ,must save them. She tried to sit up, but something -held her down. Her arms were cross - ,:ed behind her back and tied together at the • wrist; she could feel where ;#hey were bound. And her feet were CURES Collo, Pains lin the 'Sttomach, Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Chol- era Infentum, Sea biCkness, Summer Complaint, and all Fluxes Of the Bowels. It has inert on the market for 63 years. Its efface are tnarvelons. It nets IMO A .&sky ut• dre gist f mit instantaneous. r. Sttbstitntes are Dangerous. '.rho genuine fe zetanufaettrrod b5 Tint T. Airr.nthgrf, Co.,!Altura*, Toronto, Ont. Pace 35 conte. COUPLE bl" DOSES CURED. Mot W. J. Wilson, Tcesier, Sask,, tolls of hdr c• perieuce in the following words: -- "I wish to tell you of the good I hawsand in Dr. Fowleros 1:xLruct of Wild Stra wb art• y . Last su ruiner ray tittle girl,a$ed two-Yoarbweb taken ill with Sum. suer npln: n t. and as my neither er ai wayi ,'opt Dr Fowler's in the hotels) when I was a child, I soothed to follow her exam- ple as / always have it diso. I at once gave it to my baby as directed and she ens at oven relieved, and after a. couple of ,dolls w.ro trued ses ti completely oared. bound also. She was powerless: to move, but at least she could cry out. Suddenly she remembered how near to the corridor of the burning room She opened her door and looked out. " was the tower. If the fire spread it would reach the tower; and if in real- ity she were lying on her old bed in the tower room it was only the ques- tion of a little time before the fire should reach her. and she would be burned to death. Elspeth Dean was young and strong, and the tide of life was high in her veins. The physical repulsion to death was intense in her, and the cry on its way to her lips was rbnder- ed even more piercing by the quick horror of this thought. She screamed long and shrilly, but a voice within her seemed to say with the echo of her own shriek that rang in her ears: "If you are in the tower, no •one will hear you. You might die a hundred deaths before any one would come." The girl shivered from head to foot, and lying there helpless, waiting' the horror that was to come, she felt that the bed had begun to move. There had been a click, and then slowly, smoothly, the bed began to glide along as if sliding in a groove. CHAPTER XXV. Elspeth's eyes were wide open, but the darkness was like a dark cloth laid upon them. She could see nor thing; but as the bed slowly moved, inch by inch, she felt an intensely cold air which surged round her like: the wind made by a pair of giant' wings. Then the bed stopped, still in' thick darkness, and she heard a sound of hurried footsteps and of light breathing. There was another, curious,. clicking sound, and while the girl wondered in chill terror what would come next, the bed on which she lay tiited°euddenly up at $uch an extreme angle that she rolled off. • There was a brief instant of horror,' as she tried vainly to save sherself, expecting a crushing fall, perhaps, into the black depths of some hideous oubliette; but 'she rolled from the bed upon a solid floor, covered with something soft, like a thick rug. And the fall was so slight that she was not even jarred. For a few seconds there was com- plete stillness. and then something er that moved brushed against her ger cheek. She believed that it was the up- bed Abed being rolled away again. "Now I am to be murdered, per- haps," was the thought that crept coldly into Elspeth's mind; but she could do nothing to avert whatever fate might be in store for her, exeept to cry out, and if she did that, it would probably precipitate her death. It was by instinct rather than eat- eulation that she lay still, scarcely breathing. Voices whispered near her in the darkness. She could neither recognize the tones nor make out the words, but she felt her fate was being dis- cussed, perhaps hanging' in the bal- ance. "I1 only they would believe me fainting," she thought. "They will wonder that I don't make a sound, and presently they'll strike a light and look at my face. I must lie with my eyes shut and hold my breath as long as I ean.,, Scarcely had she formed this plan of action, when a stream of white light fell upon her closed eyelids. With all the force of her will she kept them steady, het long lashes lying on her cheeks without a dicker. "Fainted," came a whisper, louder than before. "Can't be sure," murmured a see- °nd°1C . "She e maa be shamming." A moment later Elspeth . sect]] felt the pressure of a hatted on her chest. "She doesn't seem to breathe;" was the whispered comment. "Well, then, let us leave her for the present. She can't possibly ea - cape," "She Can scream." "It she did, the wouldn't be card," "Yet we are whispering." Loud voices might rouse the girl to consciousness. It's more conven- lent We've hno time tolwaste upon hould be es ernowe s. Little wretch! if she hadn't spoiled our game down below with her yells, the fire would presently have saved us all trouble, Our two birds would have been killed with one stone." "Too late to think of that, There hadMust be bettergo now But I would feel' safer if I were certain she could make no noise," "Simple enough to close her mouth." "You mean" ---.•- cant what toafford toyou risktthel smallest o. e tell- tale stain when we show ourselves downstairs among the people who've been roused by the fire and besides. I've another plan. The thing must be done before morning, and in such a way that she can be carried back to her bed and laid there quietly, with no one to guess that she met death by violence. A dose of laudanum is the thing; the bottle found by her sidekilled herself] because she'd that dis� charged." "You think of everything." "I have had some experience; otherwise I shouldn't be where I am. lauda- num?" get hold of the "Yes. I always keep plenty of stage properties. There, I've made a gag of a sort out of my handkerchief. A it in, and she newake when 's work is eo t tikes, without causing you a qualm," Elspeth heard every word of this conversation; and when a hand press- ed down her chin to open her mouth she lay limp and motionless as be- fore, making no resistance. ' A great lump of cambric was forced between her teeth, and still she feigned un consciousness. Her hearing seemed now almost abnormally keen. She heard the breathing of the two men. She heard the soft sound of footfalls on to thick rug or carpet, and at ast a faint click which seemed to come from a distance. After that all as still, and she knew that she had been left alone. She had heard why the men were oing, and it was reasonable to sup- ose that they would be gone some ime, Still. it could :,not be so very ong, if she were to be disposed of 'before morning," after the' fashion which had with so much quiet grim- ess been suggested. They would need arkness to hide the deed, if she were o be carried through the house ;and aid .upon the bed in the new room hose number they must already now. It is diitcult to recognize a voice rom a whisper, and Elspeth could of have guessed the identity of ither speaker from the murmurs she ad heard; nevertheless she was sure hat she had guessed the name of one an. The other was still a mystery o her; she had no idea who he could e. But, after all, it mattered little. °thing, indeed, need matter much her now, unless she could free erself and escape. To expect to do this seemed like expoeting to perform a miracle. And et Elspeth could not believe that she as to die to -night. For her there was but one ray of ght in darkness. She had heard one the men say to the other that she ad "spoilt their game." That must ean, she thought, that the alarm e had given.had been heard; that To Kenrith and Captain Oxford d been saved. And the idea that e had been able to do this gave her urage to attempt more. She did not ow where she wale but if she could ly free herself she could find out; d if, afterward, she could escape, e would be able to give at least one lain up to justice. 'Oh, if I could only loosen these irds that hold my arms," she said herself. "If I could do that, all e rest would be easy, perhaps." Elspeth Dean was a lithe and sup - as well as a slender creature, th all the elasticity of youth and alth. As a child she had been able do all sorts of wonderful things th her lively little body, and she d her brother, two or three years er than herself, had often played glorious play in which they were tortionists in a nursery circus. It s ctised a ye of the featsars since eforrl had which had been famous among her Iittle tnpanions, and indeed, she had for - ten all about them until this mo- at. Now, however, she suddenly remem- ed how well, in the old days, her y' had been accustomed to obey will. 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Said in t' bvcutics clidal o i your clkugglst& giviag ro ts` csto a WALLEY'S DRUG VIVRE. did she Writhe and t'w'ist her' eliut arms and boulders as 4,12 loosen the bonds made to hold lethielhupple mus- cles. Presently she felt a slight relax- ing of the bands which held her wrists. Slowly, slowly, grudging each moment, she twisted one hand out of bondage, the fiftieth part of an inch at a and she could have sobbed in o farad thanksgiving, though she was far from being out of danger. butvith one hand at libert, it was the work of a few seconds to tear the gag from her mouth, and to re- lease the other hand, Then she sat f ,woolly nd unwound mate res ]which narrow felt alike knitted work, from her ankles, She was free to move, free to escape—if she could but find a way Trfirst, heoscrambled tottering her littleet, at and for the first time since she had roll- ed from the moving bed seriously asked herself where she was. Gropistumb inglyon,h c te rching herflnd foot all, the, wrinkled folds of -a rug, and sav- ing herself from a fall by seizing an edsheesteadied herself, f some and fond Thus e hind that drapery the wall for which she had searched. Her hand touched a surface of wood, and passing her fingers along it, she discovered that it ended as a door might end, in a framing of atone. "The tower wall!" she seed to her- self; and remembered how the head of the strange old carved bed in the alcove had •seemed to be set in the wall. "That was the secret of it," she thought. "It was made for a murder trap in the old, old days when people used often to get rid of their guests in the night, and no one outside ever, ever knew what had become of them." Tlie girl stood still for a moment, vividly recalling the sounds • which had robbed her of rest, as she lay in that curious,carved bed in the al- cove of the tower room. If she were right in her guess, she must be now in some secret passage just behind the wall; and if the footsteps she had heard there were made by human be- ings, not ghosts, those human beings must have found their way in through some hidden entrance. Elspeth would have given anything now for a match, even a single match; but it was useless to wish, and she began to feel along the surface of wood for something like a spring. She could discover nothing, and, giv- ing up hope at last, she groped far- ther on, until to her delight she came upon a steep, narrow stairway. It al- so was covered with some thick, soft material, as if to deaden the sound of footsteps, but here and there a board creaked; and the girl fancied that the noise was like some she had ooheardm. , lying in bed, in the tower r The stairway was so exceedingly steep as to resemble a ladder, and the girl counted thirty steps before she reached the top. Above was a floor of wood, which she tested with her hand before trusting her feet upon it. She imagined now that she must be in the room above the one she had occupied in the tower; and as she had been told that it was in a ruinous condition, • she stepped carefully: but she found no sign of loose debris as she moved cautiously along literally inch by inch; and it occurred to her .that the stairway she had seen brick- ed up had probably been made a no - thoroughfare for some other reason than the one believed by Mrs. War- den, the housekeeper. There was no time to ispeculate upon that now, but Elspeth could not help recalling the night when the blood - red drops had rained through the cracks between the oak rafters in her room. Now she was in the abade of mystery, yet she could guess as lit- tle at the explanation as on that night when she had started at the falling rubies as though unable to believe her eyes. As she moved slowly along she stretched out her arms, trying to touch the wall, as she had before, when suddenly she stumbled over something whieli lay at her feet— something eetsornethin soft and heavy, over which she would have fallen if she had not recovered her balance with a quirk backward step. In the excitement of discovery acid progress Elspeth had almost forgot ten her fear, but now it returned up- on. her, like a Cold, overwhelming wave, What was this soft, heavy bundle on the floor of the hiddenroom in the tower? She hardly dared stoop to touch it_ with her hand, which grew ice-cold with fear of the coming Contact. Though every moment was he utmost importance now, and e or death might lie, for her, in (3 difference of a second, she bent e s ti t . clew Miss s Annie Kane, 30 $ot%llicr Street, ing Ottawa, dtt.states: and "1 was afflicted with severe neuralgic head. her aches, was also dizzy and nervous. The use a of Dr, Chase's Nerve Food entirely cured these headaches and did Inc a' world of good, steadying ]try nerves and toning up the twain generally." °e tweet this time, She was touching a woman's hair, vA ix elaborately dressed in thick waves 1 to do atthing against wh#eh Bier ileal and blood rebelled, she touched a face so cold that it might have been I tr•emblin.g fingft ers hathen, o tlinedd tehe ee tures, wandered to a marble threat and motionless breast, clothed in silk, she yielded at lust to her impulse and shrunk back, sick • with horror of thd► thing she had found in the darkness. Who was it who lay there, dead? Who was the perpetrator, who the vie /in, of this crime -••since crime it must surely bell Elspeth could not Ft' s; neither nerves nor brain were in a condition to make guesses, and her one thought was now to escape r f ora this s ore•' h zbleplace.--wherever it might be, She groped for the opening at the head of the stairs, and found it again, risking a fall by almost running down the steep steps; and thankful as she had felt a few minutes since, to reach the top she was a hundredfold more thankful to be at the bottom again. Once more she searched with eager fingere for some spring on the wide panel .of 'wood which she took to be the tack of the movable bed; but find- ing nothing, she moved on until she carne at last upon another wooden panel. There ' she did find a knob of metal, and pressing it the panel slippey silently, smoothly away from under het hand. Instead, an open space was left, through which her boherself y could nto the ape ate eElspeth vith joy- ous sensation of being saved. e For an instant she stood bewilder- ed, but the faint light which took the place of blackness seemed bright- er than it really was, to eyes accus- tomed to the dark. Dimly she could see shapes she soon made out to be chairs and tables. She was in a fur- nished room, with uncurtained win- dows that were squares of starlit sky. "Thher- self, e as titheer r familiarity of the sur- roundings impressed themselves upon' her mind. "The tower room! .And I must have come in by the entrance through ich the ghost—or man—appeared e other night. That is why he van- th ished so quickly and so silently. He , came through a secret door, and went back by the same way." Elspeth waited only 'long enough to close the door (which shut by a spring, as it had opened), made sure with an exploring finger that she could find the spring again, if need were, and then she fled to the door which was the known entrance to the room. 1 She had feared to find it locked, - and_ao .it..ygs.. but !Only .:by. -a .bolt on the inside, which slie slipped "back, Then she was in the landing which led to the tower stairway, and there the air was still thick and acrid with smoke. It was her one way down toward safety, but she took it with fear and trembling, realizing fully that she was far from being out of danger yet. CHAPTER XV. A plan was growing in Elspeth' brain as she groped her way dow the stairs, usually lighted througho t the night, but in black darkness now "I£ I come safely through this,' she promised herself, "the whole rays tery of the house and the plots th have been going on in it shall be un ravelled before morning." As she descended the two steps which led from the tower into the corridor beyond her feet splashed down upon wet carpet, as if she had stepped into thick, damp moss. Evi- dently much water had been used to put out the fire, and the reek of smoke was offensive still; but apart from the acrid odor and to soaked car- pet there were no other signs of the conflagration to be detected in the darkness. Whatever had happened here was all over and done with long ago. As Elspeth. flitted, ghost-like, through the dark corridor a clock somewhere struck three. Only two hours and a half since she had left her room and started out upon the exploring expedition which had come so near .to ending in tragedy! The girl could scarcely believe that the clock told the truth, for it seemed that she had lived through days and nights of horror since then. "Perhaps when -the light comes I shall see that my hair has turned gray," she thought, and shuddered as in spirit she touch- ed again the marble features, the silken hair of an unknown dead wo- man in the dark. It was so black in this corridor now that Elspeth could not make out the doors on either side, but she stretched out her hand to torch the first one as she passed. It was open, and so was the next. The doors of the three large rooms on either side were ajar, and it was certain that those who had occupied those rooms had been driven out of their quar- ters by the fire. Where, then, were Mr. Kenrith and Captain Oxford? Upon, finding them before it was too late the success of Elspeth's plan depended. Once in the great hall, far from the scene of disaster, the girl began to feel a sense of security after dead- ly peril. She was weak and spent after all she had endured, and all that was physical in her longed for rest. She yearned to escape to her own room, lock the door, fling her- self down on the bed, and rest there safely till morning, thanking Heaven for rescuing her from a terrible fate. But she had work to do still, and in spirit she was ready, though her body shrank from further ordeals. There was very little smell of burn- ing in the eat hall, and one or twos jets of gaurned low, faintly illum- ined the place. Elspeth found an lectric bell, which summoned wait• rs by day, or a night porter, if me essary, in the dark hours, and very uickly ck the y ons was answered by man who showed his surprise at ight of a young ire alone o ie at this gis B me in this place. Elspeth, who kept early hours, had ever belore encouutcred.ta Tright pore r in the hotel, and her face was s strange to him as his to her. 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"Yes, miss, that was how it was He was out of his room at the time t seems with Lord Lochrain, I be ieve, who had sent for him on busi ness—at least, that's the story I wa old by some one • but wt believed in that old story, or ani' of o£ the other fearsome ones that ars told about the place until to -night_ n Now, I can't deny that those screams. e ie. a woman's voice, and no woman to be seen, have gone a long way to - l converting me. Why I heard them. " myself, though I will say I didn't know where they came from until the e alarm of fire in the corridor that goes , to the Ivy Tower. It was Mr. Ken-- rith who got there first and saved:. his friend from being burnt up in.` s his sleep, as he would have been.) • probably, since it was in Captain Ox -1 ford's room the fire started." e l "What caused it?" the girl asked' in a hushed voice. • "It might have been a lighted cig arette end, or something of the sortie ! nobody knows, but Captain Oxford ad- s mits smoking in his room. It's strange you should only just have got word of the great excitement in the house„ miss, for everybody else nearly was - up and has gone off to rest again now.. Is there anything I can do for your" "What became of the people whci were obliged to turn out of their s i II u ; t , µn uertcu screams, in a voice he thought he a- knew, and would go to find out what was the matter, though his lordship heard nothing, and wouldn't allow 1 that anything was wrong. The queer . part is that nobody could find any one who had screamed, though sev- eral persons who had gone to their rooms thought they heard a woman 1 shriek, anti they say now it must have been the White Lady of the Ivy Tower, who gave the warning, just as she used to do, only in the old I days it was when any member of the family was in danger that she would appear. n with i slow w relucta i r ce. 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