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vrifaua, vntlK ktiwkr to ttola afaarf
4fa Mtnaal o lit auina on im
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ak fkll o 1m lluajaa of I aitrr
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In a rrtirMunl In h! an ti r I
rfvant'in. t ttouaa of tt!r. h Ht
ont hmi fnula nl tuai(uiiiia i-kll-
nl iherfibg him an. I it lifiing
I rum I j m.i.a ir d.rk , .,u.la lu. I,.
vci lu uuth. t.aJ haunirl .1 Th. rr -
f.tc. h"n h airut an wrgni lrllT
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a t ' if uy nil j-1' 'i nig linn
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khiirt a tliTi a h: licr r.iuld -,trrv
htm t- lh a 1 i I n4A!tJn 1 olir
hat , a rUlrti thfr hi.i i-ppi vaaii. I
k lllrn:a riivi aiil 'ri it -rij h:
frln4 t a ? h.tn tlir i.uii-iii aiJ
ibftr 1, ih.- r-l 'i 111
huh lha lluuam if thrr aj It
k!ti aa a l artl'-utAr ii JrtMiv ona.
and tha day at lh ;. r hi. h th
friiiil cnt atrhin tt! i f u. in.ui
kiHti kail t-t--ii na ol ih ilult. t)irk.
aunlra daa r autuntii
At th nrl nl.ini.i-. ,.f lh.- I,, us, lli
frlrn.l frll a milk. ..f .!! ! i.il ti
f triuff irall gi m -i.ni tiff h'lti
Tti fi-r!ir.4 a urrrllf .-.1 t Mt - r
tha "H..- aafitirnt-nt a hi. h la a- ii i
!. aajk-nd t a.-. n ( i.f I'k1 tlr
"Ull.iti Tt wh.iU ifniilv
i-n 'f u!,WHiit 'tii r. ',.. ii an 1 Itir
f rlt lul - riei.- a unV nit Ui'
a-'Vi! avi.-l mji It olnp.ira l-l .'nl t'
tltAl a 111. h ti'liuWi all ..pium ileLmm L..
Th aalla of Ui- h"ua arrr tpk nnJ
karr. Ih .il,k. aliid'.aa af.- -i
rant. th hflir.-a nfrf rank am! hr.'k n
anil a f 9 , nhlli trunk f ii avtng
If- if .!Irt al'.ut Ik- .t-'tiinln
glr-ni'il chu'lv lt.-.uti tlic f.i' '.
dui.k.
Th- (rr.gr 'ilnpil m hia hor.' 1'V
th tS.U i f a iminll lukc -r lam lit. h
lay Uh unrut'l-l aurfa.-e Wt-r tha
hmi4 i..J J-d d-ioii ill i. ' r l . -1
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11, tin ( Id- oil ll li"t- il' I
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Inn a . f k ...m h li.f
Prat .iht .-f 'he n-i.ti-t n ri
Ijlto hlH i..ti! U l;l! a an ' t lht ' 'in
irtd him T!it Tl -.ill
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hta rii.-i. i i. j ,r. i t e. d him
ll n ,. . n- ik. ! home
rrmt mt Um foarW ajul hat.
f.r . i . i . : . . k- - 'Ii'' traveler ieptc i tiniuli't
looked ..p .4-- ' . i.-nd'tig n The room in which 1hv .it Inl'ln
atrit. f.-.i ... r hini lie w.i- a.i dark that. I' the f-etilr and
lnui;t.. 1 h.,t -..r wti .1 minrlnri d itig Itcl't which ciiiieln Ihrowyh tli
eii.l .1 in.,.; -r- i. n.( .,;i .i..r;i p-cu- hll'li wl'nlmi. It H i. - It'itioeMl!.!.- tn t.e
liar I. iiv .; n atmoaphrr hi- h the remoteat part "f the Mtudlr, or f,)r
had no if r.iii aHh th- air of h. avcli. , t li eye to penetrate to the loft v. dark
till r-rV. T iip from Ih de riving ceinh . tliev talked, however th
trees the gruv aalland the ilnt larn ' visitor dlailnctlv the figure of the
- ,i i .F '.'r r...te v i i-r fa i n t - 1 A d v Madelitie enter a door nt the
ly d'. err.c. hie and lead-n hued further end of 'he nnnrtment eroa
Hi . inc..! ;he v a: I of tb houa th mom nnd dla'tppear through an
i I..,, ,v i,. I a thnt t,e dl d iratior other door without noticlna th pic
..f t' till tn k" il Minut -nee of the :rnnrer A The evei of
funfi ov. rpres,1 the wall and hung the vlttnr followed her r trentlng
from !he . ivr in a fn-. t.ingied web- form, h- f"it n en.itlon f il'i""r
work Even- IndlMduil Mon of the com over him. not tinmlngled , with
airu.Jture via In crumbling condition, astonishment and dread nwitlnri
et ea. h w a,' in 1t place Hut bv ond I f or which h wa utlertv unnhte to
this fidenW of . ;r.le decay noth-j account Roderick rut hla hand be
ing g;.e the f vbrtc an appe.-vranc nf
In&tahiltlv ur.lej p. a.i an Indistinct
Bur ahich . ould b in n b a . loc
obeerver clarugg4nc down the front,
wall frewn the rn,-.f fft-ihe stiTl.-h watcr
of the tarn Th visitor mde serosa
th narrow causeway which extended
over the little- lake to the house
4t;room lejvlt hi horw. and. entering
th Oottfic archwai of lh entmnc
hall, a valt who sio.mI reavdv to r
ctv him. ciriducied htm bv dark and
UbvTtnthtan nkaavg tn th presence
of hi old friend, the master of th j Rodrlrk upon th guitar Iing Im
Hotise of lhr provlaed dirges would Roderick piny
Rodr1ck t".hr nnd hla sister Mad-' or, riimposlne1 n he wnt. jom wlr l
line were th last of an ancient famllv 1 melody would areompany It with
which for 1-cr.t uric had rro-cedi .1 to j rhymed Impromptu verse. One he
gather age In the direct lln of dacnt j broke oiit Into a lingular perversion
wdth no enrturing collateral branches, i and amplification of the, wild air of
And now tt meemed as If even this inrg the last walti on Von Weber,
enduring dtre-t line ttiuil come to an j It waa the morbid condition of
end. Th lhers had been noted lime Roderick' auditory nerve, .perhapa
out of mind for a peculiar aenattlvpn j that affliction which mad all music
of temperament, d'eplavlng Itself In a
munificent tot unostentatious charily
and In an exalted devotion to art. es
pecially tn the higher and more subtle
Intricacies of the c.lne of music.
In th mind of the iontry people
11 that belonged to the family, cor
poreal or Incorporeal, had been hand
ed down for o many generation that
thev had become meneed In n and
ao th ITnae of fiber mint both th
gloomr dwelllPg In wMeh Roderick
end b alete now Hi'ed wwntMne l
end of their lln and tha family Itielf.
' The Jnrfiev "1 vllto- through
the wlndlnar ewndoee to the tudtn -t
' kla Mend. rved to brighten th vagu
entlmenta of terror n lieuresalon
' which had fllled nod he
had lint com Ip eight -of th Houa
of l'hf. Th"r were fentaa'le n't
lecta on e-eenr hand grwtrawin ran,.
Kg on the cellltit-". imw Mptntrieev
I nor hlacM aa eben with aaw and
phantaamaarorlc rtrmelal trophl,
whk-h rallied as h wwlknd. fm una
of tha atalrcaen h Br man wha.
front hla pp ranee, he had gueWjOd
In be tha family physician
Th urei wa cere-. and tht
phvsirian. h had vilrty been cr
tHacting Ro4rH:kXi fiicsd, vccon4
ig a i ii ii
i w mmmw m Btu, reatreraiaar weiB l(
uia irma awitM em
Ilk rtar k tt4 mf.m. tk
i of funking ant (wrjiktf 1 h
Mv4v of h frta4, k4 H4r ' k
1 Ho h4 i'i rx-linlng kaa row h.
rmih lo tk K"um Ttik M4 f
th muitr f l'nr m k large and
It.rii rvx.m, -with U-ist. Mrrov, aotnt
ilnJo r'bi inmi of titrrin
H(M mat tkrlr tknul
fuwon ttt aatiu fyrmtlur ani Ikltrr
1 hffhim. Maitr kokk kid 91r
t lnirumBi 1st itrr1 kut. kul
la gn n. -1ii!tir t tk -rt
1K tlt.r flt thi ha br(h4 an
aim trr r c.r a..rr Aflr 1'ihir
- J gTvu4 h , tt64. iu ..Jiinnir
. i Kacif4 ,ujani 'lh Uhal tnn
1 fur
imn' h wn ul nl
giitl v(i'fv hirti ih
n thla fratl, n
him tha comFkriin
ht; hii frlrn.l
tity and a.
"fit ha'n tf'i
' of, hit tii ht..d
Kn In youth th rumplrilon nf
ahrr had tn ra.lavrouaw buw It
. ihaatly In It a ."ri..-Hka pall-"'
I Atarax kta Rnaly lurlad II pa had bn
IMn and tdiHli-aa. hl rnaa of a ilaii-
air l(ahra ni.idrl hU chin nnalv ,
mil led hl hair nft and Wnui'iii !
, Via If ttvra i ham 'Irrtatlrs wra tltf. !
: grrkinl' in u h a dre aa ti giva
n atanluliilv um annv t"ik to tha man :
and m.k hla frtnd dnil.t to whom h i
a...k Th haally .alir of th akin!
rmnrmvr fflr ttia lrtlTsrtiHn-tiiirfr'
'f lh- -i waa atrtin Th hair!
- thnl In t ihtn. g.mmrr taatfitr ftal- I
.it r.iihcr Hi. in f'll hit Mi lur. ard
th trt hol'lrr It aral in rffai't lha
. atrr. tuuid iul kAajuiwt a.lh. aJiv.idaal
"f ."lrri.l hiitnanlty Th' n thiTi um1
tti- ninnrnr I'f thf niui -tni'i'htT'n !
an. I tn. ..iialt nt Allrrrati: hr imui 1
mm '"in and ullrn Klrt. tila nlij
.i lull .if trrfliul'iui Indr'-laiiin and
: mm
tt wntitfl hva Ttia laautan. pair
nn 'd and i rfn Hi mudalatrd git '
In raj iittrram-f m hlch In heard In I ha
v.iica if th .ii drunkard .r tha lr- ,
ri". Inimnlt!. nj.l im patt r during; '
rl-'d- ff I rite nf i . It mi. n ' 1 'hor t.r - I
r n to rvpia'n h hi- Iia1 nl fur
l.n In. rid
llf ana aiifTrliic. al t. from an
atnirtnal nrntrti"! nf th. an!M TIa
"uld .i unlv th m t Inalpid fund
Hp i iiil.la Mr garmnita "f "tilv a rr i
tHln t.ilur Tha i.d'ir f nil floaora
na .piTra.M r He ii.i.i.I lunr unlv!
t lu. fwlnlral light Hfl'l th-r- w r I'ltly E
p ti 1 1n r iiinda. and I h . fr..ni Mring-
d Inatrunipnta. that (H I 1 1 . . t ln.lr
li'm with trr.ir Ha the ili'lm
..f n p.'-ii'iiir ap- li "f t-rr'T
t ilrfad.' ha aald. "th ffTi'rta "f th
1 .I'iri- ti.it f.ir 1hmailMa hut f-.i th
' rr.ir ahlrh ; hay alll .,pir In me
I
l.i ti.it rftihur il.inar In llaalf ''ill
1 1 a r.. t til.'h la trrnr In tnv
n. rvil r indltPin 1 ahall. aoonar or
I,.
l?r, uUnuliiD llf- Bin! riraaan logflhcr
In
mi- ..Iriiggl with that rt phan-
l.i.im fiir' tahnr hrvad thai
- rn. it: thaa lrn.Ha uf hta d!-a ara
th. 'ulta nf ih p'iill.ir nftT'iua
im whh'h h had !nhirltd fmrn
hi- ,iniitivr and ahlrh. t-n lilmlf
tui. l.t-.ini.' atinnrmitllY anrtiirTt-'l
t . r rriit war h' ri'rif.aa.il ihat t'.'
t ikI nnt lft lila hcitip. which, ha h
! . l pnRaV-d .ni- ..crilli ti.ii-r
. r htm 1 1.. ....tr,ii- .. , f ii, i-.m, .
ii'C ti' tttiR iit-'ti 111. t.,..l .md ni'nd
I it thr um tnnr- mtiir.l and
tv-'t rntlcn.-il cnita t t nh!" ' inini'lfj
i-'nltt-d fur n rral iurt ,f ti i iit'-"I-
iitulfti Thnt i- tl,.- III,,., ,,f
till" alatiT Shr H jltll, t-i iilh n
wnotttig dln hi. h Ii.i1 l.fr'...l nil i
mrTfifat rk-llt and i"ia:ri iwht. hndf.
trilggtPd flgn1nT tor tllne n
about the hi'iiii- hIi- wit ,.
r'lildlv nfirltiir ti, r oij It.
I 'ber :.i. It il l.it'r ii.-m
.-.i. Il.ru th- li-.p. . h .it'd '
1TT of tin- I h. r. alone and
In In Hi- -I r. 1. 1 ii li'i.. T.f In
tor Tl'- .ii..ii.. lth which
Mail. -line wm ii rT1ii-t.'t hud nn
d kent
l.i.lv
usual
dlnffti-ai il n-tll-d npnth
h vrrn luiil
, "inr i -1 of Th- hod- nnd
: iilthouph tranallory affect In
-rit
f a
for hi far and th tars trickled
through hi flnacr That
I rl1mp.- the vlaltor v. r
a the laet
caught of
Ijidv M'id.line Thst night Roderick
'nfo'roved Min Vi t icr hsd'f
lr.st glvn tip her struggle agnlnst
fat and trikcn tn hr bed
The. frind now dvo4ed himself
entirely to trvlng to alleviate th"
mental condition of Koderlok. Thev
patnld ahd rend together. Or Ih visi
tor llstenrd In a sort nf haunted air
dream, to th wild Imtvrovitatlona of
intolerable to th nffrer xcpt cr
tain eound produced by tr1nged In
struments which caused him to con
fin htmaelf to a narrow rang upon
tha guitar, and tht may have been
on of th chief cause of the fan
tastic character of hla performance.
But the fervid facility of hi Im
promptu could only be accounted for
by the mental condition of th per
former. "
It wag In on of thee wild rhap
and lea on In which ITghar accom
panied hla mualc with a rhymed verbal
improvisation -thai th friend first
discovered thnt th master of th
Houa of'T'eher waa i awara) that hta
once lofty, reaaon waa tottering upon
Ita throne- tt wi that weird but
eou1alte poem, line o well known
under th nam of "Th Haunted
Falnc.' A few Mamma wilt recall it
to Uiw who bav already perused It
and IIL irivo to tho who have nnt
an Idea of Ha character. It waa thug.
In that dlm-ltt atudln with th high,
tall wlndowa through which th faint
red beams penetrated that gloomy
apartment with the tattered hanging
and Ih high, carved celling, tn that
grim and rrumhllng houa that Rod
erick lug to bit Irleudl -;
if -
i Mt i&n, mutt v mm inv ywwx' i
1 ItRFAD." nE SAID. "THE EVETTS
ME. I IX)
In th greeneet of our valleya.
By good angele tenanted.
Once a fair and etatcly pklace
Radiant palace reared Hi hand
In th monarch Thought" dumlnlnn
1 1 etnod there.
Nr acraph eprcad a plnlnn
Over fabric half ao fair
Wandarere In that happy valley
Through two lumlnona wlndowa aan
Kplrlti moving mualcally
Ti a lute'a well turict l.iw
Hut evil thine In robe of sorrow
Aaatitled that monarch hlKh eat&te.
(Ah. let un mourn, for never morrow I
Shall limn upon him deaolat I "
And travelera now wtttiln that valley
i.ie.iiiv; Through th red-lllen window ec
''"'"1 ;'t form thnt move fnntaatically
" ""III ! Tn a discordant melod v
' ' ,n'' I While, like a rapid hatiy river
.-.pair- Through th pale door.
A hldeoim throng rush out forever
And luiiKh bust smile no tnnre
i
The palnta which Roderick pro
! duced defy description Hut If ever
! a man painted an idea he did Yet the
; Idea, while not exactly part and par
1 t el of that tottering bratn. were all
I ao tinged by the welrdneaa of his men
tal condition aa to defy production ln
word. Aa his elaborate fancy brood
ed over hie work his paintings grew
i UUle by Utile li) a vagueness which
was, neverth ,dess, an lncraad re
production of the Idea he was atrlving
to convey by his brush One, of hla
phantasmagoric conception! which
partook ao rigidly of th aplrlt of
abstraction may be shadowed forth,
although feebly. In worda. It waa a
amall picture rprsentlng a long,
rectangular vault, or tunne.1. with low
walli, emooth. whit and without 'n
torruptlon or device. Certain acjee
aory point of the dvc served to
ahnw that this excavation lay at an
exceeding depth below the surface of
the earth. No nutlet was seen In any
portion of Ita vast extent and no torch
or othat means of artificial light. Vat
a flood of Intense white limit rolled
through tha place, bathing the whol
tn a ghaatly splendor. -
Whlla Roderick I'aher and hi
friend were thus employed, th on
striving In vain to Improve th menial
condition of the maater of the house
and the other awaiting In terror the
final catastrophe which hla morbid,
half-erased senses told him waa some
how, how, he could not tell, but with,
circumstance of terror, Impending
while they wer thus employed tho
name of the lady Medelln was not
mentioned between thera.
The visitor felt Instinctively that to
mention her name would but Increase
the affliction under which her brother
was laboring, and he waited for Rod
erick to speak. But Roderick spoke
not of her who was tn tha minds of
both, naturally, moat of. th time.
Purine this portod the visitor obtain
ed many gllmpaea of the strange hal
lucinations which wer ever clustering,
thicker and thicker, about the doomed
reason of Roderick.
The opinion In- Its general form
that there is s sentlenca In all Vege
table things Is no novelty. It ha been
advanced and maintained by many
eminent dentists. But tn th dis
ordered mind of Roderick this theory
took on more daring character. His
belle was connected with what he had
hinted at before, the Influence of the
stones of his father's house upon his
mental character. He believed that
even stones and minerals had a sen
tience and thnt this had been fully
proved of them as well aa of vegetable
organisations in th House of Usher;
even th order of the arrangement
of the stones of which th building
was composed, as well aa In the fungi
which overspread them and of - the
decayed tree which stiod around
kbov all In th long, kndleturbed
endurance of this arrangement and Its
redupllcatlen In the waters nf th
tarn. The evidence of this sutluc
m- a. WiliM , . . a IIIf&JIWII lli IIII II ! llllf II I I I I I mil
. a- - - rtjr. f. . Hi If JU I r Hit 1
ii i ni,;f-.s j v i. 1 1 1 4 i i 1 1 1 ii u k i in i u 1 1 .1 ii it 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 nr.
OF THE rtTVnF. T FOR TlfE
XrT ABHOK UANt.Hl IN ITSE1.K.
waa to be teen, he ald. In th grad
ual, yet certain cohdenaaflon of an at
mnaphere of their own about the
water and walla
Th 1altor etarted, for he remem
tiered how. when he had paueed on
th further aid of the rauy upon
hi arrival and looked at th houae
and the domain, he had fancied he
aaw a peculiar atnuiaphpre an aura
about them Roderick went on to aay
that II waa Una attnoaphorii which
had for i i ir nrie been txertlng an
Influence upon hie family, and had at
length made him what hi friend
aaw him. It aa the enllencc of the
atoiiee and planta which hd been
exemng meir upon ni lamny wnn
ia terrible and portentou Influence
t i ( mmlmi phytr1n would prrtba-
i ' 11 ivueru tuea waa jiui
m unscientific after all In thle
laurr
respect, and havo replied. "Ye. per
nl loua malatiii exerting Itself upon
a race from generation to generation "
Hut In the days when Poe wrote sani
tation was known only crudely, and
the ' Krm theory" had not been
evolved This by way of digres
sion )
The b.mks over which Rodorlck i with hla voice of undecided, trembltn
anif his friend pored hook which j ""aver, waa now habitual with him.
had for year formed no small part He epok always aa one under the in
of the mental eitnc nf the Invalid : fluence of extreme and awful termi
were, as might be supposed. trtcliy , He spent his time mostly In roaming down. pry. tier is on 01 your ra
in keeping wt'h the character of his 1 from chamber to chamber with a!Xortt rmanoa. I wl read to you
fantasies They were all weird, all hurried, unequal and nhjerti ep. and ao w will paaa this terrible night
contained mure or less of perfervld ! Hla friend thought, al time, that ht - together." Th volume which he
fancy A they sat one night in the i nnceaslngty agitated mind seemed ta- I caught upat random waa thkl ntitlnu
studio discussing one of the most 1 boring under the possession of ome i fantasy of Blr Launcelot Canning,
weird and fanciful of these book Rod-
erlck suddenly announced that hia lis
ter waa no more She had died that
day. and he made what appeared at,
first a singular proposition, but one i
whlch, upon reflection, his friend
thought reasonable and sane enough.
Roderick mild that he Intended to
preserve his lister's body for a fort
night In mm of the subterranean
apartments of the house previous to
Its final Interment. He had been led
to this resolution, he said, by a consid
eration of the unuaual malady of the
deceased, because of certain obtrusive
and sagas lna uiriaaei the medical man
and becjKis of th remote and exposed
position of the family burial place.
When hi friend recalled the u
plclous and sinister face of the medi
cal man when he met him upon the
stairs on the occasion ef his arrival
at the House of Usher he had no de
sire to oppose th proposition of
Roderick. Usher requested his friend
personally to assist him In th tem
porary entombment. The body having
been placed In Its coffin, th two
men bora It io Its resting place. It
was a small, damp vault, built far be
low th house, to which they carried
th coffined body of th Lady Made
line. The vault had bee a originally
constructed In feudal times, for the
worst purpose of a donlonkaep, and
It was evident that In mora modern
days tt hsd been used for the storage
of gunpowder ot something sloe of
a highly ' combustible nature, ' for a
portion of Its floor end th - whol
exterior of a !ng archway through
which It was reached were carefully
sheathed tn copper. The door was of
massive Iron, aad It Immense weight
caused an - unusual sharp, grating
noise as tt turned upon Its hinges.
Having deposited their mournful
burden upon eome trestle which had
been provided, th two mourner at
this strange burial turned ' back the
coffin lid. which had not been fast
ened down, and looked upon the face
of th tenant. The .friend noticed a
remarkable resemblance between the
face of the dead woman and that of
her brother, and mentioned It. Roder
ick told htm that they were twins an
that sympathies of a scarcely tntelll.
gib is natur ; had always existed be
tween them. What wss especially
noticeable was th condition which
existed In th deceased, marks whlcu
ars generally present In all persons
after death who die rem strn-tiy
cataleptic diseases. There a fslnt
flush upon the face and bosom rd
Ibat peculiar suiUs about th lip
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lT..Cdii,ntvtrrUH ' Notal..g,lar ln )t terror and beautr A
long did they gai upon th grueaom-I wntrlwlnd had .nur...!. ..nL.j
ight
but rioaing the opffln. lelt ihe'u. forcw ,B th, vU..'v . ' ,h.
vault, taatenlng the great door after
thm and making their way thence
with toll to the upper, but ararcaly
lea gloomy, portion of the house.
Some day of hitter grief followed
for Roderick. In which he mourned
hi dead ilter after a manner which.
title not i-ntlridy free from ekhib
lion of hla eccentrlcll!, waa atill.
for htm. peculiarly normal of charac
er; hta grief had eomeahat pi.ahcd
1 hi abn.wmallt! trmporaiily Into tl;
' background Then, euddenly. a great
change .me over him Hla former
occupation, were neglected and hi
'ordtnury manner had vanlihed. The
f palior - ul fei..ou4iina. aaaumad. l
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.u,..tt...ii-.iiT-w v, i 11 la ciu ninn'i Aiiaiaiion. wnicn aeemea 10 niti
vmnsnea uuerii ii wis a II eome
w ild weird light hlch had burned
behind ihem had suddenly gone out
Into ashes. Th chang mas terrily
Ing
! That Strang, guttural, well-bai-I
a need and modulated speech, which
I he had formerly used In alternation
1 oppressive secret, to divulse which ha
vainly struggled for th nesceaaary
courage. Then at time he would
sit gastng Into vacancy aa one with
strained ear lletenlng lo some lmagin-
ary sound His friend set all this
down to the vagaries of a madman
and had now no doubt that the rea-j
son oi Kooerica i sner had been en
tirely dethroned, th final blow hav
ing been given to it bv h'a sister's
death. The friend felt that he him
self was being Infected by this con
tinual association with the madness
of Roderick. Creeping oven him by
(JtaTe. he .felt lh wild Influence of
Ushers Impressive yet fantastic su
perstitions and vagaries
It was upon the seventh or eighth
day after the Lady Madeline had beei
placed in her temporary tomb that
the friend, upon going to bed, felt
with unusual Tore these terrifying
Idea com over him. Sleep would
not approach htm whlla th hour
passed, and h tried to reason him
self out of his fancies In vain. Hs
tried to tell himself that hi gloomy
surroundings, the tragedy of hi
friend, fate, the death of lidy M.deT
lln and th fnoantng of a rising temp-
eat whlrh waa rapidly lnsrelng in
fore wer th things which Influenced
him. But his efforts at applying rea
son to hla stats were fruitless). Hs
felt aa Irrepressible tremor pervade
his frame and upon his heart sat th
very Incubus of a causeless alarm.
He sat up In bed and peered earn
estly into the utter gloom of hi apart
ment and listened he could not tell
why he listened or what. he expected
to hear, . Rut be did hear now cer
tain low and Indefinite sounds which
cam at long Intervals through the
pause ot th storwi whence he couid
not guess., Aa Intense sense of horror.
ttnf".rl.".l nn"tabl took
posetesioa of him. He arose hast ly
and. dressing, began to pace rapidly
to and fro through th rewm. He had
taken bnt a few turn In thai manner
when he heard a step im an ad
joining staircase. He recognised It as
that af Roderick Vsher. Roderick en
tered th room bearing lamp. There
was msd hllsr'ty In his eyes, re
strained hysteria In hts whole demean
nr. He aard at hta friend for a
few momenta In silence and then
cried. "Have yon seen it?" Raying this
h carefully screened ths lamp. Went
ta a window end threw It open. The
gnat whk-h swept Into ths room nearly
lifted thm off their feet .
It wss a singularly wtl-J yet beauti
ful night sterol beautiful and wildly
WHICH TlfKY U1I I ivcpibp
TCHROR." "fcPIBE
ruehe of Uf came flrat from on dl
reotlon and then from another. Thae
frequent and violent alternation aad
the eiceaelv density of tha cloud
which hung ao low they actually
touched tha turret of tha houae, did
not prevent a perception of tha fact
that three clouda wer careering from
all point agsJrwt each other with Ufa
like velocity, but nnt paaelng away
Into the dlatance. There waa no
giimp or moon or tar nor waa
there any flaahlng of lightning. Hut
the under aurfacea of the huge, agl
tated maaee of vapor, aa well aa all
'. terreatrlal object about, were in the
.unnaturaJ light of a faintly glowing.
.uia ummnv """'a, gaaeoue vapor,
about and enshroud the mansion. Wi
It th aura of the falling Houa of
1'sher that condensation of vapor
which Roderick aaJd had been going
on for centuries to Influence th des
tinies of hi race?
Th friend dragged Roderick hae
from th casement and rloaed It
These appearances," said ho. .."are
electrical phenomena not uncommon,
or It may be they have their-orleln
in the rank miasma of the tarn. Bit
I Th Mad Trial.
Th friend had seiged the book
"'" an iu mv ina mau ion wmcn
he mlaht read In it would hrtea re
lief to th now agitated hypochon
driac, for th history of mental dis
orders la full ot sucM anomalies. Usher
listened to ths wild tale with a
strained, eager air of vivacity until
the reader came to th part where
Ethelred kills the dragon. The words
of ths sentence .were: "And Ethelred
lifted, up his mac and struck th
bead of th dragon, which fall dead
before him and gave up hi pesky
breath with a shriek so horrid and
harsh, and withal so piercing, that
Ethelred had never heard th Ilk
thereof befor."'
At this point the readsr paused
abruptly, for h heard, distinctly
heard, wlQl a feeling of wild amax.
ment, a low and apparently distant
harsh, protracted screaming or grating
eound eanctly Ilk that which hit
fancy had conjured up for th unnat
ural shriek Of th dying dragon. Rod
erick had gradually whll h s friend
read brought h's chair around so that
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h at facing th door, at which h
now and then and muttering. HI
body rocked from ld to eld with a
genlls but uniform away. Th friend
began to read again, but had r.ot pro
ceeded much further In the tl wheu
he stopped, swars of a hollow. Me
tallic, clangorous yet muffled sound
a If a shield of bras had fallen upon
a floor of stiver. Redsrlek heran tit
apeak tn a low, gibbering murmur, a
sloklv smile quivered about hta lips,
shudders psssd over hts body.
Hear ft.- he ssld. "I hav heard
tt Umg long long! Winy minute,
many hours, many dan hav I heard
It yet I dared hot tell! Oh. bit ms.
miserable wretch that I am I dared
loot I dared not speak. W have out
her tn a living tomb, said 1 not that
my sense were arutet I will now 111
ynu that f heard he first, feeble stir
rings In her hollow coffin. I heard
thm many days go yet I dared not
tell! I dared not sneak! And now lo-
Wilght Ethelred hs, ha the deetn
cry of the dragon and ths clangor of
the sh'eld! Pay rather the rending
of her coffin snd the grating of the
Iron hinges, erf her prison, and her
struggles within the, copper nreheay
of th vsnlt - 8hs is sven now hurry.
Ing to upbraid me with my haste In
plscing her tn a tomb.'4- Hs sprang
furiously to his feet and cried out
with sa effort ss if he wer giving
up his soul: "Madam! I tell you th
stands now without that doori
The ik. issues ( ta ae
.Vt wv tl.fi ftB"" .l.tasai
tkaniaaaaai kawa ipa u laatart. ln
naan rg rjt aa tkat C)l tt; kt M
aaaaaa aai tt tkrr kka agaaaj a .
mo It) aaaaa garfki kpaO. Aa tkata.
altaaT taaat aa D-adarvck ka4 aw.
vaa tk tbraaaaal (aarak af taa LaWj
ttaaauaa. Thark 114 mpm kar
vklta rba kk4 tk rl4 o tt k
kmc, atmgg.a tr mmlt fTtsr,
tk null la which kkk tiki kaatj au-wtti-y
pifi kttT akiia Ik cata
laptlr atata fcy kar kratkar kk4 k
frwk4-
rr tkatanl aha) tao4 Itaaibrtig
kk4 rMa t kn4 fr ! tka
Iferaahotal ei tha roaeta, and tkanv -wttk
g lew. naatitrg try- tkrajar karaalf
upom hat brvtkar. Ha fall M tka tT
la hr tmbnrr fall daad IhrwugS
tha horrof of Ua tklng. W tlm of th
tor h had anttcljatad. Ukdy Mad
aUk. shkuata4 br Xruggt to
fra karaalf from that Tl. fall bo
atat btM ta k kal aik-kkla.
rrnra th trrr el that rtambor
and that houa th frtand Mad. aghaat
HI mind had bean o worked upon
by th aart.lallona akd horrora which
ha had ndgr4 whlla ha had baan
gaaat l th Houa f I'ahar thkt h
waa Incapable of regarding gnythtng
In k practical aad eatural light The
tnran wm etiU abrmad la Ita wrath,
ha foand. aa ha crnaatd th cuaky
Dut auddenly a wild, red ihkft ef
light elvao along th path, kad he
turned t tha eource whence a
gleam an unuauaj could have laaued
from the vaat houaa and Ua ahkdowa
which were alone behind him.
The radlanre came from . a fuU.
brood-red and eetttng moon, whl. h
baii now broken through the flauda.
or at IQ fur a to h ba'ow thalr
cannpy" Ihd tt arinha throng -tht
rtft la tha front of th manalon which
ha had noticed upon Ma arriral
klmoet Imperceptible, hot eB'endtng
In a lf kl ln from roof to founda
tion. Tha rtft had enlarge. rtt.
he watched. It grew atllt wider. Thare
came a mighty gnat of wind, and th
grat blood-red orb of the moon buret
full upen hie eight. Ilia brain reeled
aa ha aaw th walla of tha building
ruahltig aaundcr. There waa a feat,
prolonged, tumuttuoua ehoutlng. Ilk
th voice of a thouaand water and
the dep. dark tarn at hi feet elon d
auUcnly over th frafmenU of the
Houaa of taker
NEXT WEEK'S OXE-PAC.K CTA-
mc vii,ii nr "RAXDronn asv
l JIKRTOX." BY THOM.V8 DAY.
Getting Merrtcsl by Coan-eaoocVoce.
Mrs. liessts Cooper Cunay polnu
out th road some Reople travel lo
reach th marriage slate, ln Th
Housekeeper for June,
Uentleman, it. In business, with
many first-class credentlels. educated,
Scotch, ready conversationalist. Pres
byterian but liberal minded, wishes
matrimonial correspondencs with an
intelligent domesticated woman with
aitni mean from 41 to 10.
The above Is Just a little asm pie ot
th male advertisements. Not in ons
Instancs did I find a man who had
money looking for a wtfs. Thsy wsr
all worklngmen, or men of brains
who had mad a failure of lit or bad
soma prelect that required a little
money
1 followed out for two years ths
lives of soms of my correspondents.
One man who was finally arrsstsd In
Nsw York, had married several wo
men of "meana" and had lived with
them long enough to either get what
they had or find out that they were
too. smart to 1st him get their money
Then he left them. Several of the wo
men had represented they had meant
ln order to get married, and when the
man found out he could get nothing
but a woman, he simply hied out and
left them.
I followed ths lives of four msn
who hsd married women this way and
had Been their faith abussd. their
lives ruined by finding out that they
hsd married women ot no virtue or
honesty. And 1 followed and found
some of the most corc4ete and happy
live anyone could find. Bui oh, th
possibilities of evil In this - "modern
method." Even at Its best. It cheapens
the eacredness of the itnarrtags tls.
and must depreciate th bom. And
anything that hurt or In way injures
the home of the Anrssrtcan people
strtks at th root of lh national four,
datton. Ons thing tn honesty I must
say : Ths large Increase f -foreign
population In the north, northwest and
west Is responsible for a great deal of
this method.
After my experience, th racv tns
Mrs. Bella Qunness was abl to lurs
so many men to thslr dsatn oia
surprise ms, for th way men tsks
what a woman ay and blta all
he states without trying to find out
the truth Is simply appalling. "
many men believe that a woman
Just a sort of angel, others irons
hs no good ta her. But whit there
are trusting women who put their llvet
In the hands of msn without Investi
gating, they are not so many a msn.
Just to ses how far a man would f
I asked a man to cams to $ m J
certain date. After but tew letters had
passed between us. and without ln th
very least trying to find out mnythlnf
about ms, knowing nothing of ms but
what I had told htm, to my Infln ts
surprise h cam four hundred mil'
to see m. I then thought it was
best to rest from my Investigation.
Acts nsw of Today.
Ilsl Ferguson nam I
Hps of every stage-struck gift the
mtdsummsr day, and her story, tt
told In Human Uf for July,; 1 t
of th most Interesting that ha ' ap
peared In th series entitled "Actrftset
ot Today."
' Of all th apparently sudden ft
to fame, her was th mint spectacu
lar. W say apparently, because rise
on any nlne of llf are never rea.ir ,
sudden. Th publlo know nothlM
of th years ot premutation. Thsy ses
only th finish of th rise. All
Is msds very clear In th MBii
atory of Miss Fsrguson' Ufa. tsrttnl
with ths tlms when, at her father
death, ih found herself without
money or Influential friends aJ
obliged to face this much-abused old
world and earn its buffets or reward
Her fivnlly. In solemn conclave, "
cldsd thst th should bcom
school-ma'am. So thev bundled '
off to a Normal School. But ni"
her Fat gavs a new shuffls to tn
cards, and dealt th llttl mbry H"!
whoa whol soul avsn then wis
wrapped up In ths tnlmle world be
hind the footlights, a trump hsnti
What followed was all very unuiuij
and romantic, and seem to dovati
fittingly Into the kaleldoecop"
changes of her professional Ufa. . ,
Miss Ferguson's philosophy
clothe Is so stmpls and so pmetlc"
as to fit perfectly the reeds of tns
everydsy women, even though stars
re enppoeed to b garbed far
the height to which ordinary mortaa
may aipir.
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