Show AFTER SLEEP OF CENTURIES ecclesiastic may de be said to have hava returned to earth for fop it A few 13 rief moments there win wai a little gathering in the tha green graveyard of in an old priory church there was the rector and tin an old antiquary in ili rusty black a few neighboring squires the county police sergeant tile the sexton find and a laborer ar or two while an ancient stone coffin re bently unearthed lay on the ground who do you suppose it Is professor i inquired the alie rector the old roan mail irs in black polished MR g lasses glasses and adjusted them carefully it must be thomas Dell he said thomaa who was waa prior here in the time of henry glenry about 1220 but we n shall hall see A hush bush fell on the glup as the men wet et to work with hammer and chisel all ready the sexton rexton reported presently they took off their hats and the pollee policeman ninn removed hl helmet the ponderous lid was slowly pushed aside and thoy they were gazing at the calm trong strong face of an all ecclesiastic in rich alk vestments ments wrapped in I 1 its his years r sleep 1 beep tea ye its thomas 11 professor with the air of one lecog n zing an an old friend very like the contemporary portrait alt on tile the vellum As aa they hey continued to gaze spellbound a weird thing happened the vestments gradually lost their coloring and fin then fill all that the coflin contained crumbled before their eyes to a mere handful of ashes dust to dust whispered the rector very subdued and silent the little company disper dispersed Red london times |