| Show AFTER SLEEP OF CENTURIES ecclesiastic may be said to have R turned to earth for a few brief moments there was a little gathering la th green gravbard gr of an old priory church there w at alie rector anil an old antiquary in rusty black a few neighboring squires the county polac sergeant alie bexton and a laborer or two while an ancient stone coffin recently unearthed lay on the ground tio do ou suppose it Is p sor inquired lie rector the old roan in blacic polished hl r glasses and adjusted them carefully it must be thomas a h said thomas who was prior here in the time of henry III about 1220 hut we shall see A hush fell on the group as the men 4 set to vork hammer and chmael all ready the sexton re s presently they boob off their hats and the poll cemin removed his helmet th ponderous lid was slowly pushed aadi and they ere gazing at the calm strong face of an ecclesiastic in silk wrapped in ala ax j years sleep tes its thomas jurmu ed th professor with the air of one acu an old friend very like th contemporary portrait on the vellum i As they continued to anze bound a weird thing happened th v vestments gradually ira dually lost color ing and then all that the coffin con y talked crumbled before their to a feie meie handful of ashes dust to dust whispered the re tor veri and silent the ulal company dispersed bondon times |
