Show we r V how ho oi w to femoyer moles A ead 4 3 ka man n s hand J an extraordinary story of gross superstition and ignorant credulity has been communicated to the mere Merc london correspondent from lofthouse a small town I 1 in i n cleveland yorkshire E england since sha she attained manhood womanhood wc three jears since miss bliss sallie sallio booth has been recko reckoned ned the belle of the small town aad has been much courted and flattered by young men of her rank in life she was the daughter of a poor farmer fanner and had bad received a ver vor very vory primitive education she had gipsy looking black eyes aquiline aquil aqui lipe lve nose ose brilliant white teeth and small hands bub hub there were two moles boles mo learon ocher her upper lip from which coarse black haimson constantly sprung sprung many blany of herad herud her admirers affected to th see noena no ena end of beauty in these moles molest but spiteful girls spoke of sallie booths mustache and the irritated beauty tried all sorts of quack depilatories depilato ries to eradicate what she bhe thought facial blemishes meanwhile miss booth captured an aristocratic lov iov lover er ile he was a son of ot captain wharton of shelton castle castie asne and had bad acquired an unenviable enviable reputation school for irregularities of a dissolute type farmer booth held a h farm under ca captain P tain aud and the bious young man thel enore eforo bad lad easy access 8 to 10 tho the girl gi rj whilo while the giris girls of the place grew green with envy when they saw sallie booth booch walking forth with the dau dan loser lover older people predicted that no po bood good would come of it captain NV wharton harton barton unavale angly remonstrated with his son and then warned parmer farmer booth of the unscrupulous character 01 0 his sons advances to tg sallie nuu but the farmer was as proud othe of the gon pon tion as his daughter and openly boasted of his future son in la law iiii iiri n theale the alehouses ale aie houses of the place before long the intimacy between the pair exceeded proper limits limit A importuned importuner harry to mairy her tho the request did not thee lle ile lie ax pecked enthusiasm ye yet hot hol e languid ly y said bald he had no ap to marrying her if t those ll horrid florrid orrid moles nibles were removed from her lip in i the spring and heyday hey day dav of their he had pronounced jounced them pretty now their reni roni removal oval was a sonequa st ne qua non pon to mairim matrimony i five and twenty t y miles from latt house at a asmal smail small smal named seamer thee thero ie resides liles illes an old woman purported to po s sa kuppr natural powers always exercised ed however for beneficent end eld to old nanny hunten Hunt ert mis booth proceeded and su submitted bitted her jease after reli rell retiring ring for player and pend meditation the sibyl informed berthat ehat that ther there ewas was but one way io lo obliterate the tho moles and that was by touching a them with a dead ma mana mans hand at rt midnight in a dark room the hand alid to be held feld in contact walf with tho the lips until it grew warm itwara iwas a crucial operation yet revolting ting fing as lowas it was sallie resolved to ego ago go through tigh 10 it at the first opportunity it vias lias was some weeks before a dead man turned up to be experimented I 1 on by bliss miss booth but on the last night of june the body of a seaman was washed ashore opposite the ole alum works and the corpse was conveyed to the stable of a neighboring public house up until the inquest sallio sallie at dt once proceeded to the inn and acquainted tile the old hostler with the story of her moles and the seamer wise wo mans prescriptions offering him half a sovereign to aid and abet her in applying the swollen flabby hands of the unknown corpse to her face when midnight came carne she was albold as a she sho lion llon said bob fugget tho the in telling the story afterwards sho sho she went right into the deep dark darkness lessof bof the stable and I 1 heard her rustling among tho the straw as slie sile shep roped groped for tho the dead mans albod feeling queer like ilke outside tho the door it might have been div nive five 0 or it might have been ten minutes es when she guv such a screech as might ha bay wakened tho the dead then 8 she b e yell yell yelled like a locomotive wms bustle tle tie and I 1 took tooh to my heels beels and ran 1 l landlord coulson and his patrons listened with awo and amazement to tho osti ceis cris story alid and proceeded to tho the with a cantera lan ian teru tera tho the corr corp corpo 0 o sat bolt upright white liko as a new now scalded pig and sally booth held on to his shoulders giggling lin and grinning and laughing the spee spec tatora gators were pierced with horror 1 but as they stood moti onles aud and silent and saw baw tho girl embrace the tho climmy clammy corpse anu ana cry try Is kiss kirs irs I 1 t I 1 rile nie lka ika barry harry ry daru darling the hda eda fia moles oles oies are gone gon donethey ethey ev became satisfied that they s saw w before the them m m misfortune Is fortuno fortune that had bad merged into madness when the landl landlord ord approached pro ached to take her away she bhe dropped down don with a piercing shriek and swooned away she was carried home by four menon the be stable door and almost as soon as she reached her fathers b house hoube ouge the pangs of premature labor supervened The waif was wag never conscious of exist ence and the poor young mother was removed during the I 1 latter atter pa part of august last i to york asylum hopelessly insane ev exl |