Show AN brosy some time aero tio writer visited prof gaillet Gail net of little rick rk and while sitting in the library in conversation with the entertaining gentleman observed A roll of manuscript tied with A ship of black cloth ve him ifft ware so designed publication tt wilt never be published he said and beg in to unroll it see how it end and pl anine at the bottom of thelast page me lead the following while he sat alone deeply mums mu ms a hearal parsed the houam and here the broke oft al or to tell us of the curious he fin illy con I 1 camo lo 10 arbanas when I 1 was a gouni man one I 1 sat in my library for a magazine I 1 w it in bood health and had bauo to elated the success I 1 had d by the of a small 01 ol but till I 1 felt the lieal of boh depression I 1 arole and out but soon re guined lot any change I 1 brnt tate work ol 01 writing a diem and hurp la gnp rapidity rapid iti until I 1 wrote A hearse pa sed the house nd here I 1 stopped A told me thal would finish thit sentence next d I 1 ta k up mv par to fini h it but I 1 bad biot li e imp t with the pen when a k riu cd me toa h mv ali aiom abb room ini in tin c to s a hoi at abird to a buff to caius tin A omin w s in bui binl I 1 rescued her I 1 ant lie ivay and devoted mi m i to m new frieml hip rw into live and rhen ollo pd ten 5 ears of h iciness I 1 did not tell my wife 0 the unfinished lut oneda she found it ind aced nus to it J alid not like ti confes s my and I 1 told hr thit I 1 wt ula iho after my wife bid bi d the story ind wj it over for J took up the dpn and was just in the act of touching the paper when in wita me I 1 ran to her and found her in i dying condition hain been attacked bj rheumatism of the heart Ha attempted ance to carh it ye after my wifred 1 cen for cirs I 1 one niklis in ho satorv went to the ek but had no sooner dipp d mv an in the room attric ny attrition burr in into ho loom I 1 found in son 4 ing on the floor dead he bad always been in wretched beaith and baid committed suicide expect to finish the story r expect to try acain it it im possible for me fen remain superstitious even though I 1 may have a powerful chua fin doina fro OF couise all alm nouh lia h ipp ned even if I 1 had not boirun tha etory I 1 think hat next ruady it I 1 shall df ato completion of the work for 1 desire to see it in print come up and see me start off we were bus when night cowardly cowa idly were not sorra that something kept us away early wednesday we hurried hou o for eim alio pro had lived tha hombre thought us taken his pen to finish the story and had fallen ded some time elapsed wo had the courage to knock at tin door at last we rapped no answer anoche rap with blood point and with hair shoved open the door old lean in back in his chair eating tiie come in he said cheerfully yon sec I 1 have just finished that story and it pave me an appetite for pie pies a thing to you finish up a storys but you want until you aro through v e asked when yow began to write well yes A calf over in the ald joining for while oh ot that yes you are I 1 told you some time ago why my deal fellow two EO foolish as tb ate married yaw tea borne apte |