The Haunted Man.

PART I.

lH j FIRST PHANTOM. Itad seen it often enough, and I jto know. So ought the three- Iv beer, in dirty high-lows, swmg "htf over the railing, or execut \ilowci\m*v onthedooTStev> *M the butcher, although butchers eencal thing are scornful of such 1 so ought the postman, to whom Jw the most extravagant dcs- Sawere merely human weak &t were to be pitied and used. J!,Tught,fbr the matter of that, MtJeßit *as such a knocker- A JTttt-Wagant. and utterly mcompre ie taocker. A knocker so Sff-iJ)-. icious *¥ ,P? hce" A^^h, first coming upon it, felt m v , take it instantly in custody, Lp.6_.sed with his professional ■^iact bysharply and sternly noting in £jj eye that admitted of no non &U confidently expected to detect ki«t yet. An ugly knocker—a Utkersithahard human face that Jitypeof the harder human face g; 8-BPian face that held between f lW i a brazen rod. So hereafter, lie mysterious future, should be & &c. fttif tbe knocker had a fierce human sect in the glare of day you should trtseen it at night, when it peered gathering shadows and sug ijjjn ambushed figure; when the i^the street lamps fell upon it and of sinister expression in |hard outlines; when it seemed to b| meaningly at a shrouded figure night fell darkly, crept up iittpsand passed into the mysterious jot; when the swinging door dis &ja black passage into which the pscenied to lose itself and become 0 the mysterious gloom; when grew boisterous and the fierce i made furious charges at the. jfaas if tp wrench it off and carry if.? in triumph. Such a night as I Ins a wild and pitiless wind. A i&ia. had commenced life as a pa country zephyr, but wandering ia§ manufacturing towns had be ta demoralised, and reaching the i\U plunged, into extravagant dis band wild excesses, Aroystenng Bliiut indulged in Bacchanalian teonthestreet corners, that knocked il__»ts from the heads of helpless ptogers, and then fulfilled its duties Reding away, like all young pre till. !o sea. Ht sat alone in a gloomy library •sfflta' to the wind that roared in icdiißUJey, -Aroundhim novels and \ *_%>]{_ were strewn thickly; in his! ■f. held one with its -pages freshly ?.ißd turned the leaves wearily until 2(I") tested upon a portrait in its W'spiece. And as the wind howled k 2Qie fiercely, and the darkness raottt Jell blacker, a strange and m -likeness to that portrait ap- Nateye his chair and leaned upon a shoulder.* The Haunted Man Njt the portrait and sighed. The Wed at the portrait and sighed /Hw again?' said the Haunted h .fore again,' it repeated in a low Mother novel?' 'Another novel.' jje old story?' ,J* old story.' j, h«ea,child,' said the Haunted J^Pang from the pages of the book "atbefirej « a mo st unnatural child J model infant. It is prematurely Philosophic; it dies in poverty «w music; it dies surrounded by JJ9 to slow music ; it dies with an Janimem of golden water and bit ! CaitS sow mus,c' Previous t ill _? P " makes a wiU 5 U re P eats lA» 4 rayer > h kisses *c " boofer 7j T^t child ' I ? BW-V said the phantom. j !ee a good woman—undersized. jeve^ charming women, but 2*r They are ka f ■ lmbecile and idiotic but ■W ascinatlQg and undersized. ICTt2 u.ttish. capsandaProns- S_ feminme virtue is in fei lbeowthe medium height and VlfiLf^ and bfantioe !J le,Bine., b proud, and wicked stalI J and'(i lleenly- I » ■*taS Uproud« and wicked women ™*™™»—' hands Phantom, wring e several things continually H itjJt.. l observe that whenever "l-nttphan a murder * or death is n ,tl-ere is something in 1? locality, in the at l**a _„' toreshadowsandsuggests ■»ttWu nee- I cannot say that B :a^ noticedit--the per ,To^SS fa(Jbelon^— w- »Ma the phantom. ■ ■ ■ - " >._.--■:.

The Haunted Man continued, in a despairing tone: —

11 see the influence of this in the magazines and daily papers; I see weak imitators rise up and enfeeble the world with senseless formula. I am getting tired of it. It won't do, Charles! it won't do,' and the Haunted Man buried hands his head in his hands and groaned. The figure looked down upon him sternly ; the portrait in the frontispiece frowned as he gazed. • Wretched man,' said the phantom, • and how have these things affected you?' *■ Once I laughed and cried, but then I was younger. Now I would forget them if I could.' ' Have then your wish ; and take this with you, man whom I renounce. From this day henceforth you shall live with those whom I displace. Without forgetting me 'twill be your lot to walk through life as if we had not met. But first you shall survey these scenes that henceforth must be yours. At one to night prepare to meet the phantom I have raised. Farewell!'. • The sound of its voice seemed to fade away with the dying wind and the Haunted Man was alone. But the firelight flickered gaily, and the light danced on the walls, making grotesque figures of the furniture. \ Ha, ha 1' said the Haunted Man, rubbing his hands gleefully ; ' now for a whisky punch and a cigar.' BOOK 11, THE SECOND PHANTOM. One ! The stroke of the far-off bell had hardly died before the front door closed with a reverberating clang. Steps were heard along the passage ; the library door swung open of itself, and the Knocker—yes, the Knocker— slowly strode into the room. The Haunted Man rubbed his eyes—no! there could be no mistake about it—it was the Knocker's face, mounted on a misty, almost imperceptible body. The brazen rod was transferred from its mouth to its right hand, where it was held like a ghostly truncheon. ' It's a cold evening,' said the Haun ted Man. ... *■ It is,' said the Goblin, in a hard, metallic voice. 'It must be pretty cold out there,' said the Haunted Man, with vague politeness. 'Do you ever —will you —take some hot water and brandy?' 1 No,' said the Goblin. 'Perhaps you'd like it cold, by way of change?' continued the Haunted Man, correcting himself, as he remem bered the peculiar temperature, with which the Goblin was probably familiar. ' Time flies.' said the Goblin, coldly. 'We have no leisure for. idle talk. Come!'' He moved his ghostly truncheon to ! ward -the wiuow and laid his hand upon the other's arm. At his touch the body of the Haun ted.Man seemed to.become as ihm and incorporeal as that of the Gobiin him self, and together they glided out of the window intc the black and blowy night. In the rapidity of their flight the senses of the Haunted Man seemed to leave him. At length they stopped suddenly. 'What do you see?' asked the Goblin. ( I see a battlemented mediaeval castle. Gallant men in mail ride over the drawbridge, and kiss their gauntleted fingers to fair ladies, who wave their lily hands in return. I see fight and fray and tournament. I hear roaring heralds bawling the charms of delicate women and shamelessly proclaiming their lovers. Stay. I see a Jewess about to leap from the battlement. I see knightly deeds, violence, rapine, and a good deal of blood. I've seen pretty much the same at Astley's.' . Look again.'

' I see purple moors, glens, mascu line women, bare-legged men, priggish bookworms, more violence, physical excellence, and blood. Always blood —and the superiority of physical at tainments.' . .

'And how do you feel now?' said the Goblin.

The Haunted Man shrugged his shoulders.

'None the better for being carried back and asked to sympathise with a barbarous age.'

The Goblin smiled and clutched his arm ; they again sped rapidly through the black night and again halted. ' What do you see ?' said the Goblin.

' I see a barrack-room, with a mess table, and a group of intoxicated Celtic officers, telling funny stories and giving challenges to duel. I see a young Irish gentleman capable of per forming prodigies of valour. I learn incidently that the acme of all heroism is the coronetcy of a dragoon regiment. I hear a good deal of French ! No, thank you,' said the Haunted Man, hurriedly, as he stayed the waving hand of the Goblin • 'I would, rather not go to the Peninsula, and don't care to have a private inter view with Napoleon.'

Again the Goblin flew away with the unfortunate man, and from a strange roaring below them he judged they were above the!ocean. A ship hove in sight and the Goblin stayed its flight.

' Look !' he said, squeezing his com panion's arm.

The Haunted Man yawned. ' Don't you think, Charles, you're rather running this think into ground ? Of course it's very moral and instructive, and all that. But aint there a little too much pantomime about it? Come now !'

' Look !' repeated the Goblin, pinch ing his arm malevolently.

The Haunted Man groaned.

' Oh, of course, I see her Majesty's ship Arethusa. Of course lam fami liar with her stern First Lieutenant, her eccentric Captain, her one fascinating and several mischievous midshipmen. Of course I know it's a splendid thing to see all this and not be sea-sick. Oh, there the young gentlemen are going to play a trick on the purser. For God's sake, let us go,' and the unhappy man absolutely dragged the Goblin away with him.

When they next halted it was at the edge of a broad and boundless prairie, in the middle of an oak opening.

}■ I see,' said the Haunted Man, with out waiting for his cue, but mechanic ally, and as if he were repeating a lesson which the Goblin had taught him, • I see the Noble Savage. He is very fine to look at! But I observe under his war-paint, feathers, and picturesque blanket, dirt, disease, and an unsymmetrical contour. I observe beneath his inflated rhetoric, deceit, and hypocrisy; beneath his physical hardihood, cruelty, malice, and revenge. The Noble Savage is a humbug. I re marked the same to Mr Catlin.'

'Come,' said the phantom. The Haunted Man sighed, and took out his watch.

'Couldn't we do the rest of this another time ?'

' My hour is almost spent, irreverent being, but there is yet a chance for your reformation. Come !' Again they sped through the night, and again halted. The sound of de licious but melancholy music fell upon their ears.

' 1 see,' said the Haunted Man, with something of interest in his manner, ' I see an aid moss-coveted manse beside a sluggish, flu wing river. I see weird shapes: witches, Puritans, clergymen, little children, judges, mesmerised maidens, moving to the sound of melody that thrills me with its sweetness and purity. Bui, although carried along its current, the shapes are strange and irightfnl; an eating lichen gnaws at the heart of each. Not only the clergymen, but witch maiden, judge, and Puritan, aU wear Scarlet Letters of some kind burned upon their hearts. lam fas cinated and thriiied, but 1 feel a mor bid sensitiveness creeping over me. I— I beg y our pardon.' ■ T'he''Goblin was yawning frigh..fu!ly. ' Wi.ll, perhaps we. nan better go.' 'One more," atig the last,' said the | Gobiin. They were moviftg home. Streaks of red; we*_e beginning to appear in the eastern sky. Along the banks of the blackly flowing river, by moorland and stagnant fens, by low houses, clustering close to the water's edge, like strange mollusks, crawled upon the beach to dry; by misty black barges, the more misty and indistinct seen through its mysterious veil, the river fog was slowly rising. So rolled away and rose from the heart of the Haunted Man, &c, &c. ' They stopped before a quaint man sion of red brick. The Goblin waved his hand without speaking. ' 1 see,' said the Haunted Man, ' a gay drawing-room. I see my old friends of the club, of the college, of. society, even as they lived and moved, I see the gallant and unselfish men whom I haveloved and the snobs whom I have hated. I see strangely mingling with them, and now and then blending with their forms, our old friends Steele, Addison, and Congreve. I observe, though, that these gentlemen have a habit of getting to much in the way. The royal standard of Queen Anne, not in itself a beautiful ornament, is rather too prominent in the picture. The long galleries of black oak, the formal furniture, the old portraits are picturesque, but depressing. 'The house is damp. I enjoy myself better here on the lawn, where they are getting up a Vanity. Fair. See, the bell rings, the curtain is rising, the puppets are brought out for a new play.

The Haunted Man was pressing forward in his eagerness, but the hand of the Goblin stayed him, and pointing to his feet, he saw between him and the rising curtain, a new made grave. And bending over the grave in paassionate grief, the Haunted Man beheld the phantom of the previous night.

The Haunted Man started, and— woke. The bright sunshine streamed into the room. The air was sparkling with frost. He ran joyously to the window and opened it. A small boy saluted him with 'Merry Christmas.' The Haunted Man instantly gave him

a Bank of England note. ** How much like Tiny Tim, Tom, and, Bobby that boy looked-—Bless my soul, what a genius this Dickens is !'

A knock at the door, and Boots entered.

"Consider your salary doubled instantly. Have you read ' David Copperfield ?'" * Yezzur.'

1 Your salary is quadrupled. What do you think of the" Old Curiosity Shop ? "'

The man instantly burst into a tor rent of tears, and then into a roar of laughter.

. Enough! Here are five thousand pounds. Open a porter-house, and call it • Our Mutual Friend.' Huzza ! I feel so happy 1' And the Haunted Man danced about the room.

And so, bathed in the light of that blessed sun, and yet glowing with the warmth of a good action, the Haunted Man, haunted no longer, save by those shapes which make the dreams of children beautiful, reseated himself in his chair, and finished 'Our Mutual Friend.'

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAB, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1887.

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