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Updated: June 6, 2025
In a moment the open river was full of logs jostling eagerly onward. Then suddenly, far out above the uneven tossing skyline of Superior, the strange northern "loom," or mirage, threw the specters of thousands of restless timbers rising and falling on the bosom of the lake. They stood and watched them go. "Oh, the great man! Oh, the great man!" murmured the writer, fascinated.
The stallions and stronger horses take possession of the shed, and the rest stand outside, huddled together. In severe winters, sickness and death overtake them, and those who survive, walk about like specters. But when they eat the young grass, which appears when the snow is melted, they are as wild and mischievous as ever.
They were more human than the dreadful specters that filled the place. Ah! the blessed, blessed light that flamed out from the merry pine-torch; he didn't wonder that half the Eastern world worshiped fire. He adored it blessed, blessed fire the sign of God, the beacon of the human. Hark! What half-human or rather wholly inhuman sounds are these that alternate in unearthly measure?
Two of these old specters totter away, with lighted tapers, to show the caverns of death as unconcerned as if they were immortal. They were used as burying-places for three hundred years; and, in one part, is a large pit full of skulls and bones, said to be the sad remains of a great mortality occasioned by a plague. In the rest, there is nothing but dust.
He groped his way somewhere into a dark close place; he found black-looking bread or, was it handed to him? He ate, threw himself down, thought of her! then ceased to think at all. The sword, his companions or specters no longer existed for him.
And then he kissed the grave and the flowers which covered it: "Don't you hear how the specters are kissing each other?" whispered one of the musketeers. "No doubt Lucifer is caressing them!" "And whither then have you removed Augustus Zwirina?" "Why, where he ought to be, of course!
The specters of conscience passed from her eyes; she no longer thought of death and judgment; and, under a pretense that her feelings could not bear the sight of her husband's bier, she determined to seclude herself in her own chamber, till the freshness of Wallace's grief for his friend should have passed away.
If the audience were specters, the performers moved, apparently without rhyme or reason, mere shadows on the dimly lighted stage; enacting some semblance to scenes of mortal life; their jests and gibes, unnatural in that comparatively empty place; their voices, out of the semi-darkness, like those of spirits rehearsing acts of long ago.
But I sez, "How different, Josiah, they are both murders." Sez Josiah, "I guess I'll go down to Grandpa Huff's room and borry the World." But I kep' thinkin' on't after he left about war and what it wuz. Rivers of human blood flowin' through ruined countries, follered by the horrible specters of pestilence, disease and famine, moral and financial ruin.
Dawn was breaking as we reached the summit and pausing for a moment's breath, we could see people with bundles hurrying from cottages and farm yards, while the fields seemed dotted with horses and carts that sprang out of the semi-darkness like specters, following one another to the highway. In less than no time the long caravan had re-formed and was again under way.
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