The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886Various
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The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886
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New England -- Periodicals
We laid him on the table, unconscious. His right arm was shattered
midway between the shoulder and elbow. I thought he had fainted from
loss of blood, but the next moment I saw plainly enough that he was
dead.
A shell had exploded near him, and sent a large fragment clear through
his lungs and heart, killing him instantly.
I looked in his calm, white face. It was Charley Reck.
When we were safely at anchor, out of reach of the guns, I thought of
the package for Louise which he had left in my care. It was not sealed,
but simply tied, and the captain said, in view of the relation which he
and Charley had sustained to each other, he would take the
responsibility of opening it, and ascertaining its contents before it
should be delivered. There was an ambrotype of the sweet young girl, and
a letter written in French, breathing all the devotion of a true and
faithful heart. The following is a correct translation of its closing
sentences: "Good by, Louise! My darling! My own one! When this reaches
you, I shall be in the grave, but we shall meet again, and love each
other forever. Adieu, my love! I kiss you for the last time!" On the
glass, covering the picture, was plainly visible the print of his ardent
lips, so soon to be chilled in death.
There were hair-breadth escapes on board the "Albatross" that night, but
not another man was killed or wounded.
Many will regard this singular presentiment and its literal fulfilment
as merely a remarkable coincidence. I have stated only the simple facts
in the case, as they occurred under my own observation; and to me, at
least, they furnish additional evidence that "there are more things in
heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy."
LUCY KEYES.
A STORY OF MOUNT WACHUSETT.
BY A. P. MARBLE.
I.
Lucy Keyes was the daughter of Robert Keyes, who lived in the town of
Princeton, in Massachusetts, about the year 1755. At the age of two and
a half or three years, she disappeared one night at sunset, and was
never afterwards heard of by her parents. Her father spent the greater
part of his life in a fruitless search for her among the various tribes
of Indians; and her mother lost her reason in the contemplation of the
unknown fate which had befallen her little daughter. This is an account
of the little girl's disappearance, and the elucidation of a mystery
which, for three-quarters of a century, baffled all search. The story is
derived from traditions in the neighborhood, from allusions to Lucy in
the local histories, and from the dying statement of a chief actor in
the tragedy.
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