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swoons, now claimed his lordship’s 
affections, and while those were ad- 
ministered, the dog again left the 
chamber. <A short time after this 
he was heard to bark aloud, then 
ery; accompanied by a noise as if 
something heavy was drawn along 
the floor. 
On going once more into the clo- 
set, his lordship found the dog try- 
ing to bring forward the sack which 
had been seen lying on the steps 
near the trap door. The animal re- 
newed his exertions at the sight of | 
his master, but, being again ex- 
haused, both by the labour and the 
loss of blood, he rested his head 
and his feet on the mouth of the 
sack. 
Excited by this new mystery, 
Jord C. now assisted the poor dog 
in his labour, and though that la-— 
bour was not light, curiosity and 
apprehension of “discovering some- 
thing extraordinary on the: part of 
his lordship, and an unabating pere 
severance on that. of the dog, to ac- 
complish his purpose, gave 
strength to bring, at length, the 
sack from the closet to the cham- 
ber. 
The servant was somewhat re- 
stored to himself as the sack was 
dragged into the room, but every 
other person who, in the beginning 
of the alarm, had rushed into the 
apartment, had now disappeared. 
The opening of the sack surpassed 
ali that human language can convey 
of human horror. 
As his lordship loosened the cord 
which fastened the sack’s mouth, 
the dog fixed his eyes on it, stood 
oyer it with wild and trembling ea- 
gerness, as if ready to sieze and de- 
your the contents. 
The contents appeared, and the 
extreme of horror was displayed. 
1 
them. 
An human body, ‘as if murdered iv 
bed, being covered only with a 
bloody shirt, and that clotted and 
still damp, as if recently shed ; the 
head severed from the shoulders, and — 
the other members mangled and se- 
parated, so as to make the trunk 
and extremities lie in the sack, was 
now exposed to view. 
The dog smelt the blood, and af- 
ter surveying the corpse, looked pi- 
teausly at his master, and licked his 
hands ! 
Jf, my friend, this faithful crea- 
ture had been "endowed with the, 
privileges allowed to man—if speech 
had been bestowed for a few mi- _ 
nutes only, this poor—this lately — 
proscribed — this condemned ani- | 
mal—this offender, and outcast, — 
flying from death, would have re- 
lated his history of the murdered 
man; and all. that. produced the 
mysterious behaviour which led to 
*the discovery. * 
He would -have explained, also, 
the narrative of his own love, fears, 
and terrors, all of which’ he would 
have brought Home to the business 
and bosom of his master. He would 
have stated, what alterwatds proved, 
that a traveller had really been mur- 
dered two nights before his lord’s 
arrival at that haunt of infamy ; and 
that the ofience was’ committed in 
the very chamber, and, probably, 
in the very bed wherein his lordship 
had. lodged; and to prevent his re- - 
maining in which, so many vain at- 
tempts and warnings had beem made 
and given. 
He would have accounted for the 
generous rage with which he as- 
sailed? the maid servant, who was an » 
accomplice in the guilt; and he 
woud have related the cause of 
placing himself as a volunteer cen- 
try at the door of the common sit- 
fing 
