in bed and saw _her_--the terrible girl! She was standing at the foot of
the bed looking at me, and pointing to something that lay upon the
floor. I looked and saw--there it is yet!--the dead woman, with the dead
babe on her bosom! I shrieked aloud, for I knew the woman was myself,
and the babe was my own! And as I shrieked, she vanished, as she always
does; but the dead woman and child remained! And there they are yet! Oh!
cover them over, Philip! cover them over! Cover them from my sight, for
I have no power to withdraw my eyes from them,' she exclaimed in wild
excitement.

"Almost beside himself with distress, Philip Dubarry seized a large
table cover and threw it down over the spot upon which her eyes were
fixed.

"'Ah! it is of no use! it is of no use! I see them still! they rise
above the covering! they lie upon it!' she cried, in terrific emotion,
shaking as if with an ague fit.

"'Lie down,' said Philip Dubarry, compelling himself to be calm, for the
sake of trying to calm her. And he took her and laid her back upon the
pillow. But still she raved, like one in high fever and delirium.

"'I have received my sentence! I am doomed! I am doomed! I have seen my
own corpse, and the corpse of my child!' she cried. And then a violent
convulsion seized her.

"Nearly maddened by terror and despair, Philip Dubarry rushed from the
room and loudly called for assistance. The chamber was soon filled with
the members of the household, not one of whom knew what to do, until the
entrance of the old housekeeper, who sent everybody out, and requested
Mr. Dubarry to dispatch a carriage for the family physician.

"Before morning the doctor arrived. But the convulsions and the delirium
of the lady increased in violence until just at the dawn of day, when
she gave birth to an infant boy, who breathed and died.

"Then, just before her own death, she recovered her senses and grew very
calm. She asked to see her child. When the nurse brought it, she kissed
its cold face, and bade her lay it by her side. Then the lady called her
husband, and whispered so faintly that he had to lean his ear to her
lips to hear her words. She said:

"'The vision is realized in the dead mother and the dead babe! But,
Philip! _for whose sin do we die?_'

"Before he could make a reply, if any reply had been possible, she was
gone.

"The mother and babe were buried together. The company at Shut-up
Dubarry broke up in the greatest consternation. The