So now 'tis ended, like an old wife's story.
--WEBSTER.
Notwithstanding the obscurity which hung over the fate of Lady Rookwood, the celebration of the nuptials1 of Sir Ranulph and Eleanor was not long delayed; the ceremony took place at the parish church, and the worthy2 vicar officiated upon the occasion. It was a joyous3 sight to all who witnessed it, and not few were they who did so, for the whole neighborhood was bidden to the festival. The old avenue was thronged4 with bright and beaming faces, rustic5 maidens6 decked out in ribbons of many-colored splendor7, and stout8 youths in their best holiday trim; nor was the lusty yeoman and his buxom9 spouse--nor yet the patriarch of the village, nor prattling10 child, wanting. Even the ancestral rooks seemed to participate in the universal merriment, and returned, from their eyries, a hoarse11 greeting, like a lusty chorus of laughter, to the frolic train. The churchyard path was strewn with flowers--the church itself a complete garland. Never was there seen a blither wedding: the sun smiled upon the bride--accounted a fortunate omen12, as dark lowering skies and stormy weather had, within the memory of the oldest of the tenantry, inauspiciously ushered13 in all former espousals. The bride had recovered her bloom and beauty, while the melancholy14 which had seemingly settled for ever upon the open brow of the bridegroom, had now given place to a pensive15 shade that only added interest to his expressive16 features; and, as in simple state, after the completion of the sacred rites17, the youthful pair walked, arm in arm, amongst their thronging18 and admiring tenants19 towards the Hall, many a fervent20 prayer was breathed that the curse of the house of Rookwood might be averted21 from their heads; and, not to leave a doubt upon the subject, we can add that these aspirations22 were not in vain, but that the day, which dawned so brightly, was one of serene23 and unclouded happiness to its close.
After the ceremonial, the day was devoted24 to festivity. Crowded with company, from the ample hall to the kitchen ingle, the old mansion25 could scarce contain its numerous guests, while the walls resounded26 with hearty27 peals28 of laughter, to which they had been long unaccustomed. The tables groaned29 beneath the lordly baron31 of beef, the weighty chine, the castled pasty flanked on the one hand with neat's tongue, and on the other defended by a mountainous ham, an excellent piece de resistance, and every other substantial appliance of ancient hospitality. Barrels of mighty32 ale were broached33, and their nut-brown contents widely distributed, and the health of the bride and bridegroom was enthusiastically drunk in a brimming wassail cup of spicy34 wine with floating toast. Titus Tyrconnel acted as master of the ceremonies, and was, Mr. Coates declared, "quite in his element." So much was he elated, that he ventured to cut some of his old jokes upon the vicar, and, strange to say, without incurring35 the resentment36 of Small.
To retrace37 the darker course of our narrative38, we must state that some weeks before this happy event the remains39 of the unfortunate Sir Luke Rookwood had been gathered to those of his fathers. The document that attested40 his legitimacy41 being found upon his person, the claims denied to him in life were conceded in death; and he was interred42, with all the pomp and peculiar43 solemnity proper to one of the house, within the tomb of his ancestry45.
It was then that a discovery was made respecting Alan Rookwood, in order to explain which we must again revert46 to the night of the meditated47 enlevement of Eleanor.
After quitting his grandson in the avenue, Alan shaped his course among the fields in the direction to the church. He sought his own humble48, but now deserted49 dwelling50. The door had been forced; some of its meagre furniture was removed; and the dog, his sole companion, had fled. "Poor Mole51!" said he, "thou hast found, I trust, a better master." And having possessed52 himself of what he came in search--namely, a bunch of keys and his lantern, deposited in an out-of-the-way cupboard, that had escaped notice, he quickly departed.
He was once more within the churchyard; once more upon that awful stage whereon he had chosen to enact53, for a long season, his late fantastical character; and he gazed upon the church tower, glistening54 in the moonshine, the green and undulating hillocks, the "chequered cross-sticks," the clustered headstones, and the black and portentous55 yew56-trees, as upon "old familiar faces." He mused57, for a few moments, upon the scene, apparently58 with deep interest. He then walked beneath the shadows of one of the yews59, chanting an odd stanza60 or so of one of his wild staves, wrapped the while, it would seem, in affectionate contemplation of the subject-matter of his song:
THE CHURCHYARD YEW
---- Metuendaque succo
Taxus.
STATIUS.
As if from the dead its sap it drew;
Which some spirit of ill o'er a sepulchre flings:
Oh! a terrible tree is the churchyard yew;
Like it is nothing so grimly to view.
Yet this baleful tree hath a core so sound,
From it were fashioned brave English bows,
From the branch that hung o'er their fathers' graves;
Staunch at the heart is the churchyard yew.
His ditty concluded, Alan entered the churchyard, taking care to leave the door slightly ajar, in order to facilitate his grandson's entrance. For an instant he lingered in the chancel. The yellow moonlight fell upon the monuments of his race; and, directed by the instinct of hate, Alan's eye rested upon the gilded72 entablature of his perfidious73 brother, Reginald, and, muttering curses, "not loud but deep," he passed on. Having lighted his lantern in no tranquil74 mood, he descended75 into the vault76, observing a similar caution with respect to the portal of the cemetery77, which he left partially78 unclosed, with the key in the lock. Here he resolved to abide79 Luke's coming. The reader knows what probability there was of his expectations being realized.
For a while he paced the tomb, wrapped in gloomy meditation80, and pondering, it might be, upon the result of Luke's expedition, and the fulfilment of his own dark schemes, scowling81 from time to time beneath his bent82 eyebrows83, counting the grim array of coffins85, and noticing, with something like satisfaction, that the shell which contained the remains of his daughter had been restored to its former position. He then bethought him of Father Checkley's midnight intrusion upon his conference with Luke, and their apprehension86 of a supernatural visitation, and his curiosity was stimulated87 to ascertain88 by what means the priest had gained admission to the spot unperceived and unheard. He resolved to sound the floor, and see whether any secret entrance existed; and hollowly and dully did the hard flagging return the stroke of his heel as he pursued his scrutiny89. At length the metallic90 ringing of an iron plate, immediately behind the marble effigy91 of Sir Ranulph, resolved the point. There it was that the priest had found access to the vault; but Alan's disappointment was excessive, when he discovered that the plate was fastened on the underside, and all communication thence with the churchyard, or to wherever else it might conduct him, cut off: but the present was not the season for further investigation92, and tolerably pleased with the discovery he had already made, he returned to his silent march round the sepulchre.
At length a sound, like the sudden shutting of the church door, broke upon the profound stillness of the holy edifice93. In the hush94 that succeeded, a footstep was distinctly heard threading the aisle95.
"He comes--he comes!" exclaimed Alan, joyfully96; adding, an instant after, in an altered voice, "but he comes alone."
The footstep drew near to the mouth of the vault--it was upon the stairs. Alan stepped forward to greet, as he supposed, his grandson, but started back in astonishment97 and dismay as he encountered in his stead Lady Rookwood. Alan retreated, while the lady advanced, swinging the iron door after her, which closed with a tremendous clang. Approaching the statue of the first Sir Ranulph, she paused, and Alan then remarked the singular and terrible expression of her eyes, which appeared to be fixed98 upon the statue, or upon some invisible object near it. There was something in her whole attitude and manner calculated to impress the deepest terror on the beholder99. And Alan gazed upon her with an awe101 which momently increased. Lady Rookwood's bearing was as proud and erect102 as we have formerly103 described it to have been--her brow was haughtily104 bent--her chiselled105 lip as disdainfully curled; but the staring, changeless eye, and the deep-heaved sob106 which occasionally escaped her, betrayed how much she was under the influence of mortal terror. Alan watched her in amazement107. He knew not how the scene was likely to terminate, nor what could have induced her to visit this ghostly spot at such an hour, and alone; but he resolved to abide the issue in silence--profound as her own. After a time, however, his impatience108 got the better of his fears and scruples109, and he spoke110.
"Hast thou not beckoned113 me hither, and am I not come?" returned she, in a hollow tone. "And now thou asketh wherefore I am here--I am here because, as in thy life I feared thee not, neither in death do I fear thee. I am here because----"
"What seest thou?" interrupted Peter, with ill-suppressed terror.
"What see I--ha--ha!" shouted Lady Rookwood, amidst discordant114 laughter; "that which might appal115 a heart less stout than mine--a figure anguish-writhen, with veins116 that glow as with a subtle and consuming flame. A substance yet a shadow, in thy living likeness117. Ha--frown if thou wilt118; I can return thy glances."
"Where dost thou see this vision?" demanded Alan.
"Where!" echoed Lady Rookwood, becoming for the first time sensible of the presence of a stranger. "Ha--who are you that question me?--what are you?--speak!"
"Can you see nothing?"
"Nothing," replied Alan.
"Is it he?" asked Alan, drawing near her.
"It is," replied Lady Rookwood; "I have followed him hither, and I will follow him whithersoever he leads me, were it to----"
"What doth he now?" asked Alan; "do you see him still?"
"The figure points to that sarcophagus," returned Lady Rookwood--"can you raise up the lid?"
"No," replied Alan; "my strength will not avail to lift it."
"Yet let the trial be made," said Lady Rookwood; "the figure points there still--my own arm shall aid you."
Alan watched her in dumb wonder. She advanced towards the marble monument, and beckoned him to follow. He reluctantly complied. Without any expectation of being able to move the ponderous120 lid of the sarcophagus, at Lady Rookwood's renewed request he applied121 himself to the task. What was his surprise, when, beneath their united efforts, he found the ponderous slab122 slowly revolve123 upon its vast hinges, and, with little further difficulty, it was completely elevated; though it still required the exertion124 of all Alan's strength to prop44 it open, and prevent its falling back.
"What does it contain?" asked Lady Rookwood.
"A warrior's ashes," returned Alan.
"There is a rusty125 dagger126 upon a fold of faded linen127," cried Lady Rookwood, holding down the light.
"It is the weapon with which the first dame128 of the house of Rookwood was stabbed," said Alan, with a grim smile:
"Which whoso findeth in the tomb
And when 'tis grasped by hand of clay,
The curse of blood shall pass away.
So saith the rhyme. Have you seen enough?"
"No," said Lady Rookwood, precipitating130 herself into the marble coffin84. "That weapon shall be mine."
"I will have it, though I grasp it to eternity," shrieked132 Lady Rookwood, vainly endeavoring to wrest134 away the dagger, which was fastened, together with the linen upon which it lay, by some adhesive135 substance to the bottom of the shell.
At this moment Alan Rookwood happened to cast his eye upward, and he then beheld136 what filled him with new terror. The axe137 of the sable138 statue was poised139 above its head, as in the act to strike him. Some secret machinery140, it was evident, existed between the sarcophagus lid and this mysterious image. But in the first impulse of his alarm Alan abandoned his hold of the slab, and it sunk slowly downwards141. He uttered a loud cry as it moved. Lady Rookwood heard this cry. She raised herself at the same moment--the dagger was in her hand--she pressed it against the lid, but its downward force was too great to be withstood. The light was within the sarcophagus, and Alan could discern her features. The expression was terrible. She uttered one shriek133 and the lid closed for ever.
Alan was in total darkness. The light had been enclosed with Lady Rookwood. There was something so horrible in her probable fate, that even he shuddered142 as he thought upon it. Exerting all his remaining strength, he essayed to raise the lid, but now it was more firmly closed than ever. It defied all his power. Once, for an instant, he fancied that it yielded to his straining sinews, but it was only his hand that slided upon the surface of the marble. It was fixed--immovable. The sides and lid rang with the strokes which the unfortunate lady bestowed143 upon them with the dagger's point; but those sounds were not long heard. Presently all was still; the marble ceased to vibrate with her blows. Alan struck the lid with his knuckles144, but no response was returned. All was silent.
He now turned his attention to his own situation, which had become sufficiently145 alarming. An hour must have elapsed, yet Luke had not arrived. The door of the vault was closed--the key was in the lock, and on the outside. He was himself a prisoner within the tomb. What if Luke should not return? What if he were slain146, as it might chance, in the enterprise? That thought flashed across his brain like an electric shock. None knew of his retreat but his grandson. He might perish of famine within this desolate147 vault.
He checked this notion as soon as it was formed--it was too dreadful to be indulged in. A thousand circumstances might conspire148 to detain Luke. He was sure to come. Yet the solitude--the darkness was awful, almost intolerable. The dying and the dead were around him. He dared not stir.
Another hour--an age it seemed to him--had passed. Still Luke came not. Horrible forebodings crossed him; but he would not surrender himself to them. He rose, and crawled in the direction, as he supposed, of the door--fearful, even of the stealthy sound of his own footsteps. He reached it, and his heart once more throbbed149 with hope. He bent his ear to the key; he drew in his breath; he listened for some sound, but nothing was to be heard. A groan30 would have been almost music in his ears.
Another hour was gone! He was now a prey150 to the most frightful151 apprehensions152, agitated153 in turns by the wildest emotions of rage and terror. He at one moment imagined that Luke had abandoned him, and heaped curses upon his head; at the next, convinced that he had fallen, he bewailed with equal bitterness his grandson's fate and his own. He paced the tomb like one distracted; he stamped upon the iron plate; he smote154 with his hands upon the door; he shouted, and the vault hollowly echoed his lamentations. But Time's sand ran on, and Luke arrived not.
Alan now abandoned himself wholly to despair. He could no longer anticipate his grandson's coming, no longer hope for deliverance. His fate was sealed. Death awaited him. He must anticipate his slow but inevitable155 stroke, enduring all the grinding horrors of starvation. The contemplation of such an end was madness, but he was forced to contemplate156 it now; and so appalling157 did it appear to his imagination, that he half resolved to dash out his brains against the walls of the sepulchre, and put an end at once to his tortures; and nothing, except a doubt whether he might not, by imperfectly accomplishing his purpose, increase his own suffering, prevented him from putting this dreadful idea into execution. His dagger was gone, and he had no other weapon. Terrors of a new kind now assailed158 him. The dead, he fancied, were bursting from their coffins, and he peopled the darkness with grisly phantoms159. They were around about him on each side, whirling and rustling160, gibbering, groaning161, shrieking162, laughing, and lamenting163. He was stunned164, stifled165. The air seemed to grow suffocating166, pestilential; the wild laughter was redoubled; the horrible troop assailed him; they dragged him along the tomb, and amid their howls he fell, and became insensible.
When he returned to himself, it was some time before he could collect his scattered167 faculties168; and when the agonizing169 consciousness of his terrible situation forced itself upon his mind, he had nigh relapsed into oblivion. He arose. He rushed towards the door; he knocked against it with his knuckles till the blood streamed from them; he scratched against it with his nails till they were torn off by the roots. With insane fury he hurled170 himself against the iron frame; it was in vain. Again he had recourse to the trap-door. He searched for it; he found it. He laid himself upon the ground. There was no interval171 of space in which he could insert a finger's point. He beat it with his clenched172 hand; he tore it with his teeth; he jumped upon it; he smote it with his heel. The iron returned a sullen173 sound.
He again essayed the lid of the sarcophagus. Despair nerved his strength. He raised the slab a few inches. He shouted, screamed, but no answer was returned; and again the lid fell.
"She is dead!" cried Alan. "Why have I not shared her fate? But mine is to come. And such a death!--oh, oh!" And, frenzied174 at the thought, he again hurried to the door, and renewed his fruitless attempts to escape, till nature gave way, and he sank upon the floor, groaning and exhausted175.
Physical suffering now began to take the place of his mental tortures. Parched176 and consumed with a fierce internal fever, he was tormented177 by unappeasable thirst--of all human ills the most unendurable. His tongue was dry and dusty, his throat inflamed178; his lips had lost all moisture. He licked the humid floor; he sought to imbibe179 the nitrous drops from the walls; but, instead of allaying180 his thirst, they increased it. He would have given the world, had he possessed it, for a draught181 of cold spring-water. Oh, to have died with his lips upon some bubbling fountain's marge! But to perish thus----!
Nor were the pangs182 of hunger wanting. He had to endure all the horrors of famine, as well as the agonies of quenchless183 thirst.
In this dreadful state three days and nights passed over Alan's fated head. Nor night nor day had he. Time, with him, was only measured by its duration, and that seemed interminable. Each hour added to his suffering, and brought with it no relief. During this period of prolonged misery184 reason often tottered185 on her throne. Sometimes he was under the influence of the wildest passions. He dragged coffins from their recesses186, hurled them upon the ground, striving to break them open and drag forth their loathsome187 contents. Upon other occasions he would weep bitterly and wildly; and once--only once--did he attempt to pray; but he started from his knees with an echo of infernal laughter, as he deemed, ringing in his ears. Then, again, would he call down imprecations upon himself and his whole line, trampling188 upon the pile of coffins he had reared; and lastly, more subdued189, would creep to the boards that contained the body of his child, kissing them with a frantic190 outbreak of affection.
At length he became sensible of his approaching dissolution. To him the thought of death might well be terrible, but he quailed191 not before it, or rather seemed, in his latest moments, to resume all his wonted firmness of character. Gathering192 together his remaining strength, he dragged himself towards the niche193 wherein his brother, Sir Reginald Rookwood, was deposited, and placing his hand upon the coffin, solemnly exclaimed, "My curse--my dying curse--be upon thee evermore!"
Falling with his face upon the coffin, Alan instantly expired. In this attitude his remains were discovered.
L'ENVOY
Our tale is told. Yet, perhaps, we may be allowed to add a few words respecting two of the subordinate characters of our drama--melodrama we ought to say--namely Jerry Juniper and the knight194 of Malta. What became of the Caper195 Merchant's son after his flight from Kilburn Wells we have never been able distinctly to ascertain. Juniper, however, would seem to be a sort of Wandering Jew, for certain it is, that somebody very like him is extant still, and to be met with at Jerry's old haunts; indeed, we have no doubt of encountering him at the ensuing meetings of Ascot and Hampton.
As regards the knight of Malta--Knight of Roads--"Rhodes"--he should have been--we are sorry to state that the career of the Ruffler terminated in a madhouse, and thus the poor knight became in reality a Hospitaller! According to the custom observed in those establishments, the knight was deprived of his luxuriant locks, and the loss of his beard rendered his case incurable196; but, in the mean time, the barber of the place made his fortune by retailing197 the materials of all the black wigs198 he could collect to the impostor's dupes.
Such is the latest piece of intelligence that has reached us of the Arch-hoaxer of Canterbury!
Turpin--why disguise it?--was hanged at York in 1739. His firmness deserted him not at the last. When he mounted the fatal tree his left leg trembled; he stamped it impatiently down, and, after a brief chat with the hangman, threw himself suddenly and resolutely199 from the ladder. His sufferings would appear to have been slight: as he himself sang,
He died, not as other men, by degrees,
We may, in some other place, lay before the reader the particulars--and they are not incurious--of the "night before Larry was stretched."
The remains of the vagrant201 highwayman found a final resting-place in the desecrated202 churchyard of Saint George, without the Fishergate postern, a green and grassy203 cemetery, but withal a melancholy one. A few recent tombs mark out the spots where some of the victims of the pestilence204 of 1832-33 have been interred; but we have made vain search for Turpin's grave--unless--as is more than probable--the plain stone with the simple initials R. T. belongs to him.
The gyves by which he was fettered205 are still shown at York Castle, and are of prodigious206 weight and strength; and though the herculean robber is said to have moved in them with ease, the present turnkey was scarcely able to lift the ponderous irons. An old woman of the same city has a lock of hair, said to have been Turpin's, which she avouches her grandfather cut off from the body after the execution, and which the believers look upon with great reverence207. O rare Dick Turpin!
We shall, perhaps, be accused of dilating208 too much upon the character of the highwayman, and we plead guilty to the charge. But we found it impossible to avoid running a little into extremes. Our earliest associations are connected with sunny scenes in Cheshire, said to have been haunted by Turpin; and with one very dear to us--from whose lips, now, alas209! silent, we have listened to many stories of his exploits--he was a sort of hero. We have had a singular delight in recounting his feats210 and hairbreadth escapes; and if the reader derives211 only half as much pleasure from the perusal212 of his adventures as we have had in narrating213 them, our satisfaction will be complete. Perhaps, we may have placed him in too favorable a point of view--and yet we know not. As upon those of more important personages, many doubts rest upon his history. Such as we conceive him to have been, we have drawn214 him--hoping that the benevolent215 reader, upon finishing our Tale, will arrive at the same conclusion; and, in the words of the quaint216 old Prologue217 to the Prince of Prigs' Revels218,
------------Thank that man,
Can make each thief a complete Roscian!
The End
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quailed
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caper
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incurable
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