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Now I am to tell you of a thing that befell in the year 1665 of the Great Plague, when the hearts of certain amongst men, grown callous3 in wickedness upon that rebound4 from an inhuman5 austerity, were opened to the vision of a terror that moved and spoke6 not in the silent places of the fields. Forasmuch as, however, in the recovery from delirium7 a patient may marvel8 over the incredulity of neighbours who refuse to give credence9 to the presentments that have been ipso facto to him, so, the nation being sound again, and its constitution hale, I expect little but a laugh for my piety11 in relating of the following incident; which, nevertheless, is as essential true as that he who shall look through the knot-hole in the plank12 of a coffin13 shall acquire the evil eye.
For, indeed, in those days of a wild fear and confusion, when every condition that maketh for reason was set wandering by a devious14 path, and all men sitting as in a theatre of death looked to see the curtain rise upon God knows what horrors, it was vouchsafed15 to many to witness sights and sounds beyond the compass of Nature, and that as if the devil and his minions16 had profited by the anarchy17 to slip unobserved into the world. And I know that this is so, for all the insolence18 of a recovered scepticism; and, as to the unseen, we are like one that traverseth the dark with a lanthorn, himself the skipper of a little moving blot19 of light, but a positive mark for any secret foe20 without the circumference21 of its radiance.
Be that as it may, and whether it was our particular ill-fortune, or, as some asserted, our particular wickedness, that made of our village an inviting22 back-door of entrance to the Prince of Darkness, I know not; but so it is that disease and contagion23 are ever inclined to penetrate24 by way of flaws or humours where the veil of the flesh is already perforated, as a kite circleth round its quarry25, looking for the weak place to strike: and, without doubt, in that land of corruption26 we were a very foul27 blot indeed.
How this came about it were idle to speculate; yet no man shall have the hardihood to affirm that it was otherwise. Nor do I seek to extenuate28 myself, who was in truth no better than my neighbours in most that made us a community of drunkards and forswearers both lewd29 and abominable30. For in that village a depravity that was like madness had come to possess the heads of the people, and no man durst take his stand on honesty or even common decency31, for fear he should be set upon by his comrades and drummed out of his government on a pint32 pot. Yet for myself I will say was one only redeeming33 quality, and that was the pure love I bore to my solitary34 orphaned35 child, the little Margery.
Now, our Vicar—a patient and God-fearing man, for all his predial tithes36 were impropriated by his lord, that was an absentee and a sheriff in London—did little to stem that current of lewdness37 that had set in strong with the Restoration. And this was from no lack of virtue38 in himself, but rather from a natural invertebracy, as one may say, and an order of mind that, yet being no order, is made the sport of any sophister with a wit for paragram. Thus it always is that mere39 example is of little avail without precept,—of which, however, it is an important condition,—and that the successful directors of men be not those who go to the van and lead, unconscious of the gibes40 and mockery in their rear, but such rather as drive the mob before them with a smiting41 hand and no infirmity of purpose. So, if a certain affection for our pastor42 dwelt in our hearts, no title of respect was there to leaven43 it and justify44 his high office before Him that consigned45 the trust; and ever deeper and deeper we sank in the slough46 of corruption, until was brought about this pass—that naught47 but some scourging48 despotism of the Church should acquit49 us of the fate of Sodom. That such, at the eleventh hour, was vouchsafed us of God's mercy, it is my purpose to show; and, doubtless, this offering of a loop-hole was to account by reason of the devil's having debarked his reserves, as it were, in our port; and so quartering upon us a soldiery that we were, at no invitation of our own, to maintain, stood us a certain extenuation50.
It was late in the order of things before in our village so much as a rumour51 of the plague reached us. Newspapers were not in those days, and reports, being by word of mouth, travelled slowly, and were often spent bullets by the time they fell amongst us. Yet, by May, some gossip there was of the distemper having gotten a hold in certain quarters of London and increasing, and this alarmed our people, though it made no abatement52 of their profligacy53. But presently the reports coming thicker, with confirmation54 of the terror and panic that was enlarging on all sides, we must take measures for our safety; though into June and July, when the pestilence55 was raging, none infected had come our way, and that from our remote and isolated56 position. Yet it needs but fear for the crown to that wickedness that is self-indulgence; and forasmuch as this fear fattens57 like a toadstool on the decomposition58 it springs from, it grew with us to the proportions that we were set to kill or destroy any that should approach us from the stricken districts.
And then suddenly there appeared in our midst he that was appointed to be our scourge60 and our cautery.
Whence he came, or how, no man of us could say. Only one day we were a community of roysterers and scoffers, impious and abominable, and the next he was amongst us smiting and thundering.
Some would have it that he was an old collegiate of our Vicar's, but at last one of those wandering Dissenters61 that found never as now the times opportune62 to their teachings—a theory to which our minister's treatment of the stranger gave colour. For from the moment of his appearance he took the reins63 of government, as it were, appropriating the pulpit and launching his bolts therefrom, with the full consent and encouragement of the other. There were those, again, who were resolved that his commission was from a high place, whither news of our infamy64 had reached, and that we had best give him a respectful hearing, lest we should run a chance of having our hearing stopped altogether. A few were convinced he was no man at all, but rather a fiend sent to thresh us with the scourge of our own contriving65, that we might be tender, like steak, for the cooking; and yet other few regarded him with terror, as an actual figure or embodiment of the distemper.
But, generally, after the first surprise, the feeling of resentment10 at his intrusion woke and gained ground, and we were much put about that he should have thus assumed the pastorship66 without invitation, quartering with our Vicar; who kept himself aloof67 and was little seen, and seeking to drive us by terror, and amazement68, and a great menace of retribution. For, in truth, this was not the method to which we were wont69, and it both angered and disturbed us.
This feeling would have enlarged the sooner, perhaps, were it not for a certain restraining influence possessed70 of the new-comer, which neighboured him with darkness and mystery. For he was above the common tall, and ever appeared in public with a slouched hat, that concealed71 all the upper part of his face and showed little otherwise but the dense72 black beard that dropped upon his breast like a shadow.
Now with August came a fresh burst of panic, how the desolation increased and the land was overrun with swarms73 of infected persons seeking an asylum74 from the city; and our anger rose high against the stranger, who yet dwelt with us and encouraged the distemper of our minds by furious denunciations of our guilt75.
Thus far, for all the corruption of our hearts, we had maintained the practice of church-going, thinking, maybe, poor fools! to hoodwink the Almighty76 with a show of reverence77; but now, as by a common consent, we neglected the observances and loitered of a Sabbath in the fields, and thither78 at the last the strange man pursued us and ended the matter.
For so it fell that at the time of the harvest's ripening79 a goodish body of us males was gathered one Sunday for coolness about the neighbourhood of the dripping well, whose waters were a tradition, for they had long gone dry. This well was situate in a sort of cave or deep scoop80 at the foot of a cliff of limestone81, to which the cultivated ground that led up to it fell somewhat. High above, the cliff broke away into a wide stretch of pasture land, but the face of the rock itself was all patched with bramble and little starved birch-trees clutching for foothold; and in like manner the excavation82 beneath was half-stifled and gloomed over with undergrowth, so that it looked a place very dismal83 and uninviting, save in the ardour of the dog-days.
Within, where had been the basin, was a great shattered hole going down to unknown depths; and this no man had thought to explore, for a mystery held about the spot that was doubtless the foster-child of ignorance.
But to the front of the well and of the cliff stretched a noble field of corn, and this field was of an uncommon84 shape, being, roughly, a vast circle and a little one joined by a neck and in suggestion not unlike an hour-glass; and into the crop thereof, which was of goodly weight and condition, were the first sickles85 to be put on the morrow.
Now as we stood or lay around, idly discussing of the news, and congratulating ourselves that we were featly quit of our incubus86, to us along the meadow path, his shadow jumping on the corn, came the very subject of our gossip.
He strode up, looking neither to right nor left, and with the first word that fell, low and damnatory, from his lips, we knew that the moment had come when, whether for good or evil, he intended to cast us from him and acquit himself of further responsibility in our direction.
"Behold87!" he cried, pausing over against us, "I go from among ye! Behold, ye that have not obeyed nor inclined your ear, but have walked every one in the imagination of his evil heart! Saith the Lord, 'I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto Me, I will not hearken unto them.'"
His voice rang out, and a dark silence fell among us. It was pregnant, but with little of humility88. We had had enough of this interloper and his abuse. Then, like Jeremiah, he went to prophesy:—
"I read ye, men of Anathoth, and the murder in your hearts. Ye that have worshipped the shameful89 thing and burned incense90 to Baal—shall I cringe that ye devise against me, or not rather pray to the Lord of Hosts, 'Let me see Thy vengeance91 on them'? And He answereth, 'I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.'"
Now, though I was no participator in that direful thing that followed, I stood by, nor interfered92, and so must share the blame. For there were men risen all about, and their faces lowering, and it seemed that it would go hard with the stranger were he not more particular.
But he moved forward, with a stately and commanding gesture, and stood with his back to the well-scoop and threatened us and spoke.
"Lo!" he shrieked93, "your hour is upon you! Ye shall be mowed94 down like ripe corn, and the shadow of your name shall be swept from the earth! The glass of your iniquity95 is turned, and when its sand is run through, not a man of ye shall be!"
He raised his arm aloft, and in a moment he was overborne. Even then, as all say, none got sight of his face; but he fought with lowered head, and his black beard flapped like a wounded crow. But suddenly a boy-child ran forward of the bystanders, crying and screaming,—
"Hurt him not! They are hurting him—oh, me! oh, me!"
Then only I know of the surge and the crash towards the well-mouth, of an instant cessation of motion, and immediately of men toiling97 hither and thither with boulders98 and huge blocks, which they piled over the rent, and so sealed it with a cromlech of stone.
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That, in the heat of rage and of terror, we had gone farther than we had at first designed, our gloom and our silence on the morrow attested99. True we were quit of our incubus, but on such terms as not even the severity of the times could excuse. For the man had but chastised100 us to our improvement; and to destroy the scourge is not to condone101 the offence. For myself, as I bore up the little Margery to my shoulder on my way to the reaping, I felt the burden of guilt so great as that I found myself muttering of an apology to the Lord that I durst put myself into touch with innocence102. "But the walk would fatigue103 her otherwise," I murmured; and, when we were come to the field, I took and carried her into the upper or little meadow, out of reach of the scythes104, and placed her to sleep amongst the corn, and so left her with a groan106.
But when I was come anew to my comrades, who stood at the lower extremity107 of the field—and this was the bottom of the hour-glass, so to speak—I was aware of a stir amongst them, and, advancing closer, that they were all intent upon the neighbourhood of the field I had left, staring like distraught creatures, and holding well together, as if in a panic. Therefore, following the direction of their eyes, and of one that pointed59 with rigid108 finger, I turned me about, and looked whence I had come; and my heart went with a somersault, and in a moment I was all sick and dazed.
For I saw, at the upper curve of the meadow, where the well lay in gloom, that a man had sprung out of the earth, as it seemed, and was started reaping; and the face of this man was all in shadow, from which his beard ran out and down like a stream of gall109.
He reaped swiftly and steadily110, swinging like a pendulum111; but, though the sheaves fell to him right and left, no swish of the scythe105 came to us, nor any sound but the beating of our own hearts.
Now, from the first moment of my looking, no doubt was in my lost soul but that this was him we had destroyed come back to verify his prophecy in ministering to the vengeance of the Lord of Hosts; and at the thought a deep groan rent my bosom112, and was echoed by those about me. But scarcely was it issued when a second terror smote113 me as that I near reeled. Margery—my babe! put to sleep there in the path of the Black Reaper114!
At that, though they called to me, I sprang forward like a madman, and running along the meadow, through the neck of the glass, reached the little thing, and stooped and snatched her into my arms. She was sound and unfrighted, as I felt with a burst of thankfulness; but, looking about me, as I turned again to fly, I had near dropped in my tracks for the sickness and horror I experienced in the nearer neighbourhood of the apparition115. For, though it never raised its head, or changed the steady swing of its shoulders, I knew that it was aware of and was reaping at me. Now, I tell you, it was ten yards away, yet the point of the scythe came gliding116 upon me silently, like a snake, through the stalks, and at that I screamed out and ran for my life.
I escaped, sweating with terror; but when I was sped back to the men, there was all the village collected, and our Vicar to the front, praying from a throat that rattled117 like a dead leaf in a draught118. I know not what he said, for the low cries of the women filled the air; but his face was white as a smock, and his fingers writhed119 in one another like a knot of worms.
And even as they shrieked the Black Reaper paused, and, putting away his scythe, stooped and gathered up a sheaf in his arms and stood it on end. And, with the very act, a man—one that had been forward in yesterday's business—fell down amongst us yelling and foaming121; and he rent his breast in his frenzy122, revealing the purple blot thereon, and he passed blaspheming. And the reaper stooped and stooped again, and with every sheaf he gathered together one of us fell stricken and rolled in his agony, while the rest stood by palsied.
But, when at length all that was cut was accounted for, and a dozen of us were gone each to his judgment123, and he had taken up his scythe to reap anew, a wild fury woke in the breasts of some of the more abandoned and reckless amongst us.
"It is not to be tolerated!" they cried. "Let us at once fire the corn and burn this sorcerer!"
And with that, some fire or six of them, emboldened124 by despair, ran up into the little field, and, separating, had out each his flint and fired the crop in his own place, and retreated to the narrow part for safety.
Now the reaper rested on his scythe, as if unexpectedly acquitted125 of a part of his labour; but the corn flamed up in these five or six directions, and was consumed in each to the compass of a single sheaf: whereat the fire died away. And with its dying the faces of those that had ventured went black as coal; and they flung up their arms, screaming, and fell prone126 where they stood, and were hidden from our view.
Then, indeed, despair seized upon all of us that survived, and we made no doubt but that we were to be exterminated127 and wiped from the earth for our sins, as were the men of Anathoth. And for an hour the Black Reaper mowed and trussed, till he had cut all from the little upper field and was approached to the neck of juncture128 with the lower and larger. And before us that remained, and who were drawn129 back amongst the trees, weeping and praying, a fifth of our comrades lay foul, and dead, and sweltering, and all blotched over with the dreadful mark of the pestilence.
Now, as I say, the reaper was nearing the neck of juncture; and so we knew that if he should once pass into the great field towards us and continue his mowing130, not one of us should be left to give earnest of our repentance131.
Then, as it seemed, our Vicar came to a resolution, moving forward with a face all wrapt and entranced; and he strode up the meadow path and approached the apparition, and stretched out his arms to it entreating132. And we saw the other pause, awaiting him; and, as he came near, put forth133 his hand, and so, gently, on the good old head. But as we looked, catching134 at our breaths with a little pathos135 of hope, the priestly face was thrown back radiant, and the figure of him that would give his life for us sank amongst the yet standing136 corn and disappeared from our sight.
So at last we yielded ourselves fully137 to our despair; for if our pastor should find no mercy, what possibility of it could be for us!
It was in this moment of an uttermost grief and horror, when each stood apart from his neighbour, fearing the contamination of his presence, that there was vouchsafed to me, of God's pity, a wild and sudden inspiration. Still to my neck fastened the little Margery—not frighted, it seemed, but mazed—and other babes there were in plenty, that clung to their mothers' skirts and peeped out, wondering at the strange show.
I ran to the front and shrieked: "The children! the children! He will not touch the little children! Bring them and set them in his path!" And so crying I sped to the neck of meadow, and loosened the soft arms from my throat, and put the little one down within the corn.
Now at once the women saw what I would be at, and full a score of them snatched up their babes and followed me. And here we were reckless for ourselves; but we knelt the innocents in one close line across the neck of land, so that the Black Reaper should not find space between any of them to swing his scythe. And having done this, we fell back with our hearts bubbling in our breasts, and we stood panting and watched.
He had paused over that one full sheaf of his reaping; but now, with the sound of the women's running, he seized his weapon again and set to upon the narrow belt of corn that yet separated him from the children. But presently, coming out upon the tender array, his scythe stopped and trailed in his hand, and for a full minute he stood like a figure of stone. Then thrice he walked slowly backwards138 and forwards along the line, seeking for an interval139 whereby he might pass; and the children laughed at him like silver bells, showing no fear, and perchance meeting that of love in his eyes that was hidden from us.
Then of a sudden he came to before the midmost of the line, and, while we drew our breath like dying souls, stooped and snapped his blade across his knee, and, holding the two parts in his hand, turned and strode back into the shadow of the dripping well. There arrived, he paused once more, and, twisting him about, waved his hand once to us and vanished into the blackness. But there were those who affirmed that in that instant of his turning, his face was revealed, and that it was a face radiant and beautiful as an angel's.
Such is the history of the wild judgment that befell us, and by grace of the little children was foregone; and such was the stranger whose name no man ever heard tell, but whom many have since sought to identify with that spirit of the pestilence that entered into men's hearts and confounded them, so that they saw visions and were afterwards confused in their memories.
But this I may say, that when at last our courage would fetch us to that little field of death, we found it to be all blackened and blasted, so as nothing would take root there then or ever since; and it was as if, after all the golden sand of the hour-glass was run away and the lives of the most impious with it, the destroyer saw fit to stay his hand for sake of the babes that he had pronounced innocent, and for such as were spared to witness to His judgment. And this I do here, with a heart as contrite140 as if it were the morrow of the visitation, the which with me it ever has remained.
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