Scary Stories
One Summer Night - Ambrose Bierce copy
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- Duration:
- 6m
- Broadcast on:
- 11 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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The strict confinement of his entire person, the black darkness and profound silence, made a body of evidence impossible to contravert and he accepted it without caval. But dead? No. He was only very, very ill. He had with all the invalid's apathy and did not greatly concern himself about the uncommon fate that had been allotted to him. No philosopher was he, just a plain, commonplace person, gifted for the time being with a pathological indifference. The organ that he feared consequences with was torpid. So with no particular apprehension for his immediate future, he fell asleep and all was peace with Henry Armstrong. But something was going on overhead. It was a dark summer night. Through with infrequent shimmers of lightning silently firing a cloud lying low in the west and pretending a storm. These brief, stammering illuminations brought out with ghastly distinctness, the monuments and headstones of the cemetery, and seemed to set them dancing. It was not a night in which an incredible witness was likely to be strained about a cemetery, so the three men who were there, digging into the grave of Henry Armstrong, felt reasonably secure. Two of them were young students from a medical college a few miles away. The third was a gigantic Negro, known as Jess. For many years, Jess had been employed about the cemetery as a man of all work, and it was his favorite pleasantry that he knew every soul in the place. From the nature of what he was now doing, it was inferrable that the place was not so populous as its register may have shown it to be. Outside the wall, at the part of the grounds farthest from the public road, were a horse and a light wagon, waiting. The work of excavation was not difficult. The earth with which the grave had been loosely filled a few hours before offered little resistance and was soon thrown out. Removal of the casket from its box was less easy, but it was taken out, for it was a perquisite of Jess, who carefully unscrewed the cover and laid it aside, exposing the body in black trousers and white shirt. At that instant, the air sprang to flame, a cracking shock of thunder shook the stunned world and Henry Armstrong trinkly sat up. Within Articulate cries the men fled in terror, each in a different direction, for nothing on earth could two of them have been persuaded to return, but Jess was of another breed. In the grey of the morning, the two students, pallid and haggard from anxiety, and with the terror of their adventure still beating tumultuously in their blood, met at the Medical College. "You saw it?" cried one. "Yes, what are we to do?" They went around to the rear of the building, where they saw a horse attached to a light wagon, hitched to a gatepost near the door of the dissecting room. Mechanically, they entered the room. On a bench, in the obscurity, sat the negro Jess. He rose, grinning, all eyes and teeth. "I'm waiting for my pay," he said. Which naked, on a long table, lay the body of Henry Armstrong, the head defiled with blood and clay from a blow with a spade. End of One Summer Night by Ambrose Beers Well, it sounds like the tenants at your rental property sure know how to throw a great party. You just wish they wouldn't throw so many parties, on Tuesdays, until 4am. And if they could pay the rent on time, that would be nice too. Being a landlord can be stressful, but it doesn't have to be. Let renters warehouse handle the hard part of property management for you, like finding quality tenants you can trust. Renters warehouse manages thousands of single-family homes and specializes in locating reliable tenants at the right price for your property, usually in a matter of days. 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