Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Wolf Jack

Author:Wolf, Jack [Wolf, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781101614631
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: 2013-03-25T22:00:00+00:00

Tristan Hart.

When no Reply to this Letter arrived within the next Daye and an Half, I was disappointed, but not at once alarmed, for there might, I thought, be any Number of Reasons for the Delay. It was possible that the perswasive Arguments I had used upon the Post had not proved as effective as I had thought; perhaps mine own Letter had not been dispatched before the Mondaye. I went about my Work, and wrote to Simmins, inviting him to join me at the Shakespeare when he was able, where I proposed to introduce him to Erasmus. It had occurred to me that it might prove useful to Erasmus to forge a Connexion with the Regiment, and thereby obtain an Employment. My Motive was not intirely generous; I had no Wish for Erasmus to decamp to the Colonies, for I might never then see him after. Also, I had fallen under a strange and powerful Yearning to gather my Friends together in one Place, where I might more easily keep mine Eye upon them. Simmins was more than willing to join us both in the Tavern upon Saturdaye Eve, if Circumstance did not succeed, as presently it seemed it might, in keeping Erasmus Knee-deep in Pox.

When, by the Thursdaye I had still heard nothing from Katherine, I began to fear that she was ill, or worse. There was no one to whom I could turn to inquire after her Health; if she were not ill, but merely prevented by some trivial Circumstance from writing, or if she had not received my Letter, then any Approach I might make to the Ravenscrofts would work against me, and my Fears regarding mine Aunt become a Reality. Then I thought that perhaps the Reason for my Darling’s Silence was that we had been found out, and mine Aunt had exerted her Influence to break us off. I feared that perhaps Katherine had been forbidden to write, and was overlooked, or that she had been sent away without my Knowledge. Then, finally, there broke in upon my Meditations the aweful Conceit that perhaps her Silence was my Punishment for everything I had not told anyone: my Desire to hear Lady B.—— scream in Pain; mine Abuse of Annie; mine Attraction toward Simmins; as if the Thunderbolt that I had dreaded then had struck now in such a Way as to sever the Link between us. If that was the Cause, I thought, then truly Katherine’s Silence was the Work of God—or of the Devil.

I wrote to her again, from the Hospital, at nine, when I should have been again about Magdalen Ward:

I am in Hell. If Leonora hath Pity for her Bloody Bones, she must straightway shew it, for in Truth he groweth weaker with every passing Houre, and is begun to dread that he will not live out the Month.

Darling Katherine, write, write! Even if—God forbid—your Answer should be No. Shew me Grace, and relieve me from this cruel and ruinous Misery to which your strange Reserve contemns me.

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