American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-09-24

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"Now then, my lads we have thcm.n
screamed Stany.
| The words were scarcely spoken ere the door
was dashed back in our faces, IN despite of our
strength, and with apparently as much ease as
it had been when only one was pushing.
This completely damped our energy.
''ln the name of God, what are you2" said
Stanly, all his determination gone
No answer, but the door moved slightly.
Again he conIured it, by every form of which
he could think, TO declare itself; again the door
moved slightly, but still no answer.
lie now lifted the candle, and placed his
hand on the door;-t yielded to the Slight pres
sure, and swung away back smoothly on its
hinges until it struck the wall. The room as
open.
! Holding the candle above his head, Stanly
entered. We followed him, dragging the bait
dead Joe along with us. Our first care was to
place him Oh bed, for he was utterly incapable
OF motion; our next was to examine the room.
This room was unlike the one we had left, in
being comparatively small, 50 that tho light at
/ once illuminated every part Of it, Parker sta
toned himself at the door, with heavy bar Of
iron in his hand, to prevent any one going out
that way, while Stanly and commenced the
search. We began at the door and went round,
we did not leave hole that IA spider could hide
in that we did not search We probcd and
battered the wainsCoat, TO assure ourselves that
there were no secret doors, but all to no pur-
pose, when we reached the door again on the
other side, we gave up the search as useless
We had now no other alternative than to be-
ilcve that the devllhad really been in the room,
and that he had been ousted by our adjurations
Parker, you may as we'll shut the door :"
said Stanley, at length, land let us 20 to bed p"
Parker went, and we turned to examine joe
who had fallen into sort Of sleep. An exclu-
nation, half prayer, half oath, caused us 10
turn quickly round; there stood Parker, with
his bar heaved up, and before him-no, not d
spectrc-but the real cause of our disquietude,
in the shape of the Hercules of the neighbour
hood, broad-shouldered, double lointed black
smith, who might have held the door against a
dozen such strplings as Us.
ella, ha, la, my larkios! did frighten you?n
grnned he, 81 thought could do 1t pretty
smooth, ha, La, ha"
1t wouldn't be exactly polite to say what
Stanley said, but what he did was to snatch
the bar from Parker, and deal him blow that
would have broken any other mans scul 1t
stunned and knocked down even him, and with
one accord we sprung on HIM, and began to
pummel him most numerically.
1t was at this moment, | believe, that Joe
recovered his senses, and the spectacle which
presented itself to him capped tho climax of
his terror. Seeing us down struggling with
some one whom he could not distinctly see, he
naturally imagined VIC were in the clutches of
Satan at last. Acting on this suppositon he
set up yell like released fiend, and spring
ing through the door dashed down the dark
stairway. We could hear him, as flight by
fight he jumped or tumbIed down, still at
short intervals repeating his fearful cries. Even
after he had gained the outside of the house,
we could hear his screams until they died
away in the distance. He reached his mothers
cottage more dead than alive, and never after
set foot within the Castle. As for us, we soon
grew tired OF beating the blacksmith, and after
bnndling him out into the dark entry, and bar
ring the door, not without good deal of soil
citing on his part to be permitted to stay with
in, We went TO bed In the morning we found
him lying on the landing yet, after having
passed night Of as much terror as we had
We learnt from him that he had entered
through bToken window, while we were at
supper, and soon after formed the plan of
frightening US The reason why we did not
perceive nun when we entered the room first,
was on account Of the door shutting back on
an angle Of the wall, which concealed him en-
tlrey from view. He was found by Parker.
as have related, and was thus far curiosity,
that he was the only ghost ever saw So
ENDED NIGHT IN A HAUNTED HOUSE.