Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-09
GHOST ST0RTES

Left Holland House in time to get *
Rogers, where Sir W. Scott was to cal
for us. Called at three to take us TO din,
with his son, Major Scott, at Hampton
Scott very agreeable on the way. Toll
hlm our conversation at Holland House
about ghosts, which brought on the sam.
topic. His own strong persuasion, one
night, that he saw the figure of LORD
Byron. Had been either talking of O,
reading him: and on going into the mex
room, was startled to see through tht
dusk what he could have sworn was By.
ron, standing as he used to do wher
alive. On returning into the drawing.
room, he said to his daughter. ssIf YOU
wish to see Lord Byron, go into that
room" 1t was the effect of either the
moonlight or twilight upon some drapery
that was hanging up, which, to his imas-
lnation, just then full of Byron, presented
this appearance. Rogers story of the
young couple at Berlin in their opera-box
between whom, at distance, there all
ways appeared to be a person sitting
though on going into their box, it was
found that there was no person there but
themselves. From all parts of the house
this supernatural intruder could be seen.
but people differed as to its appearance,
some saying it was fair man, others a
dark: some maintaining that be was old
and others that he was young. 1t should
be mentioned, that there was some guilty
mystery hanging over the connection be-
tween these young people; and as, at
last, no one ventured to visit their box
they disappeared from Berlin. This an
ecdote Lord Wriothesley Russell brought
with him from abroad. Scott (who evil
IDENTIFY did not like the circumstances being
uneXplained) proceeded to tell a story
of Mrs. Hook, the wife of DIR. Hook,
who wrote the Roman History: il
being as WELL" he said Ito have some
real person to fit ones story on.
Mrs. Hook becoming acquainted and in
innate with foreign lady, widow, at
Bath; their resolving to live together on
their return to London. Mrs. Hook, on
coming down stairs one day at this lady's
lodgings, meeting foreign officer on the
stairs, saying to her friend next day,
''Iou had a visitor, yesterday" the other
answering, No: she had seen no one
since Mrs. Hook left her," Mrs. II. think
ing this odd, going another day into her
friends dressing room by mistake, and
seeing the same officer there stretched On
the sofa, was now sure there was some
thing not right. determined to mention it
to the lady; who, at first, said it was i'm.
possible, but hearing description of how
the officer was dressed, tainted. Mrs.
Hook, convinced that it was some i'm
proper liaison she was carrying on, deter
mined gradually to give up her acquaint-
ance. The foreign lady soon after was
preparing to 60 to London; and Mrs.
Hook being in the room when her maid
was packing, (the lady herself not being
presently saw miniature case fall out of
the portnanteau; and taking it up apd
opening it, saw the portrait of the very
person whom she had met on the stairs.
That, said the maid :" is the picture
of my mistress's husband" "Her hus-
band :" Yes" answered the maid;
he died short time before we left Ger
many" In a few weeks afterwards,
there arrived an order in England to have
this foreign lady arrested on charge of
numbering her husband !!Moore's Diaru.