Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-03-29

time till o'clock in telling, not TO Kate and
me. but to me alone shall put il in briefer
words and shorter time. And-but now /
think of il, there's a briefor way still to mar
rate this tale Of dia5lsrts-let il tell itself.
We spent this week in town, during which
Edward had never q whole evening for his
ilends and every day be grew more moody,
ana L more unhappy, for after the first night
ne told me no more A seal was on his lips
insisted upon returning home. threat
ened 10 60 without him, and to advise his
Iatner OF MS lntatuation. At length he pro-
posed compromise. He would 90 back, IL L
would engage not to tell the family what had
taken place L consented to the condition.
Ii was hard Here was Edward growing
more lncomprehensible daily and shs rinS
his awkwardness The house was uncomfort,
able. was frightened. dared not Trust
him out OF my sight, and hated to be with
him. L could not laugh at his folly. for a.
was preying sadly on his spirits and on mine
too. would have given the world for a con-
idant and adviser. Think Of q girl of eieh.
teen with such a secret, and nobody to tell IL
TO. Besides could not guess where il would
all end, and / was full of undesirable fear
Is Aunt Susannah any body? L had prom
ised not TO tell any body. Could that mean
that / must not tell old Aunty! L looked and
wondered as she sat with little Charley on her
lap, the faithful old creature pretending to be
wrapped up in the baby, but stealing every
now and then a watchful look at me, when
she thought did not observe her. At last
she asked plumply. What's de matter, Miss
Carline p
Matter! Aunty? Nothing"
"Eh-eh-em-em!"
That expressive humph. saw that my
| secret was out-my manner cbserved-my un-
easiness detected.
"Needn't tell dis chile dat" Aunt su-
sannah added
felt she was right. L told her the truth
| In short, made a clean breast of it, told
her OF the mysterious stranger who met Ed
ward as he was going to the shop.
"Massa Edward goern to the shop. Where
| was dat SAM
why, Sam was not to be found for an hour
or two after he had put up his horses"
"Eh-eh-em-em 10
/ told her Of the spiritualist circle, and
that Edward had been put in commune alton
with tho spirit of his deceased wife. That
was enough for Aunt Susannah She could
guess the rest, and so could I. She did not
hesitate TO speak out the suspicious which L
hardly dared trust myself to think. And
now" L asked, what do you think of all
this ?'p
al tell you byme by"
Another night Of fright at Birchknoll But
this night my dreams were interrupted and
cOlCred by screams of terror, not in NV cham
Der, but without. L thought of fre-of any-
thing rather than of ghosts or spirits; for the
cries were too much like those Of some braIen
human throat to be mistaken for spirit cries,
or the voice Of anything disembodied ran
to the chamber door, and am very much mic
taken if something white did not fit into the
nursery. All was soon quiet, and the next
day | asked Susannah why she was running
about at the dead hours7
:" Me. me run about So uou see some
thing? Eh-em! / told you, Miss Carline,
dare is gOsisses, and now you believe il"
All the servants were in perturbation, even
old Susannah pretended to look frightened.
As to Sam, he had not turned pale in a night,
but he had grown thin He was the oracle.
He had seen ghosts. There was no mere tale
Of rapping in his revelations, but a genuine
old orthodox ghost story. Aunt Susannah
listened with great appearance of interest.
Again came midnight, and again poor Sam was
haunted,
Human-nature could not stand this-partic.
ularly ebony nature, which has a peculiar
terror OF white ghosts. Aunt Sussnnah took
the opportunity of placing Sam in the confes-
siOnal, and his admissions, relative to his
misdeeds and Vaccinations, clearly indicated
10 Edward what course TO take with him
The threat Of dismissal from the house and
banishment to the plantation forced Sam to
acknowledge-need L say what? His absence
from the hotel was duly accounted for and
"HSu IL luiiy oppodIcu 10 Uy OrOlner Inal
black spirits as well as white were implica-
ted in the manifestations; that Miss Anseline
Was a visitor in the city, though in all the
week we had never seen or heard of her, while
Sam often had the honor of an interview, and
was her unconscious tool then, dare say. il
was understood why the spirit of the dead so
cOnsiderately advised that the widowed hus-
band should find sOlsce in a second marriage
And the family secrets which the medium
could declare ceased TO be wonders
"NOw, do you think, Aunty, that girl could
have expected to bring such a thing about1r
"Eh-em!" said Aunt Susannah "Dere
ere Yankees! Dsre is gosisses-and 1 know
it,"
$50 does Sam
The old ebony rolled with peal of lau ghter,
which subsidized into silent choking chuckle,
while her adiposity shook like jelly. 1 need
add no more, except that have not seen An
geline since, nor do we correspond. So, as
above hiIted, have but twenty y-nine inti-
mate friends left.-Rarpsr.