East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-08-22
DEATHS DOOR:
on, THE GHOST AT THE GARDEN-GATB.

visit to q friend whose house had the
reputation, not only of being haunted, bat
haunted by ghost OF a peculiarly ven,
omous kind IL had the credit he told
me in his note of Invitation, Of being CON
ecrued in the death Of at least two prcvi.
Gus occupants of the place, However,
BIC added, 44hsving rather taste for game
OF akis kind, have kept record Of nay
investigation, which you shall hear and
if you think have not laid the specter
sufficiently, We will Join our forces, and
utterly break the SPELL"
Two or three days after had been un.
der his roof, he came iuto the library
with a small manuscript in his hand, snc
said, "if you are discngaged, will reat
you my notes about this ghost"
"By all MEANS" replied, "orly let mt
get my pipe before you begip.n
So ran up stairs for the pipe, while he
threw up the window which opened OF
the lawn, aud his wife gave some direo
tions to the servant, who had entered the
room to clear away the breakfast.
On my return he called out 'I am 90
ing TO read 1T in the summer-house, and
Mary, who has heard it already, shall skin
the aews off the paper, and give us the
cream wien we have DONE"
Arrived at the summer-house, lit my
pipe, Aipped spider off the stem, which
let himself down from the roof at the smell
of a lucifer, and put my feet up on the
bench, while my friend spreading his
manuscript on the rough table which
stood in the midst, thus -
"Tc be let furnished, in excellent re-
pair, and most salubriously situated, a
country-house, with good gardens and
out Buildings, near the D-station, on the
Great Western Railway. Rent thirty
pounds. Inquire of Messrs. Lettum Il
Go, Baker street."
"Look there, said to my wife, hand
ing the paper across the breakfast table
with my finger on the paragraph, "what
would you have If that does not suit you:
III 90 and see about it this morning"
"Why is the rent SO low :" inno-
Gently asked. is there a soap boilers
next door, or small.pox hospital p
Nothing of the kind, sill" replied the
clerk, we are instructed to say there is
no drawback in the neighborhood, but
good society, excellent fishing, popular
preacher, and pack of hounds within
easy reach, believe, though, that the
present owner, an eccentric gentleman,
let's it for a low rent because he believes
that it is haunted-an absurd fancy, sir ;
but oil the better for the next tenant"
tVnk,. I ...ncaeg n,a1a Y,,a rot IA
take to the prospect then otherwise and
determined me to run down to the place
and see for myself.
ave had, for some time, been looking
out Cor residence in the country, but
hitherto we had gained nothing by the
yerifcation Of several advertisements, be-
yond change of air for a few hours,
down one OF the many railroads leading
20 London-one house was too damp
one too dark, others small, bleak, lonely,
staring or tnmbledown.
"The following day l went-half hop
ing the inspection would confirm a grow
ing disposition to give the whole thing
up, and live, not without precedent, in
town.
arrived at the station, yielded to
the pressure Of the solitary Ayman, and
bade him drive me TO the Grange, for
this was the title Of the house sought.
We had not left the cluster of sheds,
w,tich had grown up near the station,
above ten minutes, when | caught glimp.
ses through fence of a low, gray, stone
building. with muIlioned windows, half
hidder in a olump of cedars, the whole set
an the corner OF a pleasant park-like pad
dock. 1 was just saying to myself, l
wish the Grange may be like this, when
che driver touched his hat, and said
Shall / drive you in by the back.way, sir!
the front is open.'
"This seemed an odd reason Tor ohos-
ing the spprcacb he suggested, but re
piled: 20, yes, certainly; thinking that
the person in charge, most probably, lived
somewhere in the rear Of the premises l
wished to visit-for we really had reach
ed the Grange.
GAS we drove up, / could see at a
glance that the place had been untcnanttd
for some time. The edging had become
q dwarf hedge; plants had piled up little
tumuli of fine earth on the lawn, over
which the grass had already crept aud
the fruit trees were checking themselves
with an inner groth of barren wood. On
entering the stable-yard, the wheel of my
vehicle bumped uneavenly over the stones
with which it was paved, proving how
deeply the rain had scooped out the soft
soil in which they were first bedded. /
noticed too, that horseshoe, nailed to
the threshold of what appeared to be the
stable-door, had become rough with rust,
and established a little brown puddle, like
the drops under the spout of a chaly beate
pump, while q fringe of weeds had sprung
mp round the kennel of a former dog.
"Now no noise Of dragging chain mark
ed his interest in the advent of a stranger.
There was not q sound in the place, ex-
sept from some pert sparrows who had
settled themselves in an empty dove-oot,
aud tho short puils of tho brokOn-winded
iiy-horsc.
"Shall / knock sir ?" said the driver.
"By all means
Getting down, and giving wet.sound