The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1863-12-11
Ghosts Bargain
OR,
THE HAUNTED MAN.
A CHRISTMAS TALE.

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Come 10 sc light T. When - he held NE eu,t.in
WITH ore hand, and with ,he other sissd The lamp
snd trisltl r.er,e Ne gloom that Allied the place,
something rushed past him INTO tbs rom Ike .
Wild cat, and crouched down iuAn the corner
'Whst IL IL ?" he ssid. hastily. He might hsv"
asked what :" even had he seen well, 40
presently he did, when he stood looking - II.
gathered up in iu coru-r. bundle OF sesrshed
tgeihsr ~ hand. In size snd form slmost Az In
fasvs but IN tLs greedy, desperate liLle clutch. .
bad old fnsns A face rounded and sno'thed ~
some hail dozen years. but pinchsd sndtwsted BY
tho s,Ferienc.r Of alfe. Brtgh, 'yes: ON, NO
ugly IN the blood aud dirt thsi cracked upon
Them. baby savage. young rnonsssf. ciiid
who hsd never been chtld, creature who might
live ~ take the outw ard form Of man. but VINO,
within, ~-puld Ave aud perish . mare bss.A.
Ised, already, TO be worried and hunissi like
beast the boy crouchs-i down - he Vas loos.ed a,
and Iout. ed tack sssin. and nssrposed his arm 70
ward on the e1pecsed blow.
''riI bite" he said, IL you bit msr
Tho time had been. and not manysminu,es
,iae', when sucs ash, !" ~ .s,s you'd
on II now, coldly but ~th heavy I'd n 70
remember consisting - ho did not know what
he asked the boy what he did there, and whence
he came.
where's tie woman - he replied. 'I:~sns 70
aid tie woman"
.Whos"
"rhs woman. liar that broughi me. here, and
w. Wv - 49,
that vent " look for her, and lost myssf DOM
" ant you. Iwsnt the woman" lie mas . spring.
10 suddenly, " set away, thss the dull sound Of
his naked feet upon me noor VAS near NE oanein.
when NED ." osusht itn py ms feSs. Nome
you LEI me 90 r mu''erei the boy, s,rugsiins and
cenehing his tse,h. i've dons no'hing " you.
Le'ms 20, viii you. 70 TIE woman !"
sad Redlaw, detailing him, IA tie satne blank e.
fort " remember some asscoiston that ought, d
r'sht, ~ -Ar upon this honA1t-'4t o'JNI 'Whss
tot more"
"Whers do you i've"
Live What's that"
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| Of from sma shop by small screen, pssisd all
over with small scraps OF newspapers. In com.