The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-02-23
AINT ANN,S GHOST STORY.
From Black Magazine
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Sclavouian warrior with the battle axe and
the drum. My flesh was now beginning to
creep, felt my hair positively rieing' a"d
wanted to run away. but was afraid to leave
the wall, against which had placed my
back. for it seemed sort OF protection.
Again a long deep sigh, then another. There
lis something aboniiuable in signs They
seem sort Of sound that it docs not re,
quire a regular body to make. a pair Oh
lungs is all that is necessary to sigh with. a
mouth is superfu0us. Then there was
a sort of catch ia one of the sighs that was
particularly disagreeable, as II The ShoSt
| had been interrupted IN his misery a'iu
then it had suddenly increased. was sun
lhesitatiug what 10 do when the STIFFNESS
which had succeeded the last sigh was FOL
| lowed by muflled sound OF beating or
humping, very low and regular, aud seem
I ing to echo all around the room, but to
come fom no particular part OF IT. As u
grew louder, ny fears rose such pitch that
| all my resolution vanished. | rushed at the
door leading to the drawing room, winch |
| banged after me but failed to shut out the
sound. which seemed to pursue me through
tie drawing room and along the glass pas
sage with ITS increasing volume still ring
| ing in my ears into bed, dressed, and just
as was aud with Ny head under the bed
clothes, was still unable 10 shut 1t out.
pressure on any SHOULDER made me start WIFI
i scream or t5rror-0vertakeh ut last my
bed even not IA refuge II vas too horrible !.
| TIC thought had hardly flashed across 'nr
wien Cigas gentle voice re-assuei me.
Size was shaking from head to foot; the
5 unds from the castle had been loud enoug }
IL wake her up. aud nov we clasped each
,thrr, We could hear them ynS away he
fond drum roll was snt,s,Iing luto the nuf
I-d murinur had heard at first, aud 10y dc
,rees It ceased altogether.
i'he next morning Phillips came to me
'ith the triumphant Intelligence that ali
the servants had been reused by noises III
the castle ana that her story which llan
| ,lf.scteI 10 disDulieve had thus received the
mnst satisfactory continuation Poor 'nli
| ups / felt ON ei her s.Irie apology Tor the
apparent skepticism with which had
treated her story, and adnntted 10 her that
/ had also heard the sounds IN tact i'li
pissed Il very uneasy night III consequence.
.ils seemed to Afford der u great comfort
ami consultation though she re'apstd lnto
tllsappolntt. ent " hen she found that stead
dy refused to admit Tia II the SQUADS III ques
ton could possibly be caused by snpernatn-
fai agency. notwithstanding ali WHICH yer,
Grave language, my nerves were 50 much
shaken by the incident OF this dreadful night
that could scarcely bring myself To cnter
the Great Hail even by day. AMI our even
ing sittings in the drawing room were by no
means protraCted to SO late an uOur as they
tad formerly been Having unlimited con
idence in sanitary effects OF Il gre t deat IT
exercise in the open air upon the nervous
system, devoted myself to the destruction
OF hares, and for some days cOursed so We
hemently, that new couple OF gfey!ounds,
which the baiItf had bought to relieve llis.
own, were fairly worked off their legs Still
was as perpetnally haunted by the desire
OF discovering something more about the
ghosts as the castle was by those uncalny
beings. For some nights | lay awake. lis
tening i'll vain for sounds, until at iaet, one
night as | lay wondering whether they
would ever come again, the Instant ro!
gradIt lily swelling aud as gradually tal lug
broke the midnight stiiluess 1t was nearly
as loud as upon the former occasion and so
far from frightening me- seemed this time
rather to inspire me with courage. 1t was
Saturday, just fortnight after my last ad-
venture, and listened, and calmly specuIa-
ted upon the mysterious sound. had been
reading rather heavy book, in which, nev-
erthelesS had been deeply Interested for
although young aud giddy, was excessive
" fond Of study, and tie repose Of country
lte had suggested to me the expediency Of
beginning d course o. serious reading and
following it up. My lamp was burning
brightly every corner of the rooul was light
cd, Olga aud all the servants slept between
me and the castle altogether my nerves
felt 80 strong and steady. that / wondered
why had experienced such terror or the
previous night OCCASION; so | once again re
solved to tathon the mystery, and this time
determined that not the whole
misery OF the universe concentrated into one
sigh, nor the tattoo roll OF all the armies of
Europe concentrated into one dram, should
drive me from the ,4relt Hall. Having
AS upon the first night Of Phillips adventure
arrived at this irrevncable decision | turtI
cd round aud Went Deaceahy tn sleep.
The first thing that my sister in law ask
cd me ne>t morning was whether had
heard TIC sounds ~ the night. On admit
ting that had, size sli she had not felt So
-
remarked that she supposed in time we
Should get quite accustomed TO Them. /
told her / had alae tly So far overcomp my
original dread, that | had determined III my
own mind to make another nocturnal exper
uncut and proposed To her to join me. low
ever brave one may be Individually. com
pdulou on SUCH occasions is always an i'm
nenss support iony great delight she
realty consented t. my proposal. sug
gcstcd that WG should not wait until the
next Saturday night bat try at once, and
keep on making experiments every nIght
dnrlng the wees; ny these means, it moth
Lhlug Was seen or heard, we should have be
come accustomed to the loneliness IF the
Great Hall, aid be better able to face the
dangers of the fat., Saturday am bounC
T., say that We passed the whole of This day
IN II fever Ut excitement aud an ticipatIon.
went half dozen times into the GREAT HalI
lmpeled thither by fascination which WAS
Iquite irresistible. gael at MI the pic
lures, examined all the plneiIl :, asGend5 1
the massive staircase, which nevertheless!
creaked even with my light weight, and be
came familiar with every object @iich hea
ed imagination could possibly turu Into
ghost. Gauut figures in armor. with din
! Z.
light uTon them, are especially ghost-!ilt
and supernatural The bars of Their vis1rs
4 always look like long teeth and they make
a nasty rattle when you touch them, ex
tremely disagrceable in the dark | deter
mined that | should allow my mind to res
on none OF these things, when came a
night with Olga. Indeed, I tried to takt
: one warrior to pieces, on purpose to feel OF
intimate terms with him, and succeeded :,
far that got his hemIet off and could 10
get it on again so, as piece of br ,vrdo,
put it under his arm, and made him iool
more CHASTITY than ever Then | went 6acI
to the drawing room, and by the time te
O'Clock struck had worked myself up int
such a reckless deflut mood. that felt al
most intoxicated with excitement. dig
caught the infection. We could scarcel
restrain our impotence till the momen
came to dismiss the servants; then we jump
+ ed and waltzed round the room, a sort