The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-02-23

there appeared heu, LaOe VIVID u io - o1
bread upon IT, achair pair of jack boots
md a sword banging .ahoye them. For. an
instant felt dizzy with bewilderment, then
turned and fled / was more thoroughly
frightened than If legion Of drumming
ghosts had marched into the Halt Tie IL
notsemenl vas utterly unexpected soterribly
real, So exactly the reverse Of supernatural
that the very contrast was a shock Spec
trad figures IL white r0l,ps, or event,e Scil
Iv0niam warrior beating his own drum l-ced
have borne: but a lrd which had evidently
lust been oacnp,ed for the clothes We're all
tumbIed, Il pair of jack BOOTS profanity jps'
pulled of, and a half eaten loaf Of bread
were sights Infinitely more alarming. felt
that tie occupant OF the mysterious cham-
Der lnusL % the sort Of person who would
murder me If he caught me; aud nay tell
tale face az rushed through the drawi9g
room required no explanation. Olga WAS
sufficiently recovered to fly after me, and
once more GREATNESS and exhausted, We
reached NV bedroom. Here | explained to
my sister u-law what had seen. aud W.
spent the remaining hours till daylight Ill
accounting for the ghostiy sounds, and III
vague cOniegtures as to the identity OF the
individual who produced them, The Serv
ants were somewhat astonished not only to
find us up at the earliest hour i'll the mora
ing hut to receive an order to send the white
headed steward to us, Meantime Mrs Phil
lips had been made acquainted with our dis
cnvery. which she communicated IN tongue
Of her own invention to the rest OF the
household 50 that when the steward came
We were followed by the whole establish,
'nent to tile treat Hail To my astoulsf-
rneltt another change bad taken place since
my last visit The ScIavonian warrior WAS
no longer there it is trIe but no more were
the bed, or the table. or the chair, or the blS
boots or the loaf Of bread, or the sword. =
Every thing had disappeared except the
room and into that Ne entered II was
bnlt into the solid wall. here nine feet thick.
The panel occupied 10y the warrior had been
five feet by seven, and this was the size OF
the entrance to the room. The dimensions
of it were rs follows Eight feet III breadth
twelve feet in length seven in height-the
floor was one foot higher than that OF the
hall 1t was now quite empty, though the
stains of liquid split on the floor showed it
to have been recently occupied, After some
difficulty we succeeded in drawing out the
grove, and the warrior gradually eme ged
once more to the light Of day We exam
med the edge of it carefully, and did not
close it completely for fear Of not under
standing the trick Of The spring. When we
discovered the right spot TO touch outside
the panel, We found it acted almost like a
hair trigger 1t wes in the crevice OF Il
a rock, against Which the warrior was lean
ing The effect Of very gentle pressure
here made the panel roll softly back Of IT,
own accord about an illch. AS the carving
of the panel projected this opening was gen.
orally in the shade, 50 that it might very
well be a little open without being Visible
There was no difficulty suppoSing had
been leaning within :. foot Of tits aparhnaat
in accounting for the sigh which tiic occ'l,
paul had pronay resQrted to us tie easiest
mode of frightening me away, before he he
gan to beat his drum hi the same way
the point Of Olgas cue must have slipped in
to this opening aud been dtxtr"Is'y snatch
ei our Of her hand We never saw the cue
aglm The unfortunate part Of it all is that
here my story eutls Who tile man who
lived IN this room was, why be lived there
are all questions which we went on ASKING
IL iii e gave up in despair. uSc, often
10 .sD,..t t.,lt the old steward knew soma
tang about Il; tut &c pretended to he as
nuan SURPRISED as any Of Us at the discoy-
cry lua most lEaIy hypothesis is that
some political efugee mad made 1t his abod~
prcfaYring il 10 oioeria, ar something still
more summary. Wh-ever he was, he had
cujoyed free lodging for twenty ye rs,as du
riGg all Tn, period the castle Ind been
haunted. Judging hy the specimen ! saw
vi it. Ills fare lI..t, neen Of the Simplest de
scrptiom; indeed got Tie least diff ult part
Of the problem is how lie managed to get
supplied with provisions at all. Nor IS ii
easy to exp.aiu Why ho left the panel open
Tor us t. discover his roOu., unless that he
did not giva US credit for sufficient courage
to revisit the hail after he had taken Olga's
cue Again he must have seen IRE stand
ing IN the hall, or he could not have known
that had found out his secret, and decided
Oh utterly abandoning his home forever and
taking all his property with him, Where
he took his table aud his chair and his bed
to, is another mystery that wifi never be
solved, more especially as the old steward is
dead, who, as have already said, have
always felt firmly convinced could have
thrown some light on the subject.
Ine.d scarcely say that no sounds have
ever be IL heard in the castle since that
cventfaI night Some Of the trees have been
cut down. aud some ii tie he,lroo'ns are re
furnished and made hab table anil rheerfu
The recess itself always stands Dozen, a.'d
contains ii Whist table; hat tue Sciavonan
ri + often secs the ght, for the story Is
still often told, aud without him it would ba
ghost story with the ghost left out.