The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-09-16

l 'f"GoT exclaimed QuantreIl, who, at,
tracted BY the appearance of the clean lit.
tie hostel, had turned in for some refresh.
mept "Whst does this good lady meanl q
you're wanting 8 cook r. a.-al sIl
very much" replied the young man
"Here lam, sir" said the old lady, tying
her bonnet strings. -
"But you don't know about the place.
"Nor don't care" was the answer.
Character Ti suggested Garntrell.
"Here's q hstful," said the old lady,
producing several letters. Two of these
the hostess presently pronounced to be
from ladies of station, resident in the
county.
The young man hesitated. Here was 8
prize indeed. He felt, however, that the
peculiar circumstances of the case should
not be- concealed, and the guest withdraw
ing, and the hostess being summoned
away, an opportunity was afforded him of
giving the cheerful old lady to under
stand that there was, in fact 8 ghost IN
the csse.
81 don't care for no gbosts," was her
reply. II rather likes 'em. When all
alone, they gives quite q relish to ones
tea"
Under such circumstance, there could be
no further scruple on either part A light
carriage was obtained, and the old lady
and her long expected "youDg man. did
really depart in company.
At Grisewood Cottage, it il. needless to
say, the pair we're received with open arms
Mr.. Gsuntrelf had executed q long and
successful forsy among the perch; but his
exploits were completely lost in the SPLEEN
did fish captured by his son. As for the
brisk old lady herself-Mrs. Applebee, as
she wss cslled-sfter 8 very brief interview
with her mistress, she threw herself st once
into the heart of Office, winning easily the
| confidence of her fellow domestics, and de-
meaning herself altogether as though she
had lived in the family twenty years. She
had an extraordinary flow of animal spirits,
which never scanned to flag, and a pleasant
hearty Vuice, which, constantly ss is was
heard, never tired the ear.
Now, Richard Gauntrell, in touching
upon the ghost, had purposely avoided de.
| scribing the precise nature of the disturb
ing mystery, curious to see in what manner
it would act upon the apparently fearless
intelligence about to be confronted with it.
But it had escaped his memory to warn
the servants to do likewise, and hence,
when, sitting together after supper, Mrs.
Applebes suddenly ~bethought her of the
ghost, and requested particulars, Mr..
Thomas at once gave them
As he proceeded, to the extreme amaze
ment of all, the hitherto fesrlefs old lady
turned deadly pale, and lay back, as ii
gssping for breath, in her chair. o.
"How-bow often-does he conner" she
presently calculated.
Thomas did not notice the expression
"he,' and only answered thst the visitation
might occur any ~night-perhsps then
"rhen, my dears;" said Mrs. Applebee,
presently regaining her looks and smiles,
Hyou do a poor old lady this kindness.
Moment you see him-tbe light, that is
coming, all of you bolt up stairs like fright
ened rabbits, and leave me all alone"
Emma drew a long breath.
"Well, you are n bold one, Mrs. Apple
bee"
"Mr. Greathesrt led the way" quoted
the old lady, with her confident smile.
"pm afraid of nothing Ke sees fit to suffer
in the world" t
It was remembesed that while she was
yet speaking, the marvellous light began to
steal into the room, slowly, this time, as
the revealing of an actual dawn.
All looked at Mrs. Applebee-Thomas
raising his hand, as if to appraise her of
Whist her less experienced eyes might have
not yet detected. The old lady nodded.
She betrayed no trace of fear, but IS the
light increased her countenance seemed to
put on o strange solemnity.
Presently she signed to the door, when
the servants, remembering her request all
three Quilted the room. Turning at the
top of the stairs, Thomas, who went last,
observed that the apartment was filed
with q radiance brighter than any they
had yet beheld.
4 For the next half hour the servants
waited quietly in their respective rooms.
At length Thomas, becoming q little IN.
easy, was on the point of going down,
y ghsP NJ AFs stst AAP E4a aes Rsfs head SsGs to come
The next morning found her active and
as ever, but uncommunicstiVe as
to the ghost. Having got through the
greater part of her mornings work, she
permission to pay 8 visit to the little
Villages mere cluster Of the humblest
close at hand, and, tying on her
neat bonnet, set forth.
Near the first cottage, she encountered
old voodman, at work with his Ratchet
the trunk of q felled tree. Upon this,
in her scarlet cloak and straw bon
net, like a bright old moth, Mrs. Applebee
and the following conversation
After q brief strangers greeting:-
"Folks very bad eft in these paris, mas
ter y inquired the old lady.
aus, in Duffryn, couldn't hardly buy the
Queen q new crown, if the old IN was
wore out" replied the woodman, darby.
Poor, are they IN
"Cruel poor"
"But you helps each other 2'
40 yes, we helps esch Other replied
.he old man, dealing a savage cut at the
rec. He seemed weak, and in i'll health,
and the energy of the action exhausted
him, for he sunk the hstchet YEARLY, and
'at down upon the tree.
"1s-is anything the matter p ssked the
Did lady.
"Hunger. and death" said the man
more. Never you mind, missis."
Mrs. Applebee started up in q moment:
I" But L must mind" she exclaimed.
Who's hungry? Who's dying Tell me,
teUI' E~EFE
Before her esrnestness, Che mans sullen
mood gave way.
'I tell you, missis," he said, Gbut don't
put yourself out for as. You can't do
nothing"
Thereupon he related to her, in plain
terms, a sad-but not strange-his-
His daughter, and only child-the
bssuty, as he called her, of the country
round quilted her honest home-seVersl
before under the protection of 8
young soldier, whose attention she had at
at q neighboring fair. at the end
Of two years, the girl came wandering |.
back again, w~retched, ragged, weary, car
8 sickIy child. Her seducer had
been ordered on 8 dangerous foreign SER
vice, and giving her what he could spare,
babe her farewell. Her mother had died
in the interval of her absence, and her
falling into Indifferent health, wal
to the last stage of poverty. The
desolate home, however, could still offer the
off roof, and to this the wanderer
was made welcome.
1t would appear that either owing to a
haughtiness in the girls former
bearing, or from the villagers having been
impressed by the grief of the heart
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