The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-02-16

a getting new mount every day lntll l was
= satisfied aud then how Olga and used Is
4 fly across the country after iiares, aud how
l. fond the dogs aud horses and the riders and
/ all got of each other at last! IbenI made
! acquaintance with the Whole population OF
, Of the village, and though | could not neN
. change an idea with Que of them, / found
+ plenty to do and | was beginning to forget
all about tue ghosts, when one night, p uIst
! as was going to sleep, in fiounces, nEsiiza.
) beth, or the exile, gives two violent gasps
r and faiuts dead away by the side ofmy bed.
Not being at all of atneryous temperament
myself, don't generally make allowances
for persons addicted to hysteria; but there
Was not the siightestdoubts as to the gen-
nineness, Of Euzlbaths present condition,
and at least Aaif ali hour elapsed before, by
/ dlut Of violent remedies, L succeeded in ire
storing conciousness Not that | gained
much, for no sooner did she come TO to
use her own professionalism she shut her
eyes and went off, again, This she did
ttreee times, aud then her anxiety to tell
me the story overcame every nther consider
otion, and size sat up, took rather a. long sip
Of satvolatie aud began. 4o -.oo,.. q
should premise that had allowed Eliz-
abeth-who, 10y the way, never permitted
me nor ybody else to call her anything
but Phillips. and whose Christian name was
3 Jane-to sit and work in sort of little
boudoir that opened off the billiard room, in
order that she might not mix with the 9TH
er servants who, she'said were not, sym
paticas' to her-slie had spent winter in
Rome with lady before coming to me-
so, % says Phillips knowing my lady, that
you would want your riding 'abit the first
thing in the mornig, and that should have
to let Il whole new bit in, in conseqnenceof
your ladyships always tearing your 'abit in
exactly the same place -leastways three
mornings runnig-I anticipated rather
long job, and so | determined to set about il
at once; and your ladyship may imagine
the 'orror [ conceived on reaching my APP
APARTMENT ofter undressing your ladyahip,
/ that had left my needlebootl aud thimble,
and bother working materials, in my morning
lboodwar Jl'la9 70 Jl'A'-
7 Wei my lady, I was ID a q great many
minds before | could summon up courage to
so into that dreadful castle at this time OF
might; and it was not without awful treun-
| bling-and might say even haspen-l like
| shakiugs-th urried along tie glass
passage across the moat, ashadiug the eau
die with my and When opened the door
into the billiard room there came a gust of
wind that almost extinguished my light II
and got 50 frightened that turned back
again as far as the passage and there [ stop
ped to take my BREATH and that gave me
time to think of your ladyships displeasurel
if did not get the 'abit ready, and SO II
gently opened the door again and listened |
but as dr. Munckting Mills beautifully
observes, the beating Of my own art was
the bonIy sound card leastways az that4
moment my lady A moment after. Z tsjFfp>-y
ed over a billiard cue which was Frustrated /
and oh what another start that gave me. |
I-felt as i'll was made up of electrical wires
and was keeping OH having shocks from ey /
erythiug touched being continually and
perpetually expecting of ghosts made me al 4
most feel as if | was somebody else, especial |
ly when the light made my own 'orrid shad I
ow on the wall all of a sudding, light oppo-
site to me Well, my lady, | was shaking
so when got old IF my working materials |
that run the needles into my fingers with |
out caring, and was running away feeling
always that somebody might be close be
hind me i'll the dark for all | knew to the /
contrary. when Of a sudden, as got into
the passage leading form the great hall to
the billiard room-oh, my lady -
Here Phillips began again to tremble so
violently that poured out some more sal
volatile and in order to encourage her, as
administered it, said
''Wei, MY good Phillips, what did you
sae?'' i
Oh nothing, my lady nothing visible t
could ever make such auful sounds and i'll
was right in my ear, not an inch of, as / |
am living woman. just as l came out Of
the billiard room, my lady, off it went, with
a bang exactly like the militia"
well, but Off went what could you see
nothiug?'
Why first I never looked ;aud second, |
it was TOO dark If had it was just at the |
corner where the passage turns TO the glass
door; but Oh, it was SO loud wonder you did |
not hear it here it We're IKE a number Of |
little pistols going of quick as light, one /
after the other Coming on me of a sudden
and me feeling as | was, and being wound !
up to the lest pitch at any rate, | gave al
scream and a jump my LADY, as shall
never know how many feet ia the air; and
[ never stopped screaming aud running with !
occasional jumps, and once fell down. till
iscaine 10 your ladyship's bedside where |
shall remain and never again TO move. Oh
dear, 0 dear!" /
And here Phillips went OF into fit Of il-
coherent iatnentation and much sobbng, III
the course of which | indicted her to get
| upofi tie couch, when she finally cried her
| self to sleep 224 \
was excessively annoyed fnthe first
place Phillips was full enough of fancies
without silly practical jokes being played
upon her to increase them; and in the Sec
Iond, she was sufficiently difficult to please
without making Russia more intolerable toI
/ her than it already was. So spalle the SEN
siblc, practical English woman; but in sol
/ speaking | am bound to say, she was not
telling the real truth. felt was deceiv-
| ing myself knew well enough It was no
| trick of the servants TO frighten my maid;
there was not servant in the place who
would venture into the castle after we had
I left the drawing room. Moreover, had not
the very owner, to say nothing Of the balls
i'll, been frightened out Of the place years
ago, and goue to the expense Of building
bedrooms? Again what Phillips said about
the nature Of the sounds was consistent
with general report 1t was said they We're.
so loud sometimes that there was not s6ry-
ant in the place who had not heard them.
So much so, that on certain nights Of the
week the villagers used tinidly to approach
the castle and listen and then the moment
the noises broke out would run sway terri+
fed,
The day most patronizel by ghosts
had heard, was Saturday but whether our
presence had kept them unusually quiet, or
/ whether | was always too sound asleep at
the interesting moment to. hear them.
know not; but my curiosity was at last
i violently excited, aud my temper somewhat
reused SO determined couts ga c2ate, to
get TO the bottom of The, mystery and hav-
4 ing arrived at this decision irrevocably in
my own mind, turned round aud went
Ipeaceably. to sleep, a IS ~ait u