Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-07-19
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HAD taken a lease of Gledhills of my
leld Mr.. Lomond The latter, before he
5Ould consider the business settled, insist
cd upon my sleeping one night at Gledhills.
Dobson and his wife, who have charge of
tie house, will find you tolerable dinner,
and make you up a comfortable bed. |
will walk over in the morning at ten and
STE you and then, if you are still in the
same mind that you are in now, l will have
The agreement drawn up at once, and you
can enter upon your occupancy the follow
ING day"
IAe autumn day was drawing to close
when found myself walking up the av-
gAue toward the old mansion at Gledhills.
An Old man answered my summons at the
door, lie bowed respectfully at sight of
lie, and informed me that Mr. Lomond had
sent word that | was about to dine and
sleep at Gledhills, and that every thing
was prepared for my reception. As |
s'gsSed the threshold the great door closed
.eiInd me with a dull, heavy crash, that
NDtated through every corner Of the house,
ana aWoke foreboding echo in my heart.
tIeceded by my ancient guide, whom age
ana rheumatism had bent almost double, l
.''ssed the desolate,looking entrance-hall,
PASSED up the grand staircase, and so
trough pair of folding doors into the
'awmg-room, beyond which was a suit of
smaller rooms, Of which two had now been
sci apart for my service. How chill and
-eerless every thing looked in the cold
18nt OF the dying day ! Now that the
a'ainour OF sunshine rested no longer on
-e place, my fancy refused to invest any
. nose bare, desolate rooms with the
.eaSant attributes of home and already,
my secret mind, | half repented my fa-
Vile eagerness in being SO willing to &C.
7Pt without further experience, this worm
allen old mansion, tenanted, doubtless, by
-e ghosts of hundred dead-and-gone
KS as a shelter for my household gods,
home home for all that held dear on earth.
lie two rooms set aside for me found
be comfortably furnished in a neat but
-eXpenslve style but when | understood
nom the old man that ever since the death
d the last tenant, three years before, tbev
ad been furnished and set aside, ready for
-e reception of any chance visitors, like
-ySelt, who, either by their own wish or
uat Of Mr.. Lomond, might decide to pass
night at Gledhills, and that three or four
TouId,be occupants before me had so slept
.eTe a night each, and had gone on their
several ways next morning, never to be
seen under that roof again, | began to
Junk that there might perhaps be some
@nS more i'll Mr. Lomonds stipulation
'aan was visible on the surface.
Having dined, and done ample justice to
Mr. Lomonds claret, and being possessed
ID some measure by the demon of unrest,
took my cigar and strolled along the cor
'Ior' ald so came presently into the great
salpty drawingroom, in which the moon
os4M$ .S,.s were now playing a ghostly game
+. a!de-and-seek. 1t was uncarpeted and
@S'tute of furniture, and its oaken floor
%teaked and groaned beneath my tread, as
W. t~lyu9h 1t were burdened with some dread
,-' secret which it would fain reveal, but
,Yu'd not. Outside each of the three long
GaI'oW GTa5toW windows with which the room was
"Suted was small balcony, below viii cl