Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-10-11

STAIRS. AS he goes ne hears u iouu cras"
as il the door had given away Fastening
TO the scene, he hears low voices as If in
conversation, and then quick blows of an
axe, as if hewing the door into ten thou
sand fragments. IA large number o!
pieces for one small door. Ed) A dead
silence follows, when Mr.. King, lighting a
lamp, examines the place of the supposed
destruction to find everything in its appro-
pirate place, the barred door hanging as
usual, firm and strong upon its hinges. As
he returns to his sleeping room heavy
tread keeps pace with his every football.
At midnight he was reused again by his
wife who said that the bell at the front en-
trance had just rung violently. Getting
up he opens the door, and by the light of
the full moon he thinks he sees carriage
drawn by white horse standing at the
door. (This ghostly team furnishes the
subject of the third illustration of the arti-
Gle, presenting the appearance of dilapi-
dated milk cart.) The unsubstanlial car
riage suddenly disappears from sight, and
then, as Mr.. King returns TO his chamber,
soft hand is laid lightly on his arm, and
an unseen form glides swiftly by with a
rustling sound of heavy silk,a gentle foot
fall sounding on the carpet, passing into
distant chamber, the door, as if swung by
some invisible hand, opening at its COM
ing. The wife of Mr.. King had
vIsITANT
that night at her bedside, woman il
| silk dress and man,ila, with a low, ra!
/ Ting and musical laugh. This, with sec
ond noise i'll the kitchen, as if burglar
were making terrible havoc, ended th'
nights proceeding. The wife of the sicl
man also stated that at midnight strang
visitant came to her bedside, and then witt
his hands behind him walked about tn
room whose description answered that Q
the Colonel The next night much c
the same drama was repea'ed, and contin
ned with slight variations for severs
months. Every night, for long, the car
rage came to the door, the bell rang, an
the light football went up the stairway
! and every day a heavy tread echoed in III
library. Then these sounds ceased, and
woman was heard weeping and lamentin!
Then this went away and there was
shoveling of earth in the cellar. the gra
ing of saw in the woodhouse, the fallir
of the door, and the noise of the axe, he,
ing it in pieces and then the letting loo'
of all the ghostly artillery. There WI
method in the manifestations
y THE Gnosr rnE rrsoo,
d Alice, makes the following graphic confe
: sion, in the presence of dozen persol
e assembled in the parlor: She was, 81
S said, the niece of the Colonel. She hi
lived there in unholy relations with hi
S until the murder of the peddler. The de
0 was done in broad day, when both she a
e the old servant were in the cottage. I
!. Col had asked the peddler to saw sol
IS wood for the family, and coming upon h
% when he was off his guard, had taken
J. life without his making struggle. In
is haste to hide the body and the poor pa
IN which was the reward Of his crime,
,e Colonel neglected to spread with FRI
as earth the blood-dampened ground, and
W wash off the stains which covered
le whole door Of the woodhouse. These I
IN tale tokens Of the terrible deed she I
lie before the day was over, and she char
O. the crime upon her uncle in the librs
,g He only. said ai.~s rather than starve
- would kill every peddler in creation. II
he to cover the traces of his deed, 10 sprin
IL the ground with earth and new the
ID into ten thousand pieces. She had k
k, the terrible secret because she loved
gn wretched man, and after ten years of n
A erabl, life had followed him to the wo
he of retribution. He was still chained
a the scenes of his crimes, but she, by ye
Of penitence and prayer. had made SO
~. expiation. Her final release from
ye place, whose very sight to her was a
ed ment, was conditioned on her making
w. public confession
ap- Finally we have the following postscl
,p- to the most wonderful addition to
.rt, GHOST LITERATURE:
te Since writing the foregoing, the wr
an has learned that in a vault near the hat
ley ed building had been found luxurl
ars head of woman's hair. 1t is wavy, Q
the golden brown and is described as a "
to der to look at 1t was apparently not
er- of the head but taken off with the SC
y and some remains of flesh still cling tt
the roots. The cellar in which the body of
cen peddler is supposed to have been burie
ant to be thoroughly dug over, and. when
our is done, another chapter is added to