Litchfield enquirer., 1869-03-04

 sg lsa4d qol .t4sd &s9s9a;f6o9 j. through the open window, and that sound was lively enough to subdue any amount of upholstering gloom. ..s.... .Fl.
 1t was sufficiently up.in history to know that my host was dressed for dinner, so l put on evening things, and went down stairs. ,.,.lg y
 ;, ''The table was laid in the hall, and as I had to pass through it to reach tue draw ing-room, saw that the party was to con- sist of three. Mir. Bantyen? or son? or another gun?
 Neither. On opening the drawing door, I was received by a charming girl of twenty or thirty-I never can guess at the beardless dears' ages while they have fig ures and smooth eye-corners-and MT. Bantyen intimated that he was widower, and that this young lady, his only child, kept house for him. M r s5.@ ;. "And very we'll she kept it too, nice little dinner she gave us. A capital mana ger she must have been, for everything had to be fetched from tremendous dis tance, and trifing slip of memory might have left the household without oil or Worcester sauce for week. oj
 
 quite self-possessed, and evidently ruled the household, her father, included. She was we'll educated; read the papers and magazines, played the harp, sang, and was rather glad, I think to half, civilized be- ing to talk to. .,
 .'I have shot over moors in Scotland where the grouse were more plentiful, cer- tain; but still the sport was very fair, quite good enough for my purpose. The old gentleman went out with me every day, and shot very fairly, too, with an antique Manton, which had flint locks: he could do nothing with 8 percussion. gun. In the evening played at piquet with him, or at chess with his daughter; and after pretty heavy surfeit of balls and dinners, that little bit of domestic quiet came in most accepta- bly,. We soon got very friendly together. and in fortnight was quite like one of the family, ,and MT. Bantyen told me all his pri- vate affairs. ~,a f1 r,.f a4s- zp.:.2 [
 ''The family property had once been very good, but a succession of extravagant possessors had mortgaged all that part up- on which money could be raised, and the barren heath with it's old tower was about all that was left. However, the old gen tleman had not always been quite so much strengthened as he was at present, but mis- fortunes had befallen him during the last few years, the principal being scampish nephew of his dead wife's, who had got his unfortunate uncle-in-law to be security for him in some affair or another, and had then been guilty of dishonest trick, which that unofending relative had to pay for.
 ''You may we'll understand that did not ask for any detaills upan go ppnlAaaaat ss !, . If the scrape, and then start nm on ~ ~ America. where he was supposed to pc as nresanE. that fe had determined 10 Cfy anu raise little money by letting his snoot-
 ssIt was an evident relief to the old gen
 tleman to tell me all this, for he was nos $
 nitable soul, and felt uncomfortaDle at tax 1 ing my money. So, to relieve him' | Io!e 1 him anecdotes of rich men who leG t,lea
 shootings, and noblemen who soio tnei game. ...s..srat. .,g, .,.. .;xa. 1,,,t wild but liked my quarters so well tna' sup cone evening, as we came towards tn ,l +ower after hard days walking, we me Miss Bantyen, who was in a state of grea : aoitation. 70 papa, Raymond IS here! she cried, Raymond was the troublesom yl
 other side of the Atlantic. $, ,faE., :.
 "Poor Mir. Bant5en was very much Pel tnrbed by the news and began apologizin J, to mo. hnt I assured him with perfe' :, trnth. that I was fond of studying dltferel 2 samples of my fellow creatures, and coun ad several scamps among my intimate a E onaintances, In truth have enjoyed u '. '. society of many man who, from hls you -, bas heen source of anxiety to D y friends. but never met a cooler card tns i- this Raymond Fletcher. T CT did not much like the look of him; ,r missed the rolicking, reckless LOOK oi 'A oannine naauvis sujet. His expression "
 crafty,. greedy and malicious as we'll as ]! !! of nndent' and he impressed one as bel ol bad rather than mad. s
 a. . "He spoke of his unexpected appe all ance as a good joke, and compared Ill IS salf to a bad shilling. He did the hon, If inc house. and attempted to patron ai. ma He tried likewise to impose upon nd ;n tha matter of the society he had mil to w;th, asking if I knew this man of 'he Rlnes. that man of the Rife Brigade. ew last he mentioned one of my own h 'is- iment, and then; I was forced to shut iu- up. ..a....... IL. .,,, ,,,,;staka ''s said ye. s.I will not deny that you are the Oo 'or. friend of every man in position ln e' liar othercorps in the service, if you say ails but none of the th know you, 1s n certain.' fl .fct4a1i tlsi.t!.e 9i :, 'st.s.
 nat That cooled him bit, and minute .sl two afterwards, [ intercepted !cok V lace told me that he honored me with hls nee ticnIar hatred. Neyerthe eless. he, ra oIo courted me and tried his very best to I i, .no himself agreeable. ' o,, nm sHaye you seen the ghost?" he Q ana me in the course of the evening.
 ,eed , CT had thought something wantin' '.' ded me what it was. It ought to be ns s,aelf al it was not absurd that 1t should .om. @ haunted; and once demanded her , ~ T If Miss Bantyen. She told me that with Icartainly was the, usual spiritual le weak conn ected with the old place. A J and lconspirator, ,gpriest and soldier, had cari- taken and killed, after desperate I nely. ance in my bedroom and witnesses, clotb ble upon other matters, had declared |oons had seen his spectre; enveloped 1n Q
 pistol in hand in the fatal chamber the had been duly frightened into temp ,ailad .i ssI sIegested that the witness had ,airs. too much liquor when he saw the ss tha snd that the after-illness might be ~ sAAS ssA~>~ ARr Rontvan 9mlI0d DO