Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-18

pany. The wind signed drearllY with
out, and the dull tolling Of the fog-hell
on the beach sounded in each rising
gust. Almost imperceptible at first, a
soft low moan began to mingle with the
bell, and it caught by slow degrees
Mrs. Addis's ear. She looked off her
work to listen, her very blood feeling
suddenly chilled. 1t came from the |
little room the children played in. She |
was convinced of that as she listened |
with hushed breath. Taking the lamp,
she moved to the door, impelled by |
fear, impelled with that strange i'm |
pulse that forbids you to remain sta
tionary in dread such as this. Open |
ing the door of thered room she looked
in, and saw-well, saw what well nigh
turned her brain. She stood in a sort
of dream, not knowing whether she
was asleep or awake. Theroom seemed
to be filed with Misunderstanding
that it had not in reality-a bed and
chairs, and mating on the floor. On
the bed lay the lady she had before
seen, the Spanish girl, her features dis
torted with what seemed to be death
struggle. A man, whose face was not
discernible to Mrs. Adds, stood before
the bed. The Spanish girl made
frantic effort to spring up, as if to beat
him of, and then sank back aud moved
no more. The man tore up the mat
ting and some of the floor, and a great
hole seemed suddenly to yawn there.
Then, by the side of the bed appeared
long box, and Mrs. Adds felt sure that
it was not there minute before. Into
this the man pushed the insensble girl
| arI liffp1 II I1fo tho rpaat bola
This was ALL Terrified nearly to
death, the poor woman lost her senses
and fell. AS she expressed it after
) ward, cold, dull, awful blank seemed
to stretch itself like black curtain be-
| tween her sight and the world.
The children found her lying there
2 insensible, and help was called in. In
vain her friend strove to impress upon
| her that this strange scene she seemed
g to have witnessed was nothing but a
!, dream or a nightmare; she replied by
e asking whether the appearance Of the
e Spanish girl to her children beforehand
i had been dream. The night was sue
o ceeded by q dangerous fever, and she
g lay for many days in delirium.
n Mr.. Evans caused the floor to bt
taken up in the scarlet room. Under
k meath it lay such a box as Mrs. Addi
2. had described; the lady within it wa
It unrecognized from the action of slakeC
e. lime. Then the poor people in tn
d Spani h settlement were questioned
and they related what they knew. tn
E. house on Russian Hill had been tn
d abode of young girl, belonging t
~ their people; she thought herself TIA
wife of an American merchant, whoT
j. she loved with intense devotion; an
n she used to watch for his coming wit
er anxious fondness. His real wife, NEAR
I'd time, sailed from the eastern home an
re came to join him, and he poisoned til
e, poor girl, as twas thought; though nor
is could prove it, and nothing positive W;
known beyond her disappearance c
lie that night, the 10th Of October, tv
ne years before.
Id The American merchant abandone
er the house and furniture, just as
ed stood giving an agent charge to let
ct for an almost nominal sum. After I
he naming empty some time Mr.. Eval
n took it for Mrs. Adds, its low rent b
)e- ing the inducement, and he KNOWN
ng nothing of the story.
ne After the discovery Mrs. Adds W
removed, anu lay long III az the nOCl
he Of kind Spanish woman who receiv,
he her. Strange to say, her children al
m. became i'll, as if people said) t
ap- curse of the house was working its
on out.
he A better home was provided for b
icy the one in which she has been init
lily duced to the reader-and she remoy
OF to it. She was only then recover
lot from the long illness, and was We
I'm weak.
Mr.. Evans substantiated this story
Der every particular that he could, as Q
wn others. The suspected man had go
ng with his wife to Australia; and no o
ey had held the Spanish wife in suffice
he interest to follow him there, and char
she him with the crime. He lives in i
Nr. munity from it, SO far as it is known,
en-. this day.
the l make no remarks upon the ste
by myself. l give it as it was given to L
That it was strangely singular, none c
co. deny.
And if the reader should be curit
md on the subject of Mrs. Adds herself
by may mention that she prospered w
led and regained her own position in L
airy But she never alluded to the house
Russian Hill with the least abatem
as of horror. Nothing in this world '
ass ever shake her belief in the ghost t
the haunted 1.-THE ArgoSy.
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