Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-01-04


60 Not in very good repair, this
house." | observed 10 my hideous
| guide.
"Oh, quite good enough. Only
wants little touching up here and
| there"
/ can't tell you when it was that the
| peculiar feeling, which had taken me
ever since / looked at this uninylting
property, pronounced itself so strongly
as to become IA distinct sense of horror.
| But it was so now, and as | looked up
at the puckered face of this ape-like
man, / saw something that made me
almost utter cry of dread. But | re-
| strained myself; l should not have
| been such fool any other time, but
had been now walking about for seven
hours, and my breakfast had consisted
OF one cup of tea.
! We entered the house, and in the
passage we found woman waiting for
us. "My wife said the man, Z" she
viii 60 through the rooms with you .
and then he disappeared through the
/ house into the back yard.
! The woman took me into the rooms
on the ground floor. / observed moth
/ ing remarkable about them, except
that they were very gloomy. There
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thnra wo O rard LIN stoLles an1
,ragl, ho,,ao :. u,ar+ 80 10 eta.
"ia and fnrnd tto+ - ,yos Ii+tIa rnore
~, Ill ~ -, ~, It'll
~, $50 ,rog+a r-.l,,nd arnIosad hy tbn
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( t;onod hnforo Altaaotbcr never
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| + asi-diJ tbo ,r,,,,,.,,, ~, Gov = nos "a
Picogdillv and aLa told mo on1v fftean
,nin,tcs g,il, sic tn,nod ont to he
I,,i+a ,.;,,bt for ! bod r,andarod ro,,,,d
ad ~ rn,,2J 80 W. r,,,o ~ thot 49, evre.
dif;on rLo+ VIC Inncb naarer the Nv
lied region of Ralgravia tbon I
/ tLnrr.bt
m ,,oc,,lio, faol;po which have
,,an+;onod 49, rnos s+i11 gt2o,C, ~, mo 7
,r,s ,lorfontIv s,,ra +Lat 9soynohnu Nv
a+bor ha5 I;obtaJ -, ITO roal nIno e.
NV, loo. fr;on5's fota dora cav ,,o,,
III ,;l Ian ionob ~ me- . nrotioai ola ,.,o6o ~"
,'attino, foany wber + tolI yn, thatI
foH 90 r 9dI eSscanded the staircase If
49, ha,ao thot I've Po,,In ~ eco
h t,lli - no '''''' . $1,000 go
AT aaid tbora ,vore onlv two s+o.
rios 70 fla house. bnt Il wos strao-
,,I;n,, cow IS hn;l5ine, rho ,yo,oa,,
tna lI6 49,, IN tfron,,l ait7s;r, room, rLicb
s sIoN l LII ,t'' 10 drau,;ne ronn, hmt
1,L,ob ~ ;+s nrosant Ito yos ,orcb
more like lumber room with nothing
IN it, and through this. across a pas
sage to a much smaller room. which
she and her husband used as dwelling
room. There we're two children. of
very unprepossing appearance boy
/ and n r1rl They were fighting for
something when we entered, and we
had hardly cot inside the room before I
saw that the bow had wrested from his
sister small peucil case.
.sWhat have Won got there. my little
/ man 2" I said "I,et me look" He
/ showed it me with some pride There
was no mist king it. 1t was some
/ what peculiar one, made of ebony and
SILVER. and | recognized it at once as
/ having belonged To James Bavle.
| suppose my face must have betray-
ed my arritation for the woman looked
at me closely, and then remarked.
cts pretty little thing as little
JOHNNY picked up the other day when
he was out; if / could find who 1t be-
longed TO, | should be glad.
"Oh, it's not worth much" [ said
cts well it has fallen into such honest
hands
We now went up three steps, and in
TO n larger room. n bedroom.
"Tms is the best bedroom" she
said there is another one next it, in