The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-04-19

around her. She sat there for COM
pany. The wind sighed drearily with
out, and the dull tolling of the fog bell
on the beach sounded in each rising
gust. Almost imperceptible at first, a
soft low moan began to mingle with the
bell, and il 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 ther red room she look ed
in, and saw-well, saw what well nigh
turned her brain. She stood in sort
OF dream, not knowing whether she
was asleep or awake. Thereon seemed
to be filed with NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
that it had not in reality 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. 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 oil, and then sank back and 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
IL was not there minute before. Into
this the man pushed the insensible girl
ana lifted 1t into the great hole.
This was all. Terrified nearly to
death, the poor woman lost her senses
and fell. AS she expressed it after
ward, a cold, dull, awful blank seemed
to stretch itaelf like black curtain be.
tween her sight and the world.
The children found her lying there
insensible, and help was called in. In
VAN her friend strove to impress upon
her that this strange scene she seemed
TO have witnessed was nothing but a
dream or nightmare; she replied by
asking whether the appearance Of the
Spanish girl to her children beforehand
had been dream. The night was sue
ceeded by dangerous fever, and she
lay for many days in delirium.
Mr.. Evans caused the floor to be
taken up In the scarlet room. Under.
meath 1t lay such box as Mrs. Adds
had described; the lady within it was
unrecognlzed from the action Of slaked
lime. Then the poor people in the
SPAN n settlement were questioned,
and they related what they knew. The
house on Russian Hill had been the
abode OF a young girl, belonging to
their people she thought herself the
wife OF an American merchant, whom
she loved with intense devotion; and
she used to watch for his coming with
anxious fondness. His real wife, mean
time, sailed from the eastern home and
came to join him, and he poisoned the
poor girl, as twas thought; though none
could prove it, and nothing positive was
known beyond her disappearance on
that night, the 10th of October, two
years before.
The American merchant abandoned
the house and furniture, just as il
stood giving an agent charge to let il
for an almost nominal sum. After re-
manning empty some time Mr.. Evans
took it for Mrs. Adds, its low rent be-
ing the inGucement, and he knowing
nothing of the story.
After the discovery Mrs. Adds was
removed, and lay long i'll at the house
of kind Spanish woman who received
her. Strange to say, her children also
became i'll, as if people said) the
curse of the house was working itseli
out.
a hot Ia I'll a,l flr he,
the one in which she has been intro
duced to the reader-and she removed
to it. She was only then recoveri. 9
from the long illness, and was very
weak.
Mr.. Evans substantiated this story in
every particular that he could, as dio
others. The suspected man had gone
with his wife 10 Australia; and no one
had held the Spanish wife in sufficient
interest to follow him there, and charge
him with the crime. He lives in i'm
munity from it, so far az it is known, to
this day.
make no remarks upon the story
myself. give it as it was given to me
That it was strangely singular, none car
deny.
And if the reader should be curious
on the subject of Mrs. Adds herself.
may mention that she prospered well
ana regained her own position in life
But she never alluded TO the house OF
Russian Hill with the least abatement
of horror. Nothing in this world viii
ever shake her belief in the ghost tina
haunted 1.-THE ArsoSy.
Location OF Consciousness.
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