Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-04-18
yesticulated with her hands. and became

her to repeat what she had said, which
size did in precisely the same manner,
but beyond the words, bad man and bad
house, she could gather nothing.
1t made her feel uncomfortable, and
as she went up hill again she regarded
her neat little abode with a puzzled
wonder Having an errand to do at the
nearest store, which was kept by an
Italian, in tent on Pacific street in
those days, she sent Nancy on to the |
younger children. When she retired,
carrying her few little parcels, Twilight |
had set in, and the great misty columns
of fog that sometimes sweep in from the
sea were making the landscape very
dreary. Still, as she climbed the hill |
from the city side, she could see her
own door quite plainly, and in it the
three children at play.
| Not they only. There was fourth
figure standing with them-a Spanish
girl of slender form. She had a serapa
thrown over her shoulders, and was
watching them with slightly dropping
head.
"That must be the lady p exclaimed
| Mrs. Adds to herself with sudden con-
viction. SLOW yonng she looks p
quite girl'
In her excitement, Mrs. Adds Stun
bled over stone and dropped her paper
of sugar. Stopping to pick it up, her
eyes were withdrawn from the lady for
an instant, and when she looked up she
could not see her anywhere. The chill
dren were playing on in the porch, as
before. In her haste to gain the house,
she lost her breath.
where's the lady?'' she inquired of
her children. In the parlor?'
The little ones looked around, as if
searching for the lady to answer the
question.
"The lady is not here, mamma" said
! Nancy.
But she was with you a minute
ago"
They seemed surprised. One and all
F: declared the lady had not been there
t that evening. Minnie, the second child.
said she had not played as much as the
r others, and must have seen her had she
$ come. But Mrs. Adds had the evi
4 dence of her own eyesight and went to
: look; vague feeling Of something
t strange was beginning to dawn upon
|, her.
The lady was not in the garden, back
# or front, as might be seen at q glance
t, Mrs. Adds went into the ditfaren
s rooms indoors, and she was not there
y Where lay the mystery? In what dic
20 it consist?
< From that night conviction of some
Of thing Notwithstanding to be avoidec
d and feared-sat upon her. Day by da
lie it deepened, like darkening cloud.
as 1t was extremely painful to acknowl
It edge to herself that this curious and in
le explicable thing had greater powe
lie over her, in depressing her heart an
paralyzing her spirits, than the sever
I'd sorrow that had passed over her life
nv leaving her alone in The world with il
Id troubles.
d. A vague fear of some Ill to com
ct haunted her and yet she had not tn
,e- courage to confess her weakness, an
n beg Mr.. Evans to find them anothe
as home. Whenever the children name
IF. I. the lady," she shuddered, and yt
ot she could not reason clearly on tn
ar subject, or decide sensibly what foul
he dation she had for misgiving. She b
sh came daily more oppressed by broodin
nm over this very uncertainty, and til
en- shadowy dread that haunted her.
in- One thing she observed; that Il
We children never now spoke of seeing th
for lady but in the little red play room
Whenever she appeared to them (if a
I'D pear she did, and it was not all delusiC
lat on their part) it was always there. II
IL singular circumstance was, that tn,
ba had no fear; and whether they real
nc believed that they saw the lady, one
ax- real flesh and blood, Mrs. Adds did n
ave know. She would not talk to the
an about it.
DIV Thus the time went on, and Octob
id came in. One day she had been dow
Nv in st. Annis Valley, and was toilil
ed back upward after her long journt
over the s.nd-hills. CHANGING to Il
an house when she come in view of it, 81
est saw one of their good friends, n
Brown, in the porch with the childre
q ;, He had Willy in his arms, and t
oes two girls were jumping and talking
his side.
was "There's mammal Y they erie
,,et 3" Mammals come back"
tba In that moment the strange a.
painful doubts were lost sight Of
,,as Mrs. Adds; she laughed and mold
tie in her turn, and quickened her wea
to steps. r
felt Suddenly her heart stood still
,ad though it were turned to stone. Pa
lev. ing lightly out at the door behind t
' if group already there, came the figure
Ito. the Spanish girl, and stood among thu
er's so close that their garments seemed
SIX. touch; but no one noticed her or {
peared to mark her presence. s
non leaned forward anxiously and shad
, he her face with her hand as she watch'
,;,,g looking earnestly down toward and
hi. yonsl the hill. For an instant Mrs.
ono. dis seemed to lose sight and sense, a
,ods when she looked again the figure
! in gone.
ran. oWas any one with you here n
,ank ute ago ?" she asked Mr.. Brown.
"Theres 40 one here but me, h
she Adds; me and the children. How
you look. Your long walk has fatig
any. YOU"
She said no more. 1t was on the
, be- of her tongue to tell him all, but
the did not. Perhaps dread OF being
e as cretly laughed at prevented it. t
tba she dreaded the staying on in t
pers. house on Russian Hill; only her