Litchfield enquirer., 1874-11-05
From the Atlantic Ms nthly.l a MISS cEoRcJME'S HuSBAND.

MISS cEoRcsNE's HusBAnD.
 Did ever see ghost? don't know jnst what you mean by ghost, Miss Bes- sy, but If you mean the appearance of !
 person after had seen him die with my own eyes. and laid him out with my ewh
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 don't exactly know about telling yoq the story. You see it true story, and very solemn one, and shouldn't like fp
 nave 1t laughed at, or to have any tss1s'
 tell m,. I didn't see what I did see. But
 you was always d pretty-beliaved young
 lady, and you know ! can't refuse yon
 anything, so if you will sit down quiet and take your work, I'll tell you all abont
 1t, my dear.
 You know, honey, I'm a very old WQ-
 man, and when was young I was slayt
 to old Judge Cleaveland, over on the
 Flats. There were slaves in York State then. I was born down in Maryland, bud the Judge moved up to these parts wheiI I was very small, and brought his seF. wants with him. We were we'll enoueh treated. Judge Cleayeland was a hard high-tempered man, and used to have aW- ful ugly fits sometimes, but. like moaz us per we'll enough when it suited him, and he knew it was easy enough for fhis seE- wants to run away if they didn't like their treatment. When l was. eighteen I. mar. ried Zack Davis, the coaehman, and aftef that we lived mostly in house of our own. We were free by that time. and we bought nice little log-heuse and some land for a garden, but we worked mp al the house all the same. z7e .sa
 The old Judge was wldower when he moved mp here, but very soon he married 8 pretty young lady from the Mohawk Valley. She was only eighteen, and q sweet child as I ever saw. The Judgd meant to be good to hex, I guess, butshs never seemed very happy When the sec ond little girl was born the. Judge was disappointed. suppose he wanted a son, to inherit his great estate and keep up the family name. He never was the same to his wife after that. He was polite to her, especially before compa- ny, but he had kind of cold sneering way with her, that could see cut her to the heart. Her health failed, and she went home to her fathers house for a change, and there she died. The Judge seemed a good deal cast down by her death-more than should have expected. I dare say some things cana back to him when 1t was too late. After the funeral he shut up the house and went abroad He was in foreign parts or down in New York for ten years and more. The young ladies, Miss Anna and Miss Georgine. stayed with their grandma some years. and then they were put to school in New York. A hot nd n kla <>IS S4 house, to take care of it. It was lone- some enough sometimes, especially in winter, but though Fused to go all over the great rooms alone by day and by night, never saw anything then-not a thing.
 We'll, when the young ladies were six teen and seventeen, the Judge wrote and told me to clean up the rooms, and have ready, for he was coming home His wild land was growing very valuable, and there was no one to see to it properly, and for that and other reasons he had de- cided to come home to the Flats to live. So at the time set they, came, with loads of new furniture and carpets and what not, and a very nice widow lady for a house keeper. Sire had son, an officer in the army and a very fine man, who would will ingly have supported her, but she prefer red to do for herself.
 expected to see Miss Anna the favor ite, as she was the elder, and Miss Georg- inc had so disappointed her pa by not be- ing a..boy; but I soon found out it was inc other way. Miss Anna was not pret- ty. She looked like her ma, and had just such quiet. gentle way with her. She was afraid of her father, too, as her moth CT had been, and with some reason-and she was afraid of her sister. She didn't care much for company but liked best to sit down and sew or read. Miss Georgine was like her father, and had just his free, bold way. She wasn't afraid of anything at all except that she should not be first in everything. She was very handsome, with regular features, and beautiful wavy black hair, and long curled eyelashes. | don't know that ever saw a handsOmer girl, but for real goodness and truth she was no more to be compared to Miss An na than a great red wOodpecker Is to a little sweet bluebird. She always con- trived to get the best of everything, and If she got into any trouble or mischief, she generally made her father believe it was Miss Anna's fault. She made a great show of openness and saying what she but she didn't think all she said. by great deal.
 When Miss Anna was about eighteen, Mrs. Gracie's son came to visit his moth CT. and a very fine, sober, nice young man he was- Every one liked him, especially the Judge, who could not make enough of him till he found that the captain and Miss Anna were taking to each other: then he began to cool off. Captain Gra- cie stayed at the tavern in the village, and called most every day to see his mother, and before he left he asked the Judge for Miss Anna. Then there was time. The Judge went into one of his furious rages, ordered both mother and son out of the house, and shut Miss Anna mp in her room. Miss Georgine was as bad as her father, and the way they treated that poor girl was shameful. But Miss Anna had got her spunk mp, md she contrived- never knew how.to send word to Captain Oracle. A few days after, when the Judge was out about his land, Captain Gracie drove up to the door, and asked for Miss Anna. She must have expected him, for she came down in her travelling dress> and with her bag m her hand. Miss Georgine stormed and scolded and sent all ways for her father, but nobody could find him, and in fact don't think any body tried Miss Anna bade her sister a kind farewell and got into the carriage, and that was the last we saw of her for many year. They were married that same day in the city, and went away wherever his regiment was. Captain Gra- cie sent her father his address and copy of his marriage lines, but the Judge nev- CT took any notice; only he handed me the paper and told me to pack up her clothes and things and send them to her. 1 don't approve of runaway matches as a general thing, but I can't say I blamed Miss Anna one bit. 3sasr j.7'ga. 7hs..,
 About this time Judge Cleveland found out that he needed clerk, or a secretary as he called it; so he sent for Mir. Bogar- dus, a cousin of his wife's, to come and live in his house and attend to his busi- ness. Mir. Bogardus was fine, handsome man, about thirty, very grave and sober; but with beautiful manners real fine gentleman. The Judge made much of him in his pompous, condescending way. Miss Georgine began by being very cold