The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-01-01
A NOBLE GHOST.

NVDAE UHOSle
The Midnight Grasp of the Dead Lord
Tyrone's Hand on the Wrist of Lady
Reresford.
London Queen.
John, Earl of Tyrone, and Nicola
Hamilton, afterwards wife of Sir iris
tram Beresford, we're born in Ireland
in the reign of Charles II. They were
almost of the same age and were in
trusted to the care of the same person,
by whom they were educated in the
principles of deism. Their guardian
dying when they were still young, they
fell into different hands. The persons
on whom the care of them now de-
yolved appear to have used every pos.
sible endeavor to eradicate the er1one-
Gus principles which they had imbibed
and to persuade them to embrace re-
vealed religion in some form or other.
But these ,endeavors were all in vain.
The arguments OF their friends were in
sufficient to convince, though they
served to stagger their former faith-or
rather their former skepticsm. But,
though they were now separated from
each other, their friendship remained
unalterable, and they continued to re-
gard each other with sincere and fra
ternal, or rather cousinly, affection.
After some years had elapsed and they
were both grown up they made a
solemn promise to each other that
whichever should die first would (if
permitted) appear to the other, in or
der to declare to him or her what re-
ligion was most acceptable to the Su-
preme Being. Miss Nicola was shortly
after married to Sir Tristram Beres-
ford, but no condition could alter their
friendship, and the families frequently
visited each other. During q visit to
the lady's brother-in law at Gill Hill,
near Dromore, in the year 1893, Sir
Tristram remarked when his lady came
down to breakfast that her complexion
was unusually pale and her counten-
ance bore evident marks of terror and
confusion. He inquired anxiously after
her health, but she assured him that she
was perfectly we'll. He repeated his
inquiries and begged to know if any
thing had disordered her. She replied:
"No, no; am as we'll as usual" 'You
have hurt your wrist; you have
sprained it?' asked he, observing q
black ribbon hound round it. She re-
piled that she had not, but added, "Let
me copjure you, my dear Tristram,
never more to inquire the cause of my
wearing this ribbon; you will never see
me henceforth without it. If it con-
cerned you as husband to know the
reason would not for g. moment con-
ceal it. never in my life denied you
a request; but of this l must entreat
you to forgive my refusal and never
more urge me further on the subject"
every we'll, my lady," said he, smiling;
3'since you so earnestly desire me will
inquire no further"
The conversation here ended. Lady
Beresford inquired eagerly if the post
was come in. She was told it had not
arrived. In a few moments she again
rang the bell and repeated her inquiries,
els not the post yet come" She was
again answered that it was not. "Do
you expect letters ?" asked Sir Iris
tram, "that you are so anxious about
the arrival of the post ?" II d." she
answered. II expect to hear Lord
Tyrone is dead; he died last Thursday
at 4 o'clock. II meyer in my life,"
said Sir Tristra,n, "believed you to be
superstitious; but you must have had
an idle dream which has thus alarmed
you." At this moment servant
opened the door and delivered letter
sealed with black wax. ut is as sus-
pected-he is dead" Sir Tristram
opened the letter. 1t was from Lord
Tyrone's steward and contained the
melancholy news that his master had
died on the preceding Saturday (Octo-
Der IA, 1893, at the hour which lady
Beresford had specified.
After period of some months Lady
Beresford had q. son, whose birth Sir
Tristram survived little more than
seyen years, dying in 1901, and after his
in fact, she visited no family but that of
agentleman in the neighborhood named
Georges. With them she frequently
passed q few hours. The rest of her
time was entirely devoted to solitude,
and she appeared determined forever to
Danish all other society. The family
consisted of himself, his wife and one
son, who was about her own age. To
this son (Who became Lieutenant Gen.
eral Georges, Of Kilbrew) after q few
years she was married, Notwithstanding
the disparity of q connection SO unequal
in most respects. The event justified
/ the expectation of every one. Lady
Beresford was treated by her husband
with contempt, and even with cruelty;
while at the same time his whole con-