Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1881-02-10

eyes and bis senses had played MIN
false.
Have Won any regulation family
ghosts attached to this house, Miss
Dor.ner?' he asked Lucia. half in jest
half 10 earnest, the next morning, as
they sat at breakfast.
Regulation gho.ts!' she echoed,
opening wide her beautiful dark eyes
or course notl Why?'
Because | saw one last night OF the
real regulation tyre, he answered
:. white, figure misty and dim, Gid
ing along an impossible rarapet by
the tight Of the moan; .nd | wondered
| If 1t belonged Of hight to the family
or WAS stray sprits out for frol'c
on its own account.
Are You speaking in jest or in
earne.t9' she aske incredu|onsly.
4 scarcely know myself, he said.
But. while | WAS standing Oh the bal
conv of roc,n last night, | saw -or
thought saw--a white hgnre-a hH-
man being it could not have been
step from the wlnlow--i Of the ro"m
next to NINE aud walk along the ston"
ledge running along the house amt,
suddauIy disappear.
You must have been dreaming,
Mr.. Treln4in., said Mrs.. HoIllns;
while Lucias dark eyes were full OF
bewlldrred lucrsdulity.
1 mpposa | mnst, he answered
lightly, though | certainly ts.t I'M
commonly wide awake, and 1t was AZ
light rs day
VIA, was it like7' asked Lucia Gu
rlous y,
Quite the conventional pattern,
he sald--'a figure mis.Y and dim, III
hoNlng white robes and long golden
bar, aud, hks all other ghosts, 1t
seems to Aave been wandering about
Tor no earthly purpose, except to
trgh people, thouSh 1t really
looked such y very harmless sprlte
that my nerves have not suffered one
whit.
Lucia smiled msrrily,
Evidently YOU do not believe in
your own ghost, M. Tremalns, she
sad, SO how can you expect me to DO
snr
'lfyou won't own tn. family spirit,
he returned. smiling scros. At her,
how can have the temerity to set
one up Tor my.elT I must take refuge
IN the -nppoSItlon tnst my magma
ton must have played me trek,
Mr.. Trem aine renamed soms time
At ChaseIelgh. There was much bus
ines. 10 transact an th.r- were nl-
merous affairs to settle; and. though
he steadily refuse to have anything
10 do with the prop.rtv AMI won Il
not acknowledge that he hal any
claims to its poss".slon, stlIl he wa
compelled to attend to AMI arrAnSo
many matters which, without hi'
sanction, wonId have been at a stand
still.
+ The missing will had not been
found Notices were inserted IN the
new s.npars aud large rewards otte. ed
Accomplished detectives were sen
down from London, and the hous'
WAS turned topsy .,urvy. but wlthou
; success. So completely had the VII
, vanished that the outside world be
gan to doubt if it had ever had any
existence. But, If the existence O
the will was doubtful, the existence
/ OF the ghost was not. Three times II
= as msnv weeks Horace Tremalne saw
the Slight white figure. with ts veil o
misty, golden h"lr, fitting along The
narrow stone ledge. Once 1t WA:
bright moonlight, and the phantom
was distinctly visible. Twice it az
, peared on dark nights, and only ths
/ whlteneSs Of it's flowing robes made il
, visible against the dark walls of Tho
, house Determined to get to the bot
tom OF the mystery. and utterly skep
teal on the subject Of ghosts. Horace
| sat up for week after Its last appear
ance and kept strict watch on every
, inch of the house and garden. But
the gliding white figure never ap
peared; and Horace, when the frs
, faint t,nge of dawn tinted the eastern
sky, tumbIed into bed, mntterlns
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