South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1881-07-08

| mention TINS 10 anybody. You'd
brighten some of my boarders away,
perhaps. I'll talk it over after break
fast. and I'll wager I'll lay the ghost
Fanny Ann aud Abby Jane depart
ed, promising silence, and the board
ers ate their breakfast as usual. AZ
terward. behind closed doors, she
heard this narrative:
AT IL o'clock every night for the
past week the girls bad heard n noise
III the outer garnet; but the last three
having been lit by a brilliant moon,
they had been able to see through a
crack in the door, and espied-'as
sure as she was living woman ABB
by Jane declared-a ghostly soldier
in complete uniform, pacing up and
down.
The first time the figure vanished
| rapidly. The second time it was longer
IN going, but on the third night they
saw it enter by the dismal stairway,
and heard it speak What it said was:
Darling, would die for you Iwould
risk all to meet your
I'VE could look no longer, Miss
said Any Jane. I'VE thought we
should take spasms'
Miss Pettigrew rubbed her nose.
This is unpleasant she said. Ger
tainly the ghost was an officer, and my
own Aunt Lydia declared that she
saw linn. That was better before her
daughter Grace cloped with - Good
gracious! | have itr
what, Miss ? cried Abby Jane.
AN idea said Miss Pettigrew.-
Girls, you may take mattress on
the parIor floor tonight, and hold your
tongues until tomorrow morning
The police force of - was not
large, but that night two of its mem.
bers stood concealed behind the lar
gest apple trees in the orchard, at the
east OF Miss Pettigrew's house. They
were No. = and No. II. These fig
ures glIttered on their cap-bands.
Within, on the other side of the
garnet door, Miss Pettigrew. in a
lowered dressing gown, stood listen
ing intemtly. The moonlight flooded
the old garnet. Stern and strong of
mind nc sLo v.,s Ni;ss po,+;,,ro,, "a.
noIl sLmII,, ,,,,-, 80, 80, 'Gr'
wos nov, - n.ortn ~. tx ~ 49, - ~
oil clnJ. ~ t%n LalI I,oiau. D oa,,. 'nI
rolled, and struck the hour. AT that
instant u faint creakiug was heard
80 | ~ C'T''I'',' NC star Q"or;
! in white stoIn IN anil sat dn,,=1 w., ~, -. -
mro,t how + was rn", ,.LoI.I Vs. q
sIrgh' shnddnrad Mis- Pats;rro,,: 81
declare I feel scorvi Ii.Il : S,,,u,
a. flint cro,l;n~ ,rLn dnnr 80 .ta
mysterious stn,r,yav ononoJ ynrtly o rn
a t;gnre ontercJ Il wns Grossoi ~ y
soldiers nnifnrm II woro = s,yord
| but its face It's awful face tHongb if
bore the features of . man. was If an
awful ehostlv white. ljus and all on.
iivcned only by two great black ewes
that glareI about them.
Miss Peitirrew shjvercj nnfl tho
door ratified. The next instant the
two ghosts ran into each others arms
Another instant and their door WAS
( opened with Il bang. and officer No.
- followed officer No. 74into the
garre;, each armed with u club.
Ghost or not. I'm quite safe now
said Miss Pettiorcw aud oreneJ n,o
garrett door with her Kerosene lamn
in her hand.
80 we've caught Won said Officer
No II.
And wen find how Ghosts like be;nc
locked mp IN Jail said Officer No II
rs nc pulled a wet handllercbief with
two holes in it from the GHOSTS face.
and revealed very pale human conn.
tcnance, alrned bv uuslicLo
which had most carefully waved roints
and, under other circumstances
might have been very fierce. indeed
.And this vounr ,yo,,,n ,orr sor
want most M, M, liz, 80, o". Te'-