The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-18
A Real Ghost Story .

Real Ghost story.
burlington Hdtokeye
Once upon a time there lived maiden In
Saint Andrews, a beautiful Canadian named
PemIgewasset McKirchenthumbach, the low
liest flower that ever grew In the sunshine
and showers, chaste as Diana, true as Pencil
ope the vioets paled In the blue of her eyes,
and pearls sold for second choice In the pools
when she smiled ivory white was her broad,
high brow, for she didn't comb the bangs
down into her eyes like the foretopof Shet-
land pony, and the semi-occasional fogs OF
her native land kept down the freckles and
the tan. She wore good clot'es, and moved
Ia the highest circles; she embroidered Ler
own number one-and-a-half moccasins and
was the bell of the singing-school. Her fl
ther owned more acres of spruce and pire
nds than he could count in month; lie
Id get out enough ships knees In day 10
Id United States navy and TIVE schoor =
y, and was rich and proud. lie sat in the
best pew In the church, and responded loud
or and contributed smaller than any other
member of the congregation, and possessed
all the other ear-marks of a wealthy man.
One day, man named Michilimachinac-
Pierrepont 7. Michilimachinac-came down
from the up-riyer country with a load OF
pelts. He was mighty hunter, and every
year he captured by trapping, shooting, and
swindling the untutored Indians, enough
furs TO control the market, and he was q
growing monopoly. He wore aplug hat, and
shirt that buttoned behind, and hung bis
watch-chain outside his coat. He was mashed
on Pemigewasset in the first inning. He
was a lonely man, he said. He took her
hand In his, and said be wanted some fair
maiden TO 90 with him and stay In the north
woods about nine months in the year, and
help him skin beaver, and mink, and otter,
and fox, and certain varieties of cats and
bears, and cook for him, and help him to
bamboozle the Indians out Of their pelts, and
pack the furs for him, and help him down
the river with them. Would she fly with
himp She shook her wealth of golden hair
and told the hunter he was away off his base,
and she would see him fur-der before she'd
20. Straightway the Michilimachinac led
her to her father, and told the umpire that
he had been put out OH foul. The old man
bent his brows upon the rebellions girl.
"You'd otter have him." he said. "What
furp" replied the maiden. Because IL
would beavery gratifying TO me-" said her
papa. al can not bear TO think of it," she
said. "But you are very deer to me-" put In
her lover. "Thats where the gazelle comes
in," sighed the maiden; am afraid you're
lion to me-" "Make 'ermine," the lover
said. And the old man said he would, and
called for some mink and paper TO draw up
the settlement. But Pemigewasset simply
said: Thou art so near and yet SO fur"
and left the room. There was Another. A
youthful sailor man, with a straw hat and
wide trousers, and a broad collar with an
chors worked on II with white thlead, and
lovely yacht-club buttons-George Augustus
Saskatchewan. He was daisy. He played
on the mouth-organ and danced the racket
divinely, knew all the new songs of the
street, got nine hundred dollars year and
spent every cent Of 1t on his clothes. And
when the old man found out the previous at
tachment there was circus. But the brave
girl stuck TO George, and said If the old man
didn't like George he needn't marry him, but
as for her, she was his harpin Tor words 10
that eiiect), and that was the kind of girl
SHE was. And inasmuch rs IL was not pleas
ant for George TO visit Pemieewasset at the
house, rs he didn't feel able 10 feed her ia
theirs dog three times week out of his
scanty salary and sensitive legs, these de-
voted young people used TO wander clear out
to the lane and meet when the moon was
full, and when 1t was gibbous, and when IL
was half, and when Ii waned into the last
quarter, and when there wasn't even enough
moon to excuse gas company. And 50 enc
night, while he bent Ills head 10 gaze into the
happy face that was nestled against his
breast, there was moving shadow by the
rocks that was not cast by the waving hem
locks, the cold, cruel glitter Of steel In the
starlight, and the heart throbbing so warmly
beneath the cheek of The girl was still, and
she held her lover In her arms only TO see
the love-lght in his dear eyes die out in the
CLASSY stare of death. A mocking laugh
from voice she knew and hated Jared on
her soul. 1t appears that the rejected rival,
Pierrspont I. Michilimachinac, had taken .
bowie knife tive inches wide and two feet
and ahalf long, and tapped George for laud.
abls pus, penetrating the periheiion nj the
base Or the cardiac apsihega by lateral In
cisien, bearing sou'rest BY west, through the
nstacarpal phalangss In sPcgee with the
base OF the ffth rib. The treacherous Mich
ilinachiuac fed 10 the nenh weed, and In
the following month ate himself up with .
wild bear, and the Indians gobbled all his
skins. peIalgewasset got her 10 nunnery,
and followed her lever to the summer land
10 o few months. The stern parent having
bit OF little more stock than he could mas
ticats, went on Change TO unload enc day,
aud rot caught On . falling market and
skinned alive. And TO this day, when the
bell In the castle tolls the hsur Of midnight,
two ghostly figures wander down the lane
with the skating-rink glide affected by ghosts,
and the shadow or this rock the lady ghost,
On hsr Bonded knees, lifts her clasped hands
In the passionate eloquence of voiceless mp
peal y The glittering stars, while her shad
owy agnre kends ovsr the PROSTATE phantom
stretched before her, staining the crushed
ferns with tho crimson current Of life.