The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1881-11-10
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AN AFFECTING TRIAL.
A Tremendous Ghost Story. sas
Told by ABaartae6to


in Saint Andrews, a beautiful Canadian,
named Pemigawassett McKirchenthum-
bach, the 1ovliest flower that ever grew in
the sunshine and showers, clraste as Diana,
true as Penelope; the violets paled IL 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 her bangs down into her eyes
like the foretop Of a Shetland pony, and
the mi-occasional fogs Of her native land
kept down the freck1es and the tan. She
wore good clothes and moved il the high
est circles. She embroidered her own num-
Der one and half moccasins, and was the
belle Of the singing school. Her father
owned more acres Of spruce and pine
lands than he could couns in a month; he
could get out enough ships knees in
day to build United States navy and two
schooners, and was rich and proud.
He sat in the best pew in the church,
and responded louder and contributed
smaller than any other member Of the con-
gregation, and possessed all the ear-marks
Of a wealthy man. One day a man named
machinac--Pierrepon 7. Michili-
machinac-came down from the up-riyer
country with a load Of pelts. He was a
mighty hunter, and every year he captured
by trapping, shooting and sWindling the
untutored Indians, enough furs to control
the market, and he was a growing mon
opoly. He wore plug hat and shirt
that buttoned behind, and hung his 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 he wanted some fair
maiden to go 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. 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 go.
|Straightway the Michilimachinac led her
to her father and told the umpire he had
been put out on 8 foul. The old man bent
his brows upon the rebe1lious girl, ''You'd
otter have him, :" hesaid. SsHThat fur, - re-
piled the maid. ssBecause it would be very
gratifying to me, y said her papa, 81 can
not bear to think Of it," she said. 'SBut
you are very deer to me, u put in her lover.
E"That's where the gazelle comes in,''
sighed the maiden. 'sI'm afraid you're
lion to me" "Make 'ermine,' the lover
said And the old man said he would, and
Icalled for some mink and paper to draw up
La settlement. But PemigeWasset simply
|said: ''Thou art SO near and yet 80 fur, -
and left the room.
There was another. A youthful sailor
man, with straw hat and wide trowsers,
and a broad collar with anchors worked on
it in white thread, and lovely yacht club
buttons-George Augustine saskatche-
wan. He was daisy. He played on the
mouth organ and danced the racket divine
ly; he knew all the new songs on the
street, got 5000 a year, and spent every
cent of it on clothes. And when the old
man found out there was previous attach
ment 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
bis hairpin (or words to that ehect), and
that was the kind Of a girl she was. And
inasmuch as it was not pleasant for George
to visit PemigeWasset st the house, as he
didn't feel able to feed her fathers dog
three times week out Of his scanty salary
and sensitive legs, these devoted young
people used towander clear out to the lane
and meet when the moon was full, and
when it was gibbous, and when it was
half, and when itwaned into the last quar-
ter, and when there wasn't enough moon
to excuse gas company. And so one
night, while he bent hi5 head to gaze into
the happy face that was nestled against his
breast, there was a moving shadow BY the
rock that was not cast by the waving hem
locks, the cold, cruel glitter Of steel in the
starlight, and the heart throbbing SO warm
~ beneath the cheek of the girl was still,
and she held her lover in her arms only to
see the love light in his dear eyes die out
in the CLASSY stare Of death. A mocking
laugh from a voice she knew and hated
Jared on her soul.
1t appears that the rejected rival, Pierre
pont r. Mic11ilimiehinac, had taken a
boWie-knife two inches wide and foot
and half long and tapped George for
laudable pus, penetrating the periheIion at
the base Of the cardiac apothegna by q lat
eraE incision bearing sou'west, half west,
through the metaearpal phalaages inapo-
gee with the base Of the fifth rib.
The treaeherous sMichilirnachinac fled to
| the north wood, and In the following month
ate himself up with wild bear, and the
Indians gobbledsup all his skins, Pemige-
Wasset got herself to a nunnery, and fol-
lowed her lover to. the Summer land in a
few months. The stern parent, having bit
off q little more stock than he could masti-
cate Went=on Change to unload one day,
and got caught on q falling market and
skinned alive. And to this day, when the
bell in the castle tolls the hour of midnight
two ghastly figures wander down the lane