Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-11-16

water TO her mistress.
"Are Won afraid to sleep alone?"
"No, I'm not afraid"
"Then why do you gish it?"
No answer; only very earnest look.
"Why, Stillwell, you look as if you
had seen ghost" said her mistress,
laughingly.
ayes, ma'am, have" she replied,
very quietly.
s'And what did it look likef"
"Like Mrs. X--iust as she vas of
afternoons"
Come, come she ought to have
been all IN white, you know"
"No, she was not in white. She had
on the same sort of cap she always
wore, and the same dress and white
apron"
81 hope you asked her what she
wanted"
"No, ma'am; lay still and looked
at her, and then sat up and looked al
her hard, and presently | could not see
her"
at was no doubt a dream, and you
will probably never have such an
other"
"No, ! am sure it was not dream
Besides, I have seen her twice before
when | was walking about"
"Out of doors"
''No, ma'am; in the house. One
afternoon, toward dusk, she came and
looked at me through the window.
wond erred how she could be there, anC
| looked at her for a good little time.
"And them"
"And then she was not there. And
went to the window and look ed out
but she was gone"
"What was the use Of going to the
window, when you knew she was
dead?'
Il don't know. She looked just as /
she was alive. The other time | was
kneeling down on the rug, making
your 6Ie burn up. She passed straigh
before me-"
"Oh, nonsense She would have Sc
fire to her clothes"
Still looked injured, but quietly per
sisted;
"She did, ma'am. She passoC
straight between me and the fire."
Glow could she do that? Really
Still, for a sensible young woman, yor
are very full Of fancies."
at was not a fancy, either Of the
times, ma'am ! did see her; / did
indeed. 1 hope you will believe"
Eyes, / quite believe that you thinl
you saw Mrs. ". You may have
your sister to sleep with YOU
! Now, it is not pleasant thing TO
any man, still less one of my profes
sion, to confess that he has fel
"creepy" on account of certain mex
plicable sounds. But, rs this is a per
fectly true account, | am compelled t
acknowledge that it happened to mt
again and again, during the time o
| my dwelling in the Old Lodge. And
also declare that my wife and / were
perfectly well in health, and that WI
had never before been the victims o
similar terrors. Furthermore, though
we spoke of the noises, we at first alb
stained from mentioning our sensation
to each other.
After an hours sleep | would b,
aroused, as if at the command of SOM
person, unseen indeed, but certalnl,
in the room. Then small som ething
say a marble, would be gently dropped
more than once, on the carpet, close a
my bedside, sometimes on the floor
cloth just outside the open door. Thel
the marble would be gently rolled il
the border of the room and up agains
the skirting board.
1t was an immense relief when, on
{ night, we encountered each other
= eyes as we lay listening, and bot
made clean breast of our terrors
, Yes, nothing short Of that word wi
do. We agree that the first suffere
shall wake the other. But my vii
t found it not always possible to carr
out this determination.
"What did you heal?" | asked he
once.
| "The chest of drawers was dragge
over the floor" she replied. 81 al
thankful you spoke to me, for | hay
| for some time been trying to wax
/ YOU, but ! was not allowed to do St
g In fact, | have been kept perfect
motionless."
J.. | had heard precisely the sam
, sound, yet the drawers did not apes
to have been actually moved. Th
sounds were so distinct that we alway
t connected them with some speci
a article. Now, it was a chair, or th
o towel-horse that was moved. Now,
c was the loud swapping of thick site
Y il the hall. Now, it was violent bio
d on the hall table, struck as if with N
Y own walking stick, which | remen
o bered to have left there, and which
y found there in the morning. Once, Il
heaviest book on my writing-tau'e a
e peared to dropped, as if from II
e height of man, on the floor-cloth
,r the hall Then q smaller one. | q
ways myself shut the doors of Il
if rooms leading into the hall.
n Oicourse, tried in every way to q
1t count for the mystery, but after tim
could only resign myself to lie awak
If and wonder. The nights were bite
{, cold. On one occasion, when there hi
been persistent dropping of nuts in
d corner of the room, jumped up,
p despera ton, and held the light clio
to the spot. N a second the sour
" was behind me, | whisked round, b
ir tapping to the right of me, tappil