The Arkansaw traveler., 1882-09-03

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 II kissed her and then VIC >ta',,ti home. Noi wnrd ef ,h,, did say 'u father. but when at home alon. ~ilh mother and grandmother ,old ,heia the whole truth. Mother w,as IT hncd to be- leyo tha, had fanicd on ,he stars. ba' knew grandma behcse ed me and heard her t i mo Ter. when she though, v.- asleep. that she had heard there Na, some,h.ns out ot the way about the house. and II she had been a, home should never have gone there. T. was weeks be fore l so, strong. and years passed before l coald bear to step into .a dark room. vas never again thc brave s3tl had beet before ,ha, night of terror on the stars oi the Brown house.
 The Ho;ehkss family did no, stay there long They ba,lt house h Ko<b4s Tie 1id iir6ws. hrJ,sc str',d ,.,;gfr:1 for nearly ,wo years, and ~as then tom down. When the warkmen were tcaung down the house they found lust back oi the starr d ,rap-deor leading into A dar., hole ely gudey the stairway. They wondered what !; could have been used f,r. a, there vas ID other outlei and no window bu, when upon dlsglug there for ! foundation ;a the f1eS house l. be bltlt. |