Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-02

full OF groceries. She carried a broom
and new scrubhing- brush. It vas q
wonderful, grand, dirty old place. We
set to work to clean ito drive out the
insects and the rats; and we got some
fresh straw to sleep on, for the beds
were all moldering away. That nigh
at 8 we lay down with lamp burn
ing, and went to sleep like two tops
and think it musthave been II o'clock.
or nigh to it, when Jane shook me viz
lently. I started up, and, holding each
others hands, we both saw what had
frightened her.
A man stood near the bed, young
man, with fair hair curling about his
| temples; his breast was bare, ard we
saw great bleeding wound there. I
had my pistol under my pillow, and L
drew it out and looked at him.
GO, or fire." said; "Pm not
fool to be tricked in this way"
Instead of obeying he slowly moved
| toward the bed. Jane shrieked AMI
drew the counterpane over her head. [
covered him with the pistol.
Gone step more and fire." said.
He took the step. 1 fired. 4 shrek
of laughter followed, and there was no
one there. I arose and searched the
place. Every window was barred, every
door locked. I unlocked one of the
/ doors, and entered the adjoining loom.
A great bed, with tester and canopy,
stood there, and upon this lay the figure
of Il woman, all in white, covered with
blood. I rushed toward it, lamp in
hand. Again those hollow shrieks Ct
laughter, and nothing but the stained
and yellow ticking Of an old feather bed
lay under the canopy,
"Silas Silas !" screamed my wife,
who had followed ne, clinging to my
arm. ct is all true. Let us leave the
place"
Jane" said I, sit seems to be true
that this place is haunted, but We have
r;sked cur all on it. The things we
lave seen have not hurt Us, and pro-
pose to drive them away. I'll take you
! TO the village, if You like, and leave
you there to board, but here I stsy IN
til I beat these ghosts"
"Not alone" said Jane. And she did
not leave me.
# you believe NE, friend, day and
night :or three weeks we were haunted
as people never were before - faces,
voices, hands in the house and in the
field and, worse than all, We grew sick.
I sent for the doctor, who wouldn't
come and we went to him.
"You are poisoned" he said. "What
have you eaten, or what have you been
drinking?"
We thought it over, and I told him
that we knew of nothing harmful, ami
that we cooked and prepared all our own
food.
81 never knew any one to pass day
at that confounded house you live
in without being affected in this way"
said he; "even those who did not eat
there. Constable Collins says lie touched
nothing but cold water, ard he cai49
near dying"
cts the well, then,' said I.
"They used to call it the best well in
the county," said the doctor.
L" It has a nasty taste now," said 7.
"Tll beg of my neighbors until I've
cleaned it out"
And that day I began. Wegot better
! slowly, and I tried to hire two farm
hands to help me with my well. Not
one would be hired. 1 was weak from
sickness, and to tell the truth, it seemed
as if the old boy himself was in the
: place. l was almost tired of living as ]
did, and, feeling like maniac; and one
day [ went down to the well, and sat
Gl4SICJ MOAlS1l1l5 MLOtACl IL Lily IL IAOI
. be best to give up and so somewhere,
as farm laborer, when I felt what seemed
to be an icy hand on my head, and,
looking up, saw my two ghosts, side by
side. They were horrible enough, can
tell you, and they looked at me- and
pointed into the well and then I heard
two voices crying:
! "Get us out Get us out Get us out
and bury us The water is cold, and
our wounds are deep. Get US out.
And then the truth came to me,
Heaven knows how.
: Iwent over to my neighbor's house,
just able to crawl there, and said to
him
j "Mr. Jarvis, will you send one Of
your men to the people they ought to
so to, and have the police go to my
place? There's something in my well
that ought not to be there"
Well, they came, and I was right.
They took out of that well two bodies
rolled up in sheet lead. By bits of jew
elry, and things Of that sort, they found
out that they were the bodies Of the
Young wife of the old proprietor and the