The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-14

ercise of considerable ingenuity / sue
ceeded in making her forget the tragedy
of her life. bat if was only fora moment.
The demon that made this house a Top
het would always interfere at the
proper time. Qae day when Elsa had
laughed quite heartily q small rocking
chair which sat neal her was taken up
and slammed down with force enough to
shatter 1t But there wasn't a scratch on
it. In fact, nothing was ever injured
excepting neryes-that l was aware of.
One day as / was taking my coat off in
the hall the same icy hand was drawn
slowly across my face. 1t gave me such an
intense headache that | was obliged to
90 home and 90 to bed. For three days [
was not able to sit up and when | next
called on Mrs. Hamilton the change in
her was something frightful. Her us
band had been on q protracted spree
and Mary told me that for two days they
had really not had necessary food. Mrs.
Hamilton looked starved and pinched
and frightened to death. The noises in
the house had been almost ineessant
and of a more terrifying character than
usual. | used every argument to induce
Mrs. Hamilton to 90 home to her par
ents, but she would not consent.
"Imarried against my parents wishes"
she said, land / will bear all the con-
sequences"
at was plain to me that she would
not live to bear much more, and l told
her so.
sob do you think so?' she asked with
a radiant smile.
"But things only come out in such
nice ways in novels" she added weari-
ly, after a pause.
"One evening, as | was just about to
ring the door-bell, Hamilton stumbled
up the steps. Awful glad to see you,
old boy he said. 4 was just telling the
fellows that there wasn't anybody IN
town who had SO little responsibility as
l had-another man to take care of my
wife, 90 off when / like"
"And you didn't brain him?" Jack
Wilder interrupted.
"No, 1 didn't notice him-then," was
the quiet answer.
"Mrs. Hamilton lay on the lounge
when we entered the sitting o and
Mary was bathing her hands.
"Ghost been around AGAIN." Hamil-
ton asked with a sheer
'She has had another of these SPELLS"
Mary said to me, and / knew she meant
the strange ~trance-like condition that /
told you about.
"She was sitting in the kitchen with
me and was talking kinder bright and
| coy like and she commenced to sing a
hymn-tune out of u book that / had
there, and the first thing / knew she
was like one dead and laid out. / for
one am not going to stay in this house
another day." turning to Hamilton as
she spoke.
"You can go, too,," he replied with a
6evilish laugh.
"I've served my time out there" the
girl answered. Then Hamilton stag
gered out into the dining room and, eff
ter tipping over two or three chairs,
managed to seat himself at thes table.
Then / told Mary to 90 up stairs and
pick anything that was valuable that be-
longed to her mistress, but to be back
in two minutes with wraps for both. /
don't believe three minutes had elapsed
| before Mrs. Hamilton wa wrapped up
and In my arms and we were ready to
start. My carriage was at the door. |
had decided that Mary should take a
room at the hotel for the night and
would drive Mrs. Hamilton to her faith
ers house, willing OF unwilling. She
was unconscious now and / hoped she
would keep so until we were we'll on
our way. / had almost reached the
front door when Hamilton was upon
me, apparently as sober es ever a nan
was in the world. / had sat one arm.
but, boys, I used that to advantage.
| Hamilton fell with an awful thud against
the stairs and then we went our way.
l am sure / do not know how / ever got
| that poor little. creature to her fathers
house. She did not come to her senses
till she wa almost home, and then not
entirely, and consequently was
a dead weight in my arms for
twenty long miles. Her parents
were frightened out of their wits by her
unexpected appearance and they. were
naturally a good deal suspicious OF me,
but | told them the whole truth n
had the satisfaction of knowing that
they believed me-"
when did you see Mrs. Hamilton
again?"W was the next question, in so SYM
pathetic a voice that Macomber reached
over and shook hands with his compan-
ions.
Il never saw her again; she died in
less than a month"
"And Hamilton?'
"In Mexico / believe"
"And the house?'
1.-TWO families have tried to live there
since, but they were soo driven out"
"Have you ever had any of those
| strange experiences SINGER"
"Never, and / no not believe lever
| shall; but / have learned, boys, TO say
with Hamlet, that there are more
things in heaven than was eVer dreamt
of in our philosophy."-Eleanor Kirk.
A Tony Prisoner.