St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-12-20
A GHOST STORY.
Mysterious Noises and Sepulchral
UtteranceS.
4 Haunted rortrai:--Iow and by Whom
the Ghost Was Lai,l-A Grateful
Maiden and Happy De-
nOuement.

We moved into house, mother.
Teddy, Rosaleen and |. | was Ursula
Despard, and Teddy, my fourteen-year-
old brother. The rent was SO reason
able that mother and FASTENED to sign
the papers, fearful that some one would
secure the bargain.
No. 2.0lS was just like the other
hous : in Il ~hlock. which is sufficiently
described in the term "a row of Phila-
delphiS bricks" We We're all going to
he very happy there. we knew. The
amount of rent was so much less than
we had expected TO pay that it would
enable Us to supply some much-covetcd
articles for Rosalcen'S trou>Seau Rosa
l@en. orr beauty. was Ia be married to a
naval officer: we had ONLY 80 much
monvE. and a naval oiiicer-well, one
knows the excessive style implied in
those words.
Ne congratulated ourselves upon Sc
curing such nice establishment from
which to launch our paragon. The LARGE
room on the first floor. which had egi-
IDENTITY been once used as an Office or
library, we converted into sitting
room. where, in the evening. We
gathered with our work or books. where
wc held council. or made ourselves easy
for I talk. Here. too. We wrote our
letters aud received intimate friends
1t WAS our home ruom-thc one room i'm
the house where we felt perfectly free
and unconStrained.
koSaloen' ; taking Of was but three
weeks distant, and 4 great amount of
sewing and doing and fixing caused us
To keep late hours. On SATURDAY night.
fati~ucd by Il week of continued Strur-
Cling with silks and SatinS. we left Rosa
leen 10 finish letter 10 her future lord
and master. Lieutenant Harry De Wire.
remember looking ai the clock in my
bedroom. which marked near ap-
proach to midnight. How long | had
been asleep know not. but it could not
have been long, when | was startled
from sleep hy a succession Of terrible
screams. | heard Rosalcen tearing up
stairs. | rushed out to meet her. and
She fell faintin- into my arms.
When RoSalecn recovered. she told us
that she had about finished her letter.
when She became conscious of a most
uncarthly. hollow groan. which she
could not compare with anything NOR
tai. 1t did not suggest a crash. or any
thing loud. but ii had deep, hollow.
soul-thrilling quality, which penetrated
every bone in her body. RoSaleen.
being coura TeouS. tried to convince her
self that it was Imagination. and so re-
manned. \ few moments of silence was
followed by an awful gathering of
chains. The element of noise entered |
into this sound; when RoSalecn started |
to rush from the room she heard, |
distinctly a> she ever heard in her life,
the words: Poison them
kosaleen was not superstitiouS. there I
tore 1 was surprised To observe the de- ;
pressing effect this incident had upon
her bright temperament She insisted it .
was 4 portent of evil. The rest of us /
pre>iSted in making light of the sounds.
nntn she gave us 10 understand that ii
was no Joking matter with her.
Monday night Teddy came home very
late, and mau-like went to the cup
board, obtaining some cake. then enter
lhg the slttng-room. began 10 eat. He
went to Harry 5 picture for some cause.
AGAIN was | aroused from s!unber as
ieaay Broke into my room. CRYING: /