The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-12-11
A GHOST STORY.
Mysterious Noises and Sepulchral
Utterances.
Haunted Portrait How and by Whom
the Ghost Was Laid--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.
Go 2,018 was just like the other
houses in block, which is sufficiently
described in the term ga row of Phila-
delphia bricks.n We were all going to
be 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-coveted
articles for Rosaleen's trousseau. Rosa
leen, our beauty, was to be married to a
naval officer; we had only so much
money, and naval officer-well, one
knows the excessive style implied in
those words!
We congratulated ourselves upon Sc
curing such nice establishment from
which to launch our paragon. The large
room on the first floor. which had eVi-
IDENTIFY been once used as an office or
library, we converted into a sitting
room, where, in the evening, we
gathered with our work or books, where
we held council, or made ourselves easy
for talk. Here, too, we wrote our
letters and received intimate friends.
IL was our home room-the one room in
the house where we felt perfectly free
and unconstrained.
Rosaleen's 5 taking Off was but three
weeks distant, and great amount of
sewing and doing and fixing caused us
TO keep late hours. On Saturday night,
fatigued by week of continued strug-
Cling with silks and satins, we left Rosa
leen to finish letter to her future sslord
and master. Lieutenant Harry De Wire.
remember looking at the clock in nv
bedroom, which marked near an
proach to midnight. How long I had
been asleep | know not, but it could not
nave been long, when was startled
Hom sleep BY a succession of terrible
screams. ] heard Rosaleen tearing up
STAIRS. rushed out to meet her, and
she fell fainting into my arms.
When Rosaleen recovered, she told us
tnat she had about finished her letter,
When she became conscious of most
anearthly, hollow groan, which she
could not compare with anything NOR
tai 1t did not suggest a crash, or any
thlng loud, but it had deep, hollow,
soul-thrilling quality, which penetrated
every bone in her body. Rosaleen,
pelng courageous, tried to convince her.
sen that it was imagination, and so re-
named A few moments of silence was
aolloWed BY an awful clattering of
chalns. The element of noise entered
INTO this sound; when Rosaleen started
g rush from the room she heard.
ulshnetly as she ever heard in her life,
she words: '.Poison them!'
Rosaleen was not superstitious. there
lofe was surprised to observe the de-
pressing effect this incident had upon
ner bright temperament She insisted it
vas portent of evil. The rest of us
presisted in making light of the sounds,
anea she gave us to understand that it
vas no joking matter with her.
Monday night Teddy came home very
49, ana man-like went to the cup
a, obtaining some cake, then enter
49, ,.,s me salttingg-room, began to eat. He
saa @ Harry's picture for some cause,
T<ssa Tsssn was aroused from slumber as
as' OFoke into my room, crying