The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-06-27

snIatsAaNo wsifregulated young woman
ever loves 4 man until she is married to
him 49, s@
know shonldn't love old Peckley
sn Nas married forty times over to
Mm!s sndaciously rejoined Flora,
wherSnpon her papa and mamma cried
Observation-Disclosures and Flora was .pnt
adoWneeAt once s
sReally, said MI. Gage, aFlora has
behaved very well. / didn't think the
child had 40 much sense
Fred Templeton was hero this
morning. Z, said Mrs. Gage, gloonily.
W ELL III him GOMEZ She'll be safe
married 70 Peck1ey by this time to-
m0frOw.
But they made M appointment to
90 ont to visit the, haunted house by
moonlight this evening.
ssIzssknow Il; but Peckley has gone
With them sly dog. that-sly old
dostls andSMrss Gage chnckled compla-
WhilS Ibis coningal tetesa.tete was
trAnspiiltng at the Gage mansion the,
hflde-eIect was wandering yer the de-
BertBd rponas0 81 the old haunted house,
the Valheyssbe1ow, with Fred Temple
ton 81 hArssids and Philo Peckley trudg-
ing behind. BEEF
II really haunted? said Mr.. Peck
10y, stopping TO wipe his damp brow,
D i he had been walking briskly, al
though il was q December day.
aOh, there can be no doubt about it,
raid Miss Gage.Nobody has occu-
pied the premises in twenty years. It's
3 ghost all I'M white that Hits throughthe
gsupperrponl and wrings it's hands.
Shall We turn back r. said Mr.. Tenn
pleton,squietly.
s1IInrn back n~onsenselu cried Peck
10y, 4 Why. I'd ii soon go over the
whole house NY myself as not
Not intothe haunted garrett"
aWhaA haunted garrett? demanded
Peckley
ltes gerret,a said Templeton, with.
s#sreatssoieplnity where the ghostlurksl
nnaonggsAhe ruinous beams. and where
;sstranga sounds appall the chance
fpassBBrss9 s8 s@sS&
Mr.. PeckIey's eyes sparkled. HI was
quite aware that he was rather lacking
Ia theromantio e1enent-here was m
opportunity for him to outshiine that
young scoundrel of Templeton.
Come on!oo he cried, ayou shall see
for ypnrselyesi I'll & three times
around tle garrett, all alone; you shall
heartte sound OF my ootsteps. Ghosts,
indeed WhatMonsense Y
Well, II you really have courage
began Templeton.
NJ sPeckleys only reply was mn up-
ward scramble which made the Iuinous
rOundss0f theiadder squeak violently.
But his blood chilled q little, neverthe-
less, as he heard the retreating footsteps
S0f Mr.sTempletoa descending the lad.
aeT The huge beams of the garnet,
adraped withswaning ~festoons ofscobweb
the vague shimmering reflections Of
the Moonlight on the door, the MOURN
fnl wllistling of hewinterWind through
the chinnaey-stneks, which rose up like
q monster mausoleum IN the syery CEN
ter Of the place. ii none of them4of the
most nnirth4iinspirfng order, md as PhiIa
stood with phattering teeth in tho mid.
die u the noor d hinge black rat skur
lied scfoss, like IA imp Of darkness.
close ii his very feet
Three several times Mr. Peckley
- - .1.sI - $500 y < ! coNslsIi
syes: Pa,lsaSs ana ears that
. .;nas NUS. snra e % sdlssmDodled
J then re He'd precipltately to
ne rap.uoor and = TO pull il
III
s,,Slsns - wsoald not Yield e his strength.
low. IIempleton Tam-ple-ton-n-nll
sFioraI 2 Gagets Hello-o- say.
@ tas erhoe weird and wild, re-,
turned ms osltcry, and b there was a
ghoiio@ horror ct silence over all.
Anlr.Peekiey scralabledto his feet and
ram tlle end window, which com.
snlaided q view of The road beyond the
2 r I, belt of the l~eafless
trees There they were, Fred and
siGras aTms1nsarm, descending the road
gH6g 6G0X1lv4 Al 1ASa1 TwAiIa ha--Phi1n 4