Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-31

came tnt0iheayy contact Wi ia aVhat felt
like gigantic human figure. Prescott
and Ellen hurried into theI room and be-
held me wildly graphing, Srpatehtly with
nothing atAH. "By J0yeRs said Prescott,
she has g0tirthem." "Themr Els believe
meant sop8s kind of halluoin&uQns upon
which Prescott professed to be AN, author
ity, but Was ruggmgfuri0bsly with
my unseen antagonist, and badh6 breath
for explanations. g" q
"Seize hiBE seize himlv Il cniexi.
At that moment my prey burst from me-
hurting me With prodigiousNAoIsnee across
Inc room, bee cd d.JU a.
Prescott rushed forward aud as he did
so was tripped up by what he afterward
described as heavy kick from an unseen
foot, and sent sprawling on the floor. For
tuuatelY | was PROSTATE at the other end
of the room, and could not be suspected Of
having had hand or foot in this out
rage. ,s
AS we struggled to our feet, while Ellen
stared wildly about, we all heard two or
three hurried steps as of a man running,
there was tremendous crash, and all was
still But the curtains had swung violent
ly back into the window, and the window
itself, plate glass, frame and all, was burst
clean away outward,
Prescott was as white as a sheet, and
the sensible and strOng-miuded Ellen was
actually crying, which impressed me more
than anything else in he scene.
LET us leave this horrible house." she
said; something worse will happen if we
stay"
But was filled with an unreasonable
kind of courage of having, as it seemed,
put our ineXplicable visitor 10 flight; and
| was besides conscious of a certain de-
gree of pride in the assurance that Pres
colt had been converted, and would
hardly talk again about my having "got
them"
1--WE can't go tonight l said, "and as
orr gentleman seems to have taken him.
self off for the present, we bad better con-
slider what's 10 be done next. / am sure
Prescott wants to stay and investigate the
phenomenon"
We shut the shutters over the wreck of
the window, aud sat talking over the
event until late at night. BY degrees con-
triYed TO lntuse into my companions some
of my courage, and at last, no further
disturbance having taken place, we all
Went TO bed in pretty good spirits. placed
a loaded dOu bic barreled pistol on the table
by my bedside, thinking that if Il ghost
could be struggled with he ought TO te
able to be shot, and PRESCOTT placed with
in reach a large bowie knife,which he had
brought back from America, and had long
been wishing iOran opportunity TO make
use Of. .1t loD
When l awoke thought my last hour
had come. My throat was tightly grasped
by two extremely strong hands. A crush
ing weight was on my chest. / tried to
shout but could not. l was rapidly being
stranRled. And as lay writing, my eyes
forced half out of their sockets, glared
through the light Of the nishthxht at the
opposite wall, which looked precisely az
usual, except thar, as the squeezing of
my throat grow more and more intolera-
BILE, my view of the room slowly dark
eued. But of the horrible and only too
/ palpable form that was killing me | could
see no trace. In unaVailng despair !
clutched at the iron wrists that held me
down. In another moment / believe |
should have become unconscious. Then
a last CLEAN of hope, the thought Of my
pistol, flashed through my mind.
stretched out my hand, and as l lay
could just reach the end of the barrel. /
drew il toward me, and with an expiring
effort pushed the muZZle of it close
against what | took to be the invisible
body Of my t0rmentOr and fired. We
never found the bullet or any trace of it
/ afterward. Instantly the hands relaxed
their grip on my throat little, and with
violent effort | wrenched my neck away;
then heavy body fell sideways from my
/ bed to the ground, and | fell. too. Crap
! ping with it. At that moment Ellen and
! Prescott, who had been aroused by the
sound of the shot, burst into the room.
There they saw me struggling, partly on
the floor, and partly'kneeling, apparently
on space. They rushed to my assistance.
Both of them felt the thing, both OF them
grappled with it. The struggles of our
enemy became fainter. Managing to get
one hand free, l rep0sseesed myself OF the
pistol, which mad fallen on the floor. and
emptied the second barrel into what
judged to be the breast OF the spectre.
fired straight downward, apparently at
the floor, but of that bullet we saw no
more than of the other. Meanwhile Pres
cptt stabbed furiously with tue bowie
knife, aud each time he dashed the blade
down its progress was arrested before it
reached the carpet. Then the struggles
ceased and nothing was heard except our
rapid painting. We were all kneeling on
and holding down what looked like space
and telt like the form Of tall and ath-
lectic man.
"We've done for it, whatever it is," said
! hoarsely.
Prescott hurst into a foolish giggle.
by J0vev he said, ''we'll make a cast
of it and see what It's like"
AS he spoke the form OF our victim was
agitated by desperate CONFUSION, which
shook us all of Before we could seize it
again deep groan burst from 1.-The place
WuSIe we Adu uelu ~ ana tue Hpfu Let
ticel" rang through the r0pIn in tone Of
sepulchral melancholy. Then there was
silence. pN ~
1 threw myself on the fleor-4not, as
had intended, on the. PROSTATE fiuure. We
seached the room. and then the house,
hut we could find absolutely nothing. !
Nor from that day % this has any one, % |
the best Of my knowledge, seea, heard. or
felt anything whatever Of this ghastly be- |
ing. AGO.
After much consideration we deter
mined to keep the adventure 90 ourselves, |
for d time at any rate, Indeed, it was /
only last sumner, when we mad lived In |
the house for "a good number Of years /
without any kind OF 2hOstlY interruption, /
that described the circumstances herein /
narrated % my wife. She doesn't believe /
them. and I am sorry told h r.
Was it the gh0st 0f Ronald Massey? Did /
70 voluntarily depart aud leave us alone |
because IT, considered that the annoyances |
n had inflicted upoumy ancestors aud me |
were sufficient, and that The tale OF us /
vengeance upon our house the wrongs, .
whatever they were inflicted upon Rom 1
aid in his lifetime by Andrew and Let
tce, was cOmpleteg Or did we actually /
XIII IL? Perhaps We did. He was poor
weak creature when be was allYe.-Ihe 4
COrnhiH Magasiae. ras