New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-01-11
HOW CANE IT There.
BY MARGERY DEANE.

A1CS 0iiu ludue lOL OoloS1'cS LII
Belleville, just after we were married,
and that one thing marred it very lit
tie in the first years. It was a. trif1e-
merely that the next house was
reputed haunted, and being empty
presented rather a desolate appear.
tance. Neither Kate or I took much
stock in the villagetales ofghosts who
dwelt there; yet we often wished for
sneighbors and would have been glad
FOR some life at the blinded windows.
The two houses stood little back
from the village street. in pleasant
grounds, and were not hundred feet
apart. The haunted house was large
and handsome. The place was In the
: care of trusty gardener, who kept
the keys, entering at intervals the
rear door to see that the elements
were kept out. He cared for the
grounds and cultivated for himself
the large garden behind it.
Kate had more than once confided
to me that the place "gave her the
ereeps," and had comforted her by
the assurance that since the house
showed no decay and the grounds
were we'll kept up no neighbors were
vastly better than bad ones.
The house had been vacated many
ears before we came to Belleville.
Ae story ran that a stranger bought
OF its builderfor summer residence.
:cept that this stranger "looked like
ord" and was very austere in man
r, nobody could describe him, for
1obody could have the courage to ap-
,s'Ioach him. His young wife was
very beautiful Polish woman, who
spoke not word OF English. The two
usually talked in French, and as they
walked down the village street, con-
Versed SO earnestly together as to
seem unconscious of any one whom
they met or passed. Often there were
tears IN the great, black eyes OF the
lovely Pole, and frequently she had
been seen to burst into fit of weep
5ng while sitting on her veranda and
to 60 quickly into the house, her hand
Gerchlef pressed against her lace.
| can we'll understand the effect OF
this mysterious sorrow upon certain
people in the village, whose neighbours
Joys and woes are to them even great
or than their own. Unfortunately for
Bellevllle gosslps, neither the man SER
7ant nor the maid servant who came
With this couple could speak a word
ST English. This indeed was cruel.
1t was said by a workingman who
lade some repairs to the furniture
hlch had been brought in huge,
'reign-looking cases, that such fur
Ishlng had never been seen in Belle
lie; that there were rooms whose
walls we're hung wit silk damask with
huge flowers wrought upon it, and
shat the bed hangings were OF the same
rich stuff. The nurture new, all for
eign and carved. While people yet
wondered about the interior, it was
suddenly stripped Of all it's adorn-
1nent, and the big cases went off. The
gentleman and servants left town at
midnight, but it has been asserted
that the beautiful Polish lady never
was known to 60 away. She certain,
Sy was not left in the house, for half
the villagers trooped through it to
satisfy their curiosity, and then it
was shut up and thegardener kept the
keys.
How the story started that the
house was haunted I do not know.
'"~"ibly had { known all this, I
ave hesitated a little before
ur home, for Kate is a bit
and being physician I had
ner often at night. Thought
ons told her tales Of the
house, only one of which I
ID that said that the Polish
been seen at night to pass
Of the locked, closed door,
mo resistance to her.
late one night when our door,
lg and answered it myself. A
gentleman-I knew every man
in the villaee-asked me to
nd see very sick lady I beg
i to enter and sit down, while [
preparations to accompany
uring which asked
ere is the patient?'
is in the next house, he re-
ely, noti in the next house." I
red. THAT is empty. No one
;herel''
lie is in the next house, sir"
beg your pardon. l did not know
anyone had moved in" a
tie, overhearing us, entered the
Ind remarked a. little exctedly.
e is certainly no one next door.
Use is wholly unfinished.
l!' said the stranger, drawing
curtain, and pointing to the
Dry, where in the middle OF
were two brilliantly lighted
pale. 1t did not seem
at even a footstep on the
! could be have fallen I'M