The Springdale news., 1888-10-26

had q good view of the garden and rear of the building. It looked Hlio some gigantic fortress rising up in the darkness before him, with only solitary ligat dimly shining from one of the windows.
 Was it spirit of reckless adventure or some unknown impulse which prompted him to scale the wall! He was active, strong and bold, and the feat repaired but moments time.
 When he touched the ground he half be licved that he was on enchanted ground. He never stopped to think that he was an intruder who was endangering his life by coming here; though q feeling of supersti- tious awe, which he fought manfully to re- sist, kept creeping over him.
 For . moment he paused under thc very tree where he had seen the object of his af- fections bathad i'll tears To him 1t was hal lowed ground.
 'Oh, Bertha, Bertha, arc you still mIscr- able." he asked himself, fixing his eyes on
 the gloomy old castle-llle house He was inside the wall almost before he knew it, and did not find it very difficult to induce i himself to go quite up to the house and try to learn something of it's inmates. He fol- lowed path leading through a garden, un- der some ledfy bowers, until he came to the rear of that immense structure, where he halted
 In one Of the basement windows he now saw q second light. It was very dim light, and could not be seen a few wards from the building. Alien supposed it was i light used by some of the servants engaged in thelr household duties. Though he list ened long and carefully, no sound, not even the ticking of a clock, could be heard Long he stood gazing through the basement win dow down into the diuly-Hghted room.
 His perseverance, received it's reward at last. A pale, ghostil5e form III long white robe glided across the room. It made no moro noise than q feather being waited across the floor by the breath of Il playful child
 Despite his skepticism on supernatural quest tions, Allen felt cold ehills running up his spine. while his hair seemed to almost stand upon end. That light became paIer and more ghost-like. and he could hardly be- lieve he was not gazing upon beings of an- other world. Spell-bound he stood gazing at that mystic figure gliding as noiselessly about the room as if it tOated upon air. He put his hand upon the window which was half above and half below the surface of the ground, and found 1t protected by iron bars, etfectually preventing ingress or cgress.
 ]" 1As ho'se t} prtSe4" thought Allen. The old bastile could not have looked more grim and terrible than that house on this dark night.
 He went to another window which he also found barred, but 1t was so intensely dark within that he could at first sec nothing. As his eyes became more accustomed to the gloom, he made out all object, that seemed moving about within. Was it man or beast! Slowly 1t drew nearer and nearer to the window, until pair of great hollow eyes seemed gazing into his face. Was it man or monster. Never had he seen such | face, never beheld such blazing eyes, as now gIared at him from the darkness of that mysterious chamber Frozenw with | strange, unknown horror, the adyenturer stood gaz- ing into that face.
 Suddenly d wlld, dcmoniacal laugh seemed to shake the old building to it's foundation stones. The spell which chained Allen was broken, and he started back with half suppressed exclamation of terror.