The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-05-05

Pm bound to use Nelly's money for her schoolin', ye seel"
 "But I shall go too !" announced lit- tie Miss Kathie, as she went of to bed.
 "Did ye iver see the bate O that now?" exclaimed Barry half admir- ingly, half in despair.
 Mrs. Barry shook her head solemnly and took up her mending. The next day when Nelly was told what was in store for her, she joined Kathie in en- treaties that her sister might go, or she remain at home. But it was set tied, and Nelly was only solaced by the sight of some new clothes, while Kathie went about with gloomy, determined air, making her unlike her usual cheery little self.
 "Kathie," said her father that even- ing, as they all sat around the fire, Eye mind there's some apples in the outside cupboard. Bring in a plate full"
 "Bring lem all in a basket" added her mother. "They'll freeze out there."
 Kathie obeyed with her usual promptness, and they heard her hum little school song as she dropped the apples into the basket and shut the cupboard door. Then, suddenly she gave an unearthly, blood-curdling scream, and burst in at the door with looks of terror, scattering the apples in all directions as the basket fell. They all sprang up and exclaimed at once:
 "What is it, me darlin'?"
 "It's-a-man! gasped Kathie, in
 terrified accents. "An awful lookin' mani"
 "Where?" choroused the boys and their father.
 "He-he was by the woodpile-and and he raised his arm-so." The
 child struck stage attitude in imita-
 tion of his manner. MT. Barry and
 the boys rushed out at once, but could
 see no man, or the traces of any. They returned to the house bafiied over the
 mystery, and questioned Kathie
 closely, but she appeared to have been
 thoroughly frightened, and could add
 nothing to her first account. A day or
 two passed and kathie had overcome
 her terror, in a degree, when one
 evening she stepped out to pick up
 few chips for morning. Again her
 scream of fear startled the family, and
 brought them to the door to see her frantically pointing vaguely, as she cried "That horrid, horrid man." Again search was made with no better result than before. Several times during the next two weeks this was repeated. No one saw the "horrid man." but Kathie, and she was never alone at dusk but what she saw him with the same sense of terror. "It's my honest belafe," said Barry solemnly, in close consultation with
 his wife, "as it's ghost as is a trou- blin' our Kathie, an fur some purpose, too."
 Mrs. Barry shook her head slowly her invariable way of disposing of 8 difficulty.
 "Now, if iver we see him?" added Barry.
 Just then Kathie burst in, exclaim- ing, "There he is! See him over wonder by the railroad?" They looked and certainly. seemed , to see dim ngure.
 "That's where he went after he came to me-" said the child. To their excited imaginations the figure ap- peared phantom like, and they both were convinced it was ghost. Alter that Barry could not keep it to him. self any longer. The next morning he went over to a neighbours where the woman of the house was especially |. fond of gossip. His secret gave him al- most as much pride as fear and he was quite puffed with his importance as he entered the neat kitchen in re- sponse to Mrs. Daly's hospitable invi-
 tation.
 "Come in, MT. Barry, dol How's yourself an your folks, MT. Barry? I don't ever get time to call around g 8
 neighbor'd ought, for'if l do say it as shouldn't, there isn't harder workin' woman in Illinois, an Daiy's no ac- count! Take 8 chair, do! How'd you say they all are? Don't knows ,, Eve give you a chance to say, Pve run , on SO. But lawl Whats tongue for if 'tisn't to talk E tell Daly?" By this time Barry had taken the
 prOuereu cnalr ana MFs. Daly con- tinued her work of beating 6 cake, and ' as she worked as rapidly and energet- ,, ically as she talked her visitor almost . despaired of being able to tell his story in a properly thrilling manner. | "Well," he began, in the first break,
 "we're as well as kin be expected in a f house haunted by ghosts Mrs. Daily turned so quickly and 2 inquiringly on him that he nearly for got to go on. But he gathered cour- , age from her manner and told the
 story. To his intense surprise, how
 ever, when he had finished, Mrs. Daly