The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-25

the conclusion that she beheld ghost she
screamed and pulled the bedcothes tightly
over the heads OF hen self and her com.
panion; so that the sequel of the ghosts
proceedings is unknown.
The following spring l went home to
England. and just before starting l had my
own experience of seeing q ghost. | had
temporarily established myself in the room.
and one evening, finding my little daugh-
Ter now MS AmyOt far from well, had
her bed wheeled In beside mine that might
attend to her. About l2 O'clock got up TO
give her some meiicine, and was feeling
for the matches. when she called my atten-
ton TO brilliant light shining under the
door. l exclaimed that it was her papa, and
threw open the door to admit him. found
myself face to face with a woman. She
had baby ON her left arm, check shawl
crossed over her bosom, and all around her
shone bright, pleasant light, whence ema-
mating could not say. Her look at me was
one OF entreaty. She did not enter the
room, but moved across the staircase, van
lshlng into the opposite wall, exactly whore
the inner man servants room was situated
Neither my daughter nor myself felt the
slightest alarm; at the moment it appeared
TO be matter of common occurrence
When Mr.. Pennee came upstairs, and l
told him what we had seen. he examined
80 hho oAhiiNAses buo pdbshRe, DuL
found no trace Of anything extraordinary
Nor did my dogs bark.
"On my return from England in 1858 I
was in iormed that the creature had been
carrying on, but il was the screams that
had been the worst. However, Harry
Ia farm servant) had had several visits, but
would tell no particulars. / never could
get Harry to tell me much. He acknowl-
edged that the woman had several times
stood at the foot Of his bed but he would
not tell me more. One night Harry had
certainly been much disturbed in mind, and
the other man heard voices and sobs.
Nothing would ever induce Harry to lot
any one share his room, aud he was most
careful TO fasten his door. At the time I
attached no Importance to has ways as we
called them.
"In the autumn of the following year.
1889, my connection with Binstead CO sec, +,
Tor we gave up the house and returned to
Charlottetown. | left Prince Edward
Island In 1861. and went TO Quebec. In 1877
l happened TO return to the island, and
spent several months there. One day / was
at the bishops residence when the parish
priest 0 tme in with letter la his hand. He
asked me about my residence at Binstead,
and whether | could throw any light on the
contents of his letter. II was from the wife
of the then owner Of Binstead, asking him
to come out and try to deliver them from
the ghost of a young woman with a baby
In her arms, who had appeared several
times
AFTER / went 10 live in Charlottetown I
became acquainted with the following
facts, which seem to throw light on nv
ghost story. The ground on which Binstead
stood had been cleared in about 1910 by a
rich Englishman, who had built q very nice
house. Getting tired of colonial life, he
sold the property to man whose name /
forget, but win call Pigott (has was like
the namel. He was a man of low tastes
and immoral habits, but capital farmer.
It was he who added all tho back
wing Of t house, and made the necessary
divisions, etc, for farming the land He
had two sisters in his service, the daughters
of laborer who lived In a regular hovel
about three miles nearer town. After a
time each sister gave birth to boy. Very
httle can be learned of tho domestic
arrangements, since Plgott bore so bad a
name that the house was avoided by re-
spectacle people; but it is certain that ono
sister and one baby disappeared altogether,
though when and how is q complete
mystery. When the other baby was between
l and years old Pigott sold Binstead to
an English gentleman named Fellows,
from whom we hired it, with the intention
OF eventually buying 1t, The other sister
returned TO her fathers house, and, leaving
the baby with Mrs. Newbury, her mother,
went to the States and has never returned
Before leaving she would reveal nothing,
except thai the boy was her sisters, her
own being dead. 1t was this very Harry
Newbury that we had unwittingly engaged
as farm servant. He came to bid me fare
well few months after left Binstead,
saying that he would never return there
In 1877 inquired about him, and found
that be bad never been seen aincen