The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-21

Carne's Hold was left pretty much to its
owners.
soon afterward another child was
porn. There were, of course, more servants
nov, and more state, but Lady Caraes was
as much alone as ever. Whether she was
determined to learn no word of Z glish, or
Whether ne was determined that she should
not, she at any rate made no attempt to
acquire her husbands language, and many
Sald THAT 1t was shame that be did not get
her nurse and a maid who could speak
her tongue; for in the days of Charles there
We're foreigners enough in England, and
| there could have been no difficulty IN pro-
curing her an attendant of her own religion
and race
They quarreled more than ever; but
the servants were all of opinion that what
| ever lt was about It was her doing more
| than his. lt was her voice to be heard ris-
| ing In passionate tones, while he said but
! little, and they all agreed he was polite AID
courteous IN his manner to her. As for her,
she would walk for hours by herself up
and down the terrace, talking aloud to her
| self, sometimes wrlnging her hands and
throwing her arms wildly about. At this
time there began to be a report among the
| country round that Lady Carne was out of
her mind
"Sne was more alone than ever now, for
| Sir Edgar had taken to making Journeys
| up to town aud remaining for weeks a.
time, and there was a whisper that he
| played heavily and uulucRiy. So things
went on until the third child was born, and
fortnight afterward a servant from the
Hold rode through the village at night on his
way for the doctor. and stopped moment
| TO tell the news that there was a terrible
scene up at the Hold, for that during a
| momentary abSencs of the nurse, LADY
Carne had stabbed her child to death, and
when he came away she was raving wildly,
the efforts of Sir Edgar and two of tn ser
wants hardly sutticin TO hold her.
After that no one except the inmates of
| the Hold ever saw its mistress again; the
windows in one of the wings were barred,
| and two strange women were brought
| down from London and waited and attend
ed on the poor lady. There were few other
servants there. for the girls from
about here soon left, saying that the
| screams and cries that rang at times
| through the house were so terrible that
they could not bear them; but indeed there
was but small occasion for servants, for
| Sir Edgar was almost always away. One
| night, one of the girls who had STAYED on
aud had been spending the evening with
| her friends, went hone late and Just as
she reached the house she saw a white
figure appear at one of the barred win
| dows.
|
and screaming, and to the girls surprise
many of her words were English, which
| she must have picked up without anyone
knowing it, The girl always declared that
her language made her blood run cold, and
was full of Oaths such as rough sailor men
| use, and which no doubt she had picked up
on ship board; and then she poured curses
upon the CarneS her husband, the house
| and ner descendants. The girl was 80
panic-stricken that she remained silent
| TILL 10 a minute two other women ap-
| peared at the window and bye main force
tore Lldy Carne from her hold upon the
| bars.
"A few days afterward she died, and it is
mostly believed by her own hand, though
this was never known. None of the SER
wants, except her own attendants, ever en-
tered the room, and the doctor never
opened his lips on the subject. Doubtless
he was we'll paid to keep sile ICE. Anyhow
her death was not Sir Edgar's work, for he
was away at the time, aud only returned
upon the day after her death. So, sir, that
Is now the curse came to be laid on Carnes
| Holl"
SIT is terrible story" Mr. Gulston said,
when the old clerk ceased; "a terrible story
1t IS likely enough that the rumor was true
and that he carried her off after capturing
the vessel and kill & her husband, and
perhaps all the rest of them, and that she
had never recovered from the shock. Was
there ever any question as to whether they
had been mar le1E
There was question about it-a good
! deal of question: and at Sir Edgar'S death
| the next heir, who was a distant cousin
set no a claim, but the lawyer produced
two documents Sir Edgar had given him.
One was signed by Jack Priest, who had
it was said, been one Of the crew on board
| Sir Cigars ship, certifying that he had
duly and lawfully married Sir Edgar
Carne and Donna Inez MarJos; aud there
was another from Spanish priest, bslong-
ing to church at Porto Rico, certifying
that he had married the same pair accord
| ing to Catholic rites, appending a note saw
ing that he did so although the husband
was hereto, being comp sled and en-
| forced by armed men, the town being in
the possession of a force from two ships
that had entered the harbor the night be-
fore As therefore the pair had been mar
rie1 according to the rites of both churches,
and the Carnes had powerful friends at
court, the matter dropped, and the title has
never been disputed. As to Sir E dgar him
self, he fortunately only lived four years
after his wife's death. Had he lived much
| longer there would have been no estate left
to dispute As it was, he gambled away
half its wide acres
And how has the curse worked?' Mr..
| OulStOn asked.
''ln the natural way, sir. AS I was say
| ing before, it has just been In the natural
way, and whatever people may say, there
| is nothi e, as [ have heard the old parson
| lay down a many time, to show that that
poor creatures wild rawlings had aught to
| do with what followed Tne faint in the
blood of Sir Edgar's Spanish wife was
naturally inherited by her descendants
Her son showed no signs of it, at least as
far as l have heard, until he was married
aud his wife had borne him three sons
Then it burst out. He drew his sword and
killed a servant who had gwen him some
imaginary offense, and then, springing at
his wife, VINO had thrown herself upon him.
he would have strangled her had not the
servants run in aud torn him off her. He,
too, ended his days in confinement. His
sons showed no signs of fatal faint.
THE eldest married in London, for none
of the gentry of Devonshire would have
given their daughters in marriage to a
Carne. The Others entered the army, and
one was killed In the Low countries The
other obtained the rank of general, and
married and settled in London. The son
of the eldest boy succeeded his father, but
died bachelor He was man of strange,
| moody habits. and many did not hesitate to
say that be W S as mad as his grandfather
had been. He was found dead in his
library, with a gun just discharged lying
beside him. Whether it had exploded acct
deatally, or whether he had taken mis- life,
|