The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1889-01-30
JANUARY 80, 1889.


9 From tho description have had of her,
she has no resemblance to him."
"No; yet parents and children are some
times very dissimilar"
edo YOU think She.has lived there long?n
mo sir, she can not have been there
more than few months at most" an
swered Miss Hopkins. "She was never
seen about the place until recently'
"Have you ever heard of any children
being seen or heard theres"
sNo, SIR
edo you think there are any?"
"sThere are none. They would find it I'M
possible to keep child within those great
walls so quiet and silent that it would not
be seen or heard by some one," answered
the school-teacher.
"Does that administered man make
frequent trips away!''
CT suppose he does-it is seldom, how
ever, that any one ever sees him go away or
come back. For weeks at time he is not
seen, and then we know he is away from
the old house on the hill Then all of a sud
den he is discovered walking about the
big house, or even coming to the village,
but making the acquaintance of no one.
Some people think that he is the chief Of a
bandltti and goes away to his rendezvous
occ .sionally. Then there is an old mother
Tifin who believes in witchcraft. She says
& he is wizard, and that the strange sights
seen and strange voices heard there so
often are the result Of his wild incanta-
tions and invocations of the evil spirit I
have heard people say that they have heard
screams, shrieks and wild, demoniac laugh
ter from within that old house, which al
most froze the blood in their veins"
s Allen, having witnessed some of those
Il -Au Cse %o or1 -
. mysterious noises, did not think that she
\ was exaggerating them in the least. But
y his strong common sense told him that there
was nothing supernatural in all he had seen
and heard. It could all be very easily &C
4 counted for if properly understood. He was
3 not so much interested in the house and the
mysterious sights and sounds emanating
4 from it as in the beautiful, mysterious
81 Bertha.
"Do you know any thing of the young
n lady?" he asked H.
"No, sir,' she answered, CURLY, while an
expression fitted over her face which he
+ could not understand, unless it was a tinge
& of jealous fear.
"Did you ever hear any thing about her?"
"Only what I have told you," she an
swered. "She has never been seen but
twice."
He could have told much more of the great
stone house on the hill than any one knew
bad he chose to do so, but he determined to
The 4d66fsse ppsel to himself.
Twas growing late, and site drag. and as it
young editor free from any further danger
lat present, Miss Leethy Hopkins left the
office Aliens face was convulsed with
mental anguish, and, striking his desk with
his fist, he said:
"This has gone far enough. Be it life or
Heath, misery or happiness, Heaven on hell,
/ will probe that mystery-I will know all
before another sun rises. I will go to the
Jail stranger and demand an explanation,
$ven if he shoots me dead on his doorstep.
Death is preferable to another night OF mis-
Iery and doubt"
With this desperate resolve fresh on his
Ups and engraven in his heart ne selzed
lis hat, and leaving Toby to close the ONCE,
Rftthe village and hurried up the old dlsused
bad to the great stone house on the dill.
CHAPTER XVII.
HOW TURKEYS POINT DEFEATED HERSELF :
When Allen Gray reached the house on
be hill, instead of going around 1T as ne hao
Eone on former occasions, he walked direct
Iva up to the great front gate and tried 10
inter- it; but it was locked
His first thought was to scale the wall,
Which he could have done by going to the
Eear. but seeing servant in the front yard
lie called to him.
st want to see your master,' he said.
The servant, who understood some En-
tlish, shook his head, saying:
IuZe monsieur gone-ze monsieur gone.
EL:,,,,, M Gonna no come hon i1lT mon