Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-02-21

a by-path, followed by a woman in a
green dress. You may imagine that
pursued them, but when l got to the path
there was nothing there.
"Was she tallY' asked Morton.
"She was tail Perhaps it was Mr..
Peregrines Green Lady"
Perhaps it was" said Morton, and
then we went back to lawn tennis.
On Friday morning, at about -, the
new gardener asked for an interview with
Morton, with whom l was sitting in the
smoking room
Come to give warming" said to
Morton, interrogatiyely. More appear
ances;'
"Not so sure, Morton answered. "In
have him i'm. Don't you 60 Stay and
see it out.
Accordingly the new gardener came
in bashfllly. He stood first ON one leg
then on the other, twirliEg a hat charac-
teristic of gardening between his hands,
and twice addressed himself to motion as
he would speak, and ended in q kind of
Growing gap.
Come. Williams, said Morton, "speak
out Don't be afraid of astonishing me-"
"Well, sir" said the gardener, taking
sir, that the last gardener left on account
Of something wrong with the cascade"
Wrong, said Norton Well-wny-
yes-you may call it wrong
There was something, sir, if I'm not
mistaken-and I'm here to be set right,
sir, if l am-about what he called face
that made shapes at him in the water.
Childish stuff it seemed to me. sir, till
-" Here the gardener stopped short
and twirled his hat again
"Tiu what?' cried Morton. "What is
it?"
''Well, sir" replied the gardener, "if
you wouldn't mind coming to see for
yourself. l know I'd never a believed it. ?"
Come along, Darsie, quick" said
Morton. "You lead the way, Williams,
to where YOU saw--whatever it IS"
"Kuhleborn," / gasped out to Morton
as we ran at top speed to the cascade,
and again he replied, 1--WE shall see"
We did see. There most Enthusiastically
was a distinct though constantly shift
ing face-a face as distinct, that is, as
can be made by falling water-in the
very centre Of the cascade, the face of
an old, old man, with long hair and
beard; and though the features were, of
course, somewhat blurred, there was no
doubt that what passed for the mouth
seemed curled in innumerable varieties
Of derision; indeed, as the gardener had
said, made "shapes" at us continually,
while the CHATTER and echo of the falling
water sounded like broken constituencies
laughter We looked at each other in
silence, a silence broken by the low
piercing sound of the whistle we had
heard in Peregriue's rooms. This strange
sound overpowered for the moment all
others, and even as it was heard the face
in the water seemed to vanish into fam
tastic, but meaningless Jets and bubbles.
thought, indeed, that | saw the ex-
preston change rapidly to fury, and then
to fear, but that may have been fancy.
Il don't think youn have any more
trouble, Williams" said Morton, and we
walked away
Explicit de Kuhleborn," l observed.
YES replied Morton. Poor old
chap"
There remained but one more task that
we knew of for our honored but myster-
ious and practically unseen guest, and
that was accomplished with dexterity,
skill, and much more than punctuality-
for she had had full week allowed to
heron Friday night Morton and
were sitting in his study late at night,
deep in argument, when suddenly Bruno,
who was living on the rug, gave low
grOwl, With the same impulse we both
looked at the door, which this time, Of
course. was not locked Itslowly opened
inward, and the more it opened the more
Bruno growled uneasily. When the
door had opened about half way it very
slowly and as if unwillingly swung back
again. Bruno rose to his feet, and as
the door suddenly clapped towith bang
he sprang toward it, barking with de-
light. Morton and | ran to the door be-
fore him, flung it open outward, and
rushed into the passage just in um2 to
see a green skirt disappearing round the
corner.
The next day we met the Green Lady.
She was standing at the top Of the stairs
as we came up them, a tall commanding
presence i'm an old-fashioned green silk
dress with a fur tippet round her neck.
Mindful of Peregrine's warning we pass
eli on as if unmindful of her being there,
and whether we walked through her, or
whether she vanished exactly as we APP
preached her, l do not know. Anyhow,
She was there one moment and not there
the next. We turned to compare notes
as to her appearance, and entirely agreed
but neither Of us could speak word as
to her features. After this, for the three
weeks that we stayed in the house, Nor
ton, his sister, and / saw her frequently
but we never exchanged any sign Of re-
cognitiou. Whether the servants-the
missing places were soon filed now that
the house was quiet-whether the SER
wants saw her or not / do not know. the
Incompatible One had undertaken to
keep them quiet if they did. Morton. of
course, wrote to thank Pcregrine. So,
save for her ftful appearances, to which
we We're accustomed, life went on just
as it might in any other country house of
the same kind as Grey Towers; and Of
course before the month was up Morton
was tired of it, and we went up to Lon
don, with an intention on his part to get
rid of the remainder % his term if he
could.
The day after our departure he and |
met at the club, and he proposed to call
on Peregrine, to which at once assented.
We found him. as before. ensconced in
his luxurious Office, and he welcomed Us
ayeu mora warmly than before