Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-03-13

say; and having travelled with his wife
on the Continent. came home, and be-
e. 90 be very much thought Of and
re- cted. SO was his lady, too, sir,
though she WIS not handsome, and was
very naughty.
'One thing, however, the English
servants did act like;l she brought
foreign maid with her from France
girl named Rosette, and as pretty as a
picture.
My lady thought all the world of
her, and would never let any other
woman be about her in her room. and
of course the people we're jealous and
talked against Rosette, and the women
began to say something about the way
my lord looked at her. Though, to be
sure. women viii be suspicious. How
ever that may be. my lady loved her,
and j think she thought too much of
herself TO be jealous Of her maid, until
one day,sitting before her glass, Rosette
combing her hair for her, She heard her
husband coming into the room. Her
back was towards him, aud Rosette
was behind her. and they forgot the
mirror; and so, sir. she saw in it with
out stirring both their faces; and she
saw the girl smile at her husband and
she saw him smile back at her, and she
did not need TO see any more. Ladies
are very quick, sir, IS we all knew.
She understood every thing, but she
never stirred, and she never said any
thing to him--nO. nor TO the maid, sir.
"lhis was her room, sir. In that
little closet ROsette had her bed. to be
ready ii sh, called. But one morning my
lady's bell rang furiousIyaud the maid
who answered il was told to do my
lady's hair for Rosette had gone back
10 her native country.
"All the time she was doing it the
girl thought she heard a faint moan
ing sound and was frightened and went
back to the rest pale and trembling;
and before night it was very well
known in the house that the little
closet there was not only locked, but
nailed up.
"There was a GOODNESS between my
lord and my lady and they kept very
much apart; but she had told him also
that Rosette had returned to France
and no one ever saw the girl again
After that my lord seemed to take
up his wild ways again. in a measure,
and drank a good deal and my lady
lived very much alone. She never had
a regular maid and she was harsh to
those who waited on her. There never
were any children, but they both lived
to be very old indeed, and at last my
lady died in this very room and was
buried in the church yonder. You may
see her tomb there Lady Maud Rosen-
dale, aged 80.
My lord was as old as she by that
time; but as soon as the funeral was
over he went into my lady's room, and
stood q long while before the locked
and nailed closet door.
Then he said to himself i can not
die until know and ordered it to be
opened.
They sent for the blacksmith to do
it, and all the while my lord sat in his
great armchair, staring before him.
There were hundreds of nails in it.
People said afterwards that all my Lady
Maud's life there used now and then to
be a little sound of hammeriug in her
room when she was alone, but they
were al out at last, and the lock was
forced, and my lord arose and tottered
into the closet.
"A bed stood there still and some
gowns hung on the wall, and over the
bed one was lying, with cords twisted
about it. Then they looked closer and
the maids began to scream, and one
old woman, who remembered Rosette.
had called out her name, and my lord
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a ghost and said, God forgive me and
have mercy on both their soulsr and
held out his hand to be helped back to
his own room, which he never left
again.
1T wasn't much they found--only a
few bones aud an ornament or two, but
it was plain that the girl had been tied
hand and foot and bound to the bed
and left there to def she were not
murdered outright by the jealous lady.
As for the smile my lady saw, he talked
of that in wandering kind OF way on
his death-bed. So ii came to be known.
But ever since, sir, whenever there is
going To- be misfortune in the family,
whoever sleeps here in this room sees
Ro>ettc come out of her closet and
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face, only its reflection.
"She was seen before one young lady
sit is two generations ago, sir oloped
with a very inferior person.
"She was seen before my masters
father died. aud before my masters
brother was killed ut the Crimea. l
hope no trouble will follow now, sir
Il trust not, said the American.
perhaps it would be best not to men
ton this TO any oue.'
Very we'll, sir, ~ said Thomas, and
left tho room.
As for the American, he slept else
where the next night He had no adj
'mirtiou for ghosts, even the family
ghosts of uoblemcn. and he had no de-
Sire to see Rosctte smile al him in the
glass again The smiles of a phantom
OF 200 Years standing are more awe
some IMAM bewitching. - Evening
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