Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-01-09

hes buried in the old castle. and VIII,
KNOWS, my child, but it might hav,
) fallen to your lot, if you had held
your ground"
The young girl listened to the OLD
woman with awe.
: But in spite of her fear she ventured
the next day to go to the brook again,
where the ghostly washerwoman had
appeared to her, but the pale lady did
not come. Indeed the old woman
spoke truly, when she said the en-
chanted one appeared by the water,
only on the anniversary of her evil
deed. So the girl took notice of the
exact day and hour and waited pa
tiently whole year long,
When the year had passed away and
the day had come back again, the
courageous maiden went with bundle
of washing on her head, to the place
where the spell-bound lady of the cas-
tie had appeared. She took the pre-
caution to hide little wooden cross in
her bodice as charm against evil
spirits. But the nearer she came TO
the brook, the more her footsteps fall
tered, and her heart beat louder and
louder, and when she really saw the
enchanted washerwoman by the edge
of the water, she came very near turn
ing back. But the pale lady gave her
look so inexpressibly sad, that the
young girl overcame her fears and
fingered.
my veil have washed for three hundred
years,
But as bloody as ever It still appears
murmured the unhappy woman, and
she rubbed and rinsed the bloody linen
while she groaned and sighed.
Then the young girl took heart and
said: 'In the name of the Lord, give
me the clothl" The pale lady looked
up with delight and handed the veil to
the maiden. And 10, beneath the
hands of the virgin, the red stains dis
and the linen became as
white and clean as newly-fallen snow.
Then bright tears rolled down the
pale face of the spell bound lady; she
took the profiered veil and beckoned
10 the maiden with her white hand.
Like will-o'-the-wisp she glided
over the ground, swerving now to the
light, now to the left among the fir
rees. From time to time she turned
Ter head TO see whether the maiden /
vas following her. She had grasped I
Ter little cross and walked bravely be- '
lind her weird leader, who went to- '
yard the ruined castle.
In an underground vault, whose /
oof had fallen in, the pale lady
hecked her footsteps and pointed to a
tone, which was set into the floor.
The maiden raised the stone with her
trong arm, but the next moment she
arted back with horror. In the hole
God kettle, filed with gold pieces !,
nd costly ornaments, but on the top
it lay a little dead child with
oody wound in its breast.
The young girl was about to run !,
way, but when she saw how the pale !,
dy wrung her hands in deep distress, :
e remained where she was, and laid g
e wooden cross she carried in her !,
md, on the dead child's breast.
Then the lady in white folded her
Inds and bent her head low. She
ew paler and paler like a dream at :,
e Growing of the morn-heralding cock, =,
ID finally the misty form faded from -
yht. "
When the young girl turned her eyes =.
ain toward the hole, the dead child =.
d disappeared, the cross lay on the
ecious kettle, the yellow gold shone =
d glistened in the sunlight, which =
ne through the broken wall.
any further fears of appari-
MS, she carried her treasure trove V"
ely home, and in the eyes of the
ing men became three times as beau In
III as before. Oh
wa
Inherited Insanity. the
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