St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-11

invited me home to luncheon with him.
Walking down to his house | told him
of the ghost l had seenthe night before.
He was very much interested. and when
we were at luncheon urged that / would
tell Mrs. I'll. and her friends of the
strange occurrence. This did.
When had finished the recital Mrs.
II. said: "iThis is the strangest thing
| ever heard IN my life. Where do you
live? Where is the house III which this
occurred?"
gave her the street and number.
She at once replied: "Ah, know the
house as well as do my own. 1t once
belonged to dear friend of mine, and
must still belong to her estate"
told her that l did not know to whom
the house belonged, as we had taken ii
from an agent, and inquired the mama
of her dead friend.
Suddenly she lifted up her hands
with terror in her face and hurriedly
exclaimed:
'My God! Can it be possible? do
believe you have seen Miss Betty
Thornton. Now, that l think of it. your
description of the person you saw suits
her exactly, and the cashmere which
you describe was exactly such as she
habitually wore in life. and in which
she was doubtless buried. Did you
know her?''
NO" replied. II did not. She died
just before came here to reside"
The announcement that we were ac-
tually living in house owned by Mrs.
Hillyard, and that it was until her mar
rage her home, together with the as
surance that the apparition which had
seen resembled both in person and cos
mo To
more deeply than cared to aeknowlS
edge.
The Judge Swears.
Judge I'll. had been on the bench for
forty years, and bore the reputation of
a RhadamanthuS in SternneSs, decision
and judicial uprightness. He was the
last man ON earth to be scared by ghosts
and hobgoblins, but when l told him
that [ was of counsel with my father i'm
contesting the will of Mrs. Hillyard in
favor of Florence Farren, and all the
circumstances of the case, he stopped
short in the street, and with much agi-
alton said:
"Don't say that have said it. but I'll
be id if | agree with your brother.
1t was no hallucinatiOn. You have
seen Miss Betty herself. l should like
you to come to your house and have
you to point out the whole thing to me.
the positions and ALL" That evening
when court adjourned / invited him to-
dine with us, aad two hours later he
joined us. AT dinner we went over the.
whole thing again. After dinner, while!
was showing him the exact position
of the woman as she stood pointing, he
said: "What do you keep in that clos
et?" 81 don't KNOW" l replied; "PlE
call the servant and Inquire" Ed
ward, our butler, said he had never
opened the closet. There was no key in
the house to unlock it,"
The lockSmith was at once brought
and the closet door at last swung back
All that we saw were books on shelves
bearing her maiden name, and on the;
floor large black tin box, locked with,
tiny paddock. /
The Second VIII Found.
lifted this onto the center table, and
now, all excited as we were, ordered the
locksmith to break the lock. On open-i
ing the box we found in it large FAM
lily Bible. | slipped the clasps. 1t few
envelope addressed ITO Florence Far
rem" We could not wait. Judge H.
got into my brothers carriage and soon
brought her to her old home to received
a letter from her dead aunt and a will
made subsequent to the other. which,
also contained clause specially REVOKE
ing the first will. 4
The letter explained how miserable.
her married life had been; how her;
husband had forced her to make the first
will, and how she had praeticed an in
nocent ruse to secure peace and made
this second will without his knowledge,
which revoked the first and gave to
Florence, to whom it Of right
belonged, her entire fortune. This
will, she SAID, "she was at much
trouble to conceal from her
husband, and had at last determined
to put it In the family Bible and have
it under lock and key in the parlOl
closet of our old house." You will
surely miss and look for the family
Bible" the letter concluded. land when
you find it you will find this, my trua
last will and testament" This is alR
except to add that this will was admitA
ted to probate; that Hillyard and his
daughters cleared out of the country
and that Florence Farren received the
whole fortune. The overcoming
question in my mind is, was it het
ghost?