The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-06-20

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pInm eqi pur'Elsnolint 5ura lloq s.Epul
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eq o. paq Iaq pun ea1ssoH lasoIo ell1n
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-Guu p!rs I9Asu ans pun 'palans loAau
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ss!pu1 .sIou fus aos ol paau 1ou PIP
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lady's hair. for Rosette had gone back
TO her native country.
'.All the time she was doing Il the
girl thought she heard faint moan
ing sound and was frightened aud went
back to the rest, pale and trembling;
and before night it was very well
knowil in the house that the little
closet there was not only locked, but
nailed up.
There was coldness 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 measure,
/ and drank 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
4 were any children. but they both lived
I TO be very old indeed, aud 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 rs she by that
[ time; but rs soon as the funeral was
stood long while before the locked
and nailed closet door.
Then he said to himself. i can mo-
die until know and ordered il to b,
opened.
They sent for the blacksmith TO do
1t, and all the while my lord sat in hi;
great armchair. staring before him
There were hundreds OF nails in il
People said afterwards that all my Lady
Maud's life there used now and then I,
be little sound of hammering in hei
room when she was alone. but thel
were all out Mt last. and the lock wa
forced, and my lord arose and tottere'
into the closet.
"A bed stood there still and som,
gowns hung on the wall. and over th'
bed one was lying. with cords twiste'
about it. Then they looked closer an'
the maids began TO scream. aud ON
old woman. who remembered Rosette
had called out her name, and my lor
turned his pale old eyes upon them lik
ghost and said. God forgive me an
have mercy on both their souisr an
held out his hand 10 be helped back I
his own room, which he never lei
again.
1T wasn't much they found-only
few bones and an ornament or two. bu
il was plain that the girl had been tie
hand aud foot and bound to the be
and left there to die-if she were nc
murdered outright by the jealous lad,
AS for the smile my lady saw. he talke
of that in wandering kind of way o
his death-bed. So il came to be known
But ever since, sir, whenever there
going TO be misfortune in the family
whoever sleeps here in this room see
Rosette come out of her closet an
smile in the glass No one ever sees he
face. only its reflection.
She was seen before one young lad
lit is two generations ago. sir-elope
with a very inferior person.
''She was seen before my master
, father died, and before my master
|. brother was killed at the Crimea-
hope no trouble will follow now, sir.
II trust not" said the American
Perhaps it would be best not TO met
ton this TO any one"
VERY well. sir" said Thomas. an
, left the room.
! As for the American. he slept els
i where the next night. He had no a,
miration for ghosts, even the fami
ghosts of noblemen, and he ha,l no IL
sire to see Rosette smile at him in Il
glass again. The smiles of a phantoi
of POO years standing are more aw
: some than bewitching. - EceHiE
World.