Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-02

! leel " Sdlu awful solemn.
| ''Well, as he wouldn't come IN, and the
rain let up a little, got chair and sat out
| beside him. and smoked till | got so sleepy
! ! could hardly sit up. Lets turn in says
l. Bob sorter groaned, and said he reck-
| oned we'd have to some time. After while
he says, very deep aud solemn, Jim, did
| you ever see ghost!' l was mapping off
| again when he said it and jumped, and felt
/ cold streak go down my back.
| " No said L. did you?'
| 80, no. he says, but | had Dad dream
| last night; and when told Juan about IL
| this morning he cut out and said the place
| was haunted, and something awful was 60
| ing to happen, and he wasn't coming back
! ill it was over. ! cusSed him out for fool
and told him guessed 7 could stay here by
| myself; but somehow haven't gone back
| in the house since | came out this morning,
and I'm awful glad you came
| Il was too beat out ana tired TO mind
! this story much. %, never mind your old
| dream, I said; Pm dead for sleep;
! come on
I'VE went in: l lit a lamp, and Bob
| gazed round. and SHE'D and Jumped like u
bronco Ilrst time he sees a train. After we
| 'urned in. the lamp went out, and for about
| an hour every time I'd get comfortable
asleep Bob would Jump all over and wake
me up, till told him ! was going to get up
/ and shoot him, and see if that'd keep him
! quiet.
| 81 reckon he must have sobered down and
| got to sleep, Tor the next thing knew was
| Weakened Oy somebody gra bling my arm, !;
l finally made out that it was Bob. lie kept
| shaking my arm and whispering my name
| over and over, in d voice that sounded as if
| somebody was choking him. ] looked round
| the room. Dark as a poe iet; but, Is my
| eyes came back to the foot of the bed l saw
! sailing around in the air little light specll
A. laal- Ii
and wavered and fickered like the rchec-
ton of running water. Then l began TO see
something awful Ill the middle of IL. /
didn't want to see any more, and | shut my
eyes In minute l had TO open them-I
didn't wan. to see, but | had 10. There it
was, but worse, floating in the middle of
the light spot, head with horrible dead
lace. \ dark Mexican face. His eyes We're
shut; his jaw dropped; he looked as If he'd
been dead long time.
But every feature of the face twitched
and jerked and ficllered till l couldn't
stand it. couldn't shut my eyes, however
hard tried, so | gave whoop that the
boys over at Bar Six could have heard, and
covered up my head with the bed clothes.
Bob laid there with his teeth rafting, and
he SAYS the thing staid an hour, and then
faded and fiickered out But I know il
wasn't two minutes from the time l covered
my head till he said: It's gone, JIM and
by and by we crawled out and lit the lamp.
I've sat up and smoked the rest of the
night ] fell Just as Bob did about the
house being close and disagreeable; so We
sat out in front mostly, and Bob told me
what his dream was the night before
He thought he was right there IN bed,
same as he was, and that he suddenly
walked up and saw three Mexicans in the
room They were quarreling and there
was money on little table, in three piles.
All the furniture in the room was different
from what it really was, and the men didn't
seem to see him at all. Finally two of the
men changed looks, and doubled teams on
the other One of them stepped up behind
him and pinned his arms, and the other
stabbed him in the neck and breast, again
and again. Bob saw him fall over dead;
but he said he wouldn't have cared so much
for that-he'd seen man or two killed at
one time or another, in rough and tumble
fghts-but after they had killed him they
went ahead te cut him ali up, and put him
in box. and Bob says when they got to
that he'd have given $4,000 TO wake up out
of the dream, or whatever it was.
'sWell, they divided the money into two
piles instead of three, and each took one;
and then one of the men took the box with
the body in it on his back and lit out. After
he was gone the other one picked up some
thing OF the floor that they had forgot to