Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

= } s F E : . i ! ! seem; ;ss
doomed to hear of nothing but tenants.
I wish somebody would be good enough:
to set those Hemlock Place houses Oh
8. fre!"
They've paid no rent for six months.
sir" said Mr.. Muggins. the agent:
They amt no gcod-them reduced
gentry, as is always talkin' about the
days they've seen. Talk amt money
anyhow you can fix it, sir.
"Then what on earth do you tolerate
them for?" said Hubert Minton, sharply.
@Put them out. Get somebody in their
place. If man has got to be bored
with lot of tenement houses he may
Is we'll make money out of them, 1 sup
pose.
ITO be sure, sir; to be sure, said MIR.
Abraham Muggins pulling out dogs
cared memorandum-book and making
sundry notes therein. "That's what I
says myself-only thesa ERE decayed
gentry is so precious hard to deal with"
And Hubert Minton, who was
troubled with more money than he
knew what to do with, thought no
more of the old house in No. 20 Hem
lock Place and its impecunious tenants,
until six months or so afterward Mr..
Muggins came to him again.
eff you please, sir" said lie, II can't
let that ERE house in Hemlock Place"
"Can't let it? And why not?"
eff you please. sir" said MI Mug.
2,
take it"
"Why not?" demanded the landlord.
s-haunted!" said Mr.. Muggins.
''What?" shouted Minton.
Haunted" repeated the agent, q
trifie more distinctly than before.
''Stuff aud nonsense!" exclaimed the
landlord.
"Just what 1 says myself, sir, :"
chimed in Mr.. Muggins. ''But all the
same, folks fight shy of No. 20 Hem
lock Place, since old Mrs. Thompson
was scared out of her seuses, a-tahin'
care of the premises for her coal and
house-rent until somebody could be
found to lease 'em."
"In the name of common sense" said
Hubert Minton, "what was there to
brighten the woman?"
"Shrieks, sir, at the dead of night.
and awful .groans." said Mr.. Muggins,
looking into his memorandum book
as if he kept private menagerie OF
ghosts therein; "and the rattlin' OF
chains most awful"
"Pshawr' said Mr.. Minton. CURLY.
"Yes, of course, SIR" assented the
P,,ko oil
Ican't get no tenant for the house."
."Let it stand empty them" said
Hubert, carelessly. IF people choose
to be such superstitious fools don't
regard myself responsible for it." and
Mr.. Minton went off to his summer fish.
ing in the beautiful st. Lawrence, with.
out troubling himself about the haunted
house in Hcmlock Place.
"The sweetest girl you ever saw,
said Major Carson, who was Judge Of
salmon and knew where the deepest
and darkest trout pools were tosbe
found; "sketching and painting in water
colors for New York art emporium
camping out on one of the islands, the
most picturesque spot you ever saw
0, OF course, I'll introduce you, old
fellow! never was one Of the kind
who went in for keeping things to my.
subsequently, as I'm old enough tc
be the girls father, and have bald
spot as big as y dinner plate on the
back of my hcad!' and Hubert NIinton
decided that his old sporting friend was
right, when he saw Ethel Langdou
seated in a boat, and languidly pulling
herself around point OF rocks, under
the dropping shade of elm and beech.
She was tall and slight, and as per.
fcctly formed as a Diana, with dark
blue eyes, hair of sunny faxen gold,
and dress of deep green serge, girdled
with plain, black leather belt.
Didn't tell you she was beauty ?'
said the triumphant Major.
by the ashes of Cleopatra, you were
= right" returned NIinton.
Miss Langdon was one of those indie.
pendent young ladies who ask no odds
81 the world. She supported herself
!" and her infirm old aunt by the exercise
o. her skill i'll art, nor was she at all
ashamed of the fact that she earned her
own living. I'VE are very poor, aunty
and [, said she, "and that is the reason
l can't afford to wear those lovely sum.
mcr SILKS, and vapory lawns and things
like other girls have"
do you kow," said Minton, Il think
those dark WOODEN dresses of yours are
the most becoming things that you can
possibly wrar?'
An said Ethol. "but you are man.