Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-10-30
AN AVENGING SPIRIT.

the vide and silent hallway It Is tn
ghosii
Swinging upi grnfp Dglrymple by the |
ann and give him raising shake he I
starts up with a sleepy. hall frightened |
look
Jack, said I IN nm Awed whisper
"listonl There is the ghosts step This
house Is haunted sure, hes coming down
stairs
Dalrymple rubbed hia eyes aud sprnns
10 his feet. Ghosts nor men had no ter
rur. tot him. aud 1t was for this reason
that had asked him to spend a night
with the IN this house. about which were
~ many stories NJ ghosts walking AZ
night aud which was 20 much avoided
by the villagers
And In truth the houaat uncanny rCpu.
tation was not without liquidation. II
had no, bccu occupied for thirteen years
aud was now inhabited by rats aud cock,
reaches. It's roof was all moss grown and
all approaches TO It were grown up Ia
weeds and bnara No ono had cared TO
10 near It in thirteen years is last &C.
onpRnt was rich old man who lived In
II only during the summer and was all
alone For fifteen summon no lived
there. Tho people knew but little OF
him save that his name was Caspar
Troup aud that he was very wealthy
The last seen Of him about the village
was one day in August Just thirteen
years before the occurrence OF tho Incl
dent narrated at the beginning Of tins
story He was observed walking about
the place experimenting some work that
Ln was having done. Tho uuxt day tho
house was shut mp and hc was scon no
more It was thought that no had re.
turned 10 the city, and would turn up
the next summer a few months later
younger brother Of his came down aud
removed the furniture aud closed mp the
house. Tint was tho last ever seen OF
Caspar Troup, aud the next summer tho
house was not opened
The biz, roomy house remained NIL
through the year following closed up
deserted aud alone. Tho villagers who
passed by IL AZ night began 10 tell strange
stories Of the sounds that they heard in
side. and declared that they had often
seen light shining through the blinds,
aud had heard voices moaning US " In
pain. These stories gave the house u
reputation Of being haunted, and II was
given q wide berth by all at night. Just
rs many other houses arc In nearly every
village. For thirteen years tho house
sustained the reputation well aud even
increased II, II became the talk Of tho
town. and any number Of intrepid youths
spoke Of spending night In the house
and solving the mystery But none ever
did 80 determined TO BEE N there was
anything In the many stories that had
been told. aud proposed TO Jack BAL.
rymplo that We spend night IN the
house and meet the ghost face 10 face.
And 40 II came to pass that we repair
cd 10 the silent house one night Just
OTTER dusk. aud opening the crgakiug
DOR entepd tho wide halfway, All
was dark We lighted q WAX taper and
got It down In tho hallway TO give US
light We spent tho hrst few hours Of
the night specuating about the appear.
Rnee Of his ghosu-hip, and finally, be.
coming wearcd. we had fallen asleep.
] had scarcely gotten asleep when heard
the footsteps "a dccribel above.
And after rousing Dalrymplo we walk.
cd into the hallway,
We could hear the footsteps sounding
IN the hallway Just over our heads. II
was the gho., and IL was coming toward
the stairway. Nearer and nearer the
footsteps came, and faster aud faster my
heart beat. Another stop
Grcat God There 1t wasl Ilideous
Horiblel
At last had seen ghostl In all ms
most horrible fruaEs OF imagination
had never oOniufed mp anything half "a
irghtful OF hibiscus ~ this, II was Tho
figure Of an old man. who might hay,
l,een thousand years old, no bent, u
feeble and deirepit he seemed. lie wa
leaning with one hand on q cano, Will,
with the other ho steldied himself on thi
railing Of IN, stairway. But more hor
Tible than all was the awful gaping cu
which extended fr1li one Of his cara .,
the other aud which was dripping with
blood. His white beard was clotte,
with blood. and the long white hal
which iell IN folds over his shoulder wa
soaked with gore
This horrible, unearthly figure cam
down the stairway aud stood before u
staring 1t Us with his wild, maniacal
proiruding, blooishot eyes, while hi
thin lips were twitching neryously anI
the CHASTITY wound was gaping open
showing the severed windpipe.
"Who-who are your asked Dalrym
pie In husky voice,
The creature replied In 6quoakln
voice without moving hin lips, the yoic
coming on. Of the gaping wound.
H." no said. ~ avn Caspar TrouT
And was murdered hero IN this houa
thirteen Year, ago
'-- Troup-- murderedT was all
could calculate
And this wut ghost
"Ycs am am a ghost,- he col
t.niA,d 81 Me mus way Us befur,
but have no time TO spare with SO.
am going TO call ON my murderer
Call on your murderer What d
you mean Explain yourself, aske
DLryulplc exe,todly
4 mean what say continued Il
ghost II WAS murdered IN uere, a.
ghost and am now going 10 haul
the wretch who CAV. me that" aud
pointed TO the gaping, CHASTITY wour
across his throat.
"who-who killed your asked Dr
rympla,
"his nameg the ghost asked. "A
don't know that But his fac
a y. 4.