The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-31

gan to worry over the fate of the party,
her thoughts resting more particularly on
the young man in whom she had taken so
motherly an interest; all at once there
We're shouts and cries for assistance
heard a short distance from the inn and
Peter. with two men servants went out
with lanterns to look for the travellers
lost in the gloom, and soon ran across
the two elder men of the trio that had
so disregarded his warning that morning.
They were nearly frozen and had only
stumbled on the inn in the darkness, one
ofthem letting out that their plan had
been to feel their way to the foot of the
mountain. "Why, where is Mr.. John
stOn}" asked the hostess as soon as they
werJ thawed out sufficiently to talk.
They replied that he had become DISCUS
ted with the righteousness of the climb,
and had left them within half an hour
after their departure from the inn, mean
ing to go back to the valley or TO stop
with Mrs. Donahue until their return
AS nothing had been seen of him there,
the good lrishwoman concluded that he
had continued his descent of the noun
tain, and could only pray that he had
reached some place of safety ere over
taken by the storm But so troubled was
she that, finding il impossible to sleep,
she sat up some time after the rest of the
household, endeavOring TO occupy her
mind, and, as the mistress of the house,
casting up her accounts Every door
was close fastened to the elements and
trusty hound lay at her feet. All at once
there smOte her breath of air SO chilly
as to make her glance up, thinking that
perhaps the wind had torn open one of
the great shutters and broken the glass,
but as she raised her head the dog sprang
up with a shrill yelp and with every hair
on his body bristling as he eyed a man
standing within a yard or two of the ia
BILE at which Mrs Donahue sat.
FACE TO FACE WITH GHOST.
She recognized him Immediately as
young Johnston, of whom she had been
thinking, and started up with a cry of
welcome, only to sink back in her chair
sick and faint as her eyes met his. He
was dripping with snow that melted as IL
ran from his garments and formed a pool
of water on the floor He was gazing at
her with his CLASSY eyes full Of mute APP
peal and seemed trying 10 say something
to her, though his lips moved in inarticu-
late mOuthings. The hound here
attracted the woman's attention. He was
pressing close to her skirts uttering low
whines of terror and with his round eyes
wild with excitement. She pushed him
away with her foot, and as he rolled
nearer to the figure standing regarding
them he gave a sharp cry and quivering
for a moment all over was dead. AS she
looked at the apparition in dismay, feel
ing her blood cold in her veins, although
not believing that what she saw partoolx
of the supernatural, she became aware
of a change taking place in him. His
form wavered for a moment as an image
in a stream might before "a breath of
wind, and the next instant was gone
So complete and mysterious was this
disappearance that the bewildered woman
sprang up, thinking that she had prob
ably dreamed it all, but still 50 terrified
by what she had undergone that she
called her husband lie reached her in a
few minutes, when she told him what she
had imagined she saw, but as she was
telling the story her eyes fell on the pool
of water on the floor, and then on the
dead dog, and overcome at last, she fell
in a dead faint.
The next morning Peter made close in
inquiries Of the two men who had accom-
panied Johnston, but they held to their
story, and as there was no evidence be-
yond the vision that the young man had
met with foul play, nothing more was
said or done, and the next day they took
their departure and were never heard of
again. Mrs DOnahuc continued TO puZ-
zle over the strange experience and grew
more and more certain that the boys !
ghost had returned TO let her know that !
he had died on the mountain, and she re-
solved that just as soon as the weather