Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-10

nlBnts ana she smile rlBnt nacnul1ke and look most jest like she did befo' Prince Cholly had to go way. Long t'wads de mo'nin Miss Charlitt she dun raise right up in de bade and reach up her arms jest so and cry out ral jyful, Prince Cholly, but she aim neber say no mo. She drap back on her pillar, and de doc tor say hits all over, and he say hit too bad her husband ain thar, but Miss Charlitt's mammy she See the happy spreshun on Miss Charlitt's face, and she say, No; hit am bettah he ain heah. Lilly say she heerd dat Miss Charlitt's s ha mt is yer in this house too"
 The afternoon faded into the darkness of the evening. After my dinner l had to remain with Nose while he finished washing the dishes, as he was afraid to be left alone for even q moment His work over, we adjourned to the front parlor, and l permitted Nose to smoke a cigar with me As no ghosts seemed to come forth, thought they might ob- ject to the lights, and, much to the dis gust of Nose, I put them out in the hall and in the room where we sat. A soft radiance came in from the street, and We sat and smoked, and Nose, wishing NO appear NfAS Ai41 AhSAh he guessed that half the houses that were supposed to be haunted were not, and I was thinking of the beautiful Miss Charlotte when suddenly q figure passed swiftly and noiseicssly from the hall door to the fireplace and there vanished completely.
 " 'Fo God, nIahsa, jew see dat?" cried Nose, clinging around my neck, beseeching me ill one howl to protect him and ill another calling on the Lord to make him "a better nigger.
 1 have said that I am not supcrsti- tious HOT even nervous, but 1 had just seen what Nose had, and after his un- earthly bowling ill my ear I was nearly as much worked up as he was. We at once lighted the gas and started an in- vestigation, but discovered nothing
 tried all my persuasion, but Nose was determined to go. We, however settled that he should sleep at Lilly's and come to me early ill the mornings. told him there were no such things as ghosts, and that I should no doubt soon find out all about the apparition of the night before That evening. after he had finished his work and gone to sleep
 
 in such position that I could easily watch the door leading into the hall. l was in the dark smoking. and had not been seated long, when tall figure, seemingly that of a young man, passed hurriedly from the fireplace across the room and out into the hall.
 1 cried to it to stop. My voice echoed through the house and frightened me, it sounded so little like my own. I was about to start i'll search of the retrcating figure when there entered from the door two othcrs-thosc of a man and a woman They passed slowly enough for me to see them plainly, slIadowy as they were, and ran from the room and out the front door to the sidewalk. No; 1 was not mistaken There were the man and the woman-two negroes in flesh and blood-and down the hill Ut .hc corner of Second street was an cleo tric light l saw it all at once Any one passing ill front of the house would cast a deep shadow in my drawing room. I called out to the couple who had just passed: Hello there! Wait!' At my first invitation to wait they stopped. but as they located my voice
 
 the woman: 'Fo' God, Ephram Fo' de Lawd sake, look yonder. honey"'
 Approaching them. I asked if they would not please walk back past the house again. A. wished to see the phan- toms float across my parlor. Twas com pcllcd to wait for other passcrSby, how ever, for the gentleman addressed as Ephr'am and the lady under his pro lection had put two blocks between us before knew it Upon re-entering the house and waiting for more ghosts was rewarded. for when any one passed while the room was dark q correspond ing figure or figures would be seen pass ing either to or from the fireplace.
 A few days later Lilly told Nose that "a ham what look for all de worl like Prince Cholly dun come out from dat house last Thcwsday night, and hit dun chase Brudda Ephr am Joslyn and his wife clean from dare to de P street bridge, where, bein as how hit war ha mt, hit couldn't go no faddah.
 This flattcred my vanity. but 1t was humiliated immediately, for Nose ut terly refused to believe that the elegant figure of the ghost was no other than my own. I occupied the house a year, rent free, and have had it for six years at a minimum figure, but Nose still goes across the way to sleep every night. Sidney Austin Witherbee in Romance.