The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-02-03
DUE TO GHOST STORIES.
Two Girls Captured Each Other Instead
of burglar.

Two Girls Captured Each Other Instead
OF u burglar.
1t was q cold winters evening, Just
such a one as nature gives for the
proper coloring to stories OF the i'm
aginative character. Ghosts could
be seen dancing and holding high
carnival on the glistening snowbanks
outside. and fairy forms and hobgob-
Inns seemed to burst forth at every
crack Of the bright logs in tho big
open CRATE.
AS We sat there in tho parlor OF tho
big farmhouse. watching the glow
ing logs. we fully bent ourselves to
the surroundings. and our imagin-
ations had full sway. Uncle Fred re-
lated long and blood-curdlin yarns,
which he had heard in the West: the
girls told some wonderful ghost
stories, and fairly let myself loose
In anecdotes OF crime which had
ccme under my observation as a
police reporter, says correspondent
of the New York Journal.
When at last we went to bed, our
minds wore keyed up to very high
pitch, and l noticed that the girls
used extra precautions that night in
locking the doors and windows. The
fact that a couple OF suspicious look
ing tramps had been turned away
earlier in the evening by my grand
father also tended to mako us more
than usually careful.
The girls retired to V room, just
at the head OF the stairs, great big
chamber, such as is always set aside
as the spare room, furnished with u
big double bed with four old-fashloned
high posts. My Uncle Fred and l
slept in the low-ceiling chamber, in
the other wing OF the house. A
long, narrow hall winding around
the top OF the open staircase sepa-
rated the two apartments.
Uncle Fred and | had been asleep
about two hours when we were sud-
denly awakened by the sound of a
struggle. For moment We listened
and then we heard high soprano
which we recognized as Flora's
screaming
"Help! Help! there's man in the
room"
At the same instant another voice
which we knew at once was Minnie's
gave another and even more UNI
earthly yell of Help! He's killing
mer'
Fred was on his feet imam instant
and as he pulled his pistol out OF the
drawer l grabbed the lamp. 1t only
took us minute to rush out in tho
hall, but in that sixty seconds of
space we heard enough to convince
US that most horrible sight would
meet our eyes.
Around the hall we bounded and
kick from Fred sent the door OF the
girls room bounding inward. He
cooked the pistol and / showed in
the light. AS the rays from the
lamp shone around the apartment we
failed to discern any trace of the man.
A glance at the bed told the story.
Both girls were sitting upright.
Flora cad tight grip on Minnie's
bangs and Minnie was clutching
Flora's hair with both hands. Both
were screaming at the top OF their
voices and both were fast asleep.
1t didn't take long to solve the
mystery after getting the girls awake.
Flora, in her slumbers, had dreamed
of burglars and tossing about had
grabbed Minnie by the hair AS she
did so sho dreamed she had caught a
burglar and yelled. Minnie. who was
also thinking of the ghost stories,
instantly surmised that robbcr had
her and in self defense she had
grabbed Flora's hair. Both had
pulled for dear life and yelled at tho
same time.
When the matter was explained at.
the breakfast table next morning,
grandfather put an emphatic embar
go on any more ghost stories.