The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-02-03
dug TO GHOST STORIES.
Two Girls Captured Each Other Instead
OF n Burglar.


OF Burglar.
1t was & cold winters evening. just
such a one as nature gives for the
proper coloring to stories OF the i'm
aginatlve character. Ghosts could
be seen dancing and holding high
carnival on the glistening snow banks
outside. and fairy forms and hobgOb-
Inns seemed to burst forth at every
crack of the bright logs in the big
open CRATE.
As we sat there In the pa lor of the
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-curdling yarns,
Ehich he had heard in the West: the
girls told some wonderful ghost
stories, aud fairly let myself loose
in anecdotes Of crime which had
come under my observation as
police reporter, says correspondent
of the New York Journal
When at last we went to bed, our
minds we're keyed up to a very high
pitch, and l noticed that the girls
used extra precautions that night in
locking the doors and windows The
fact that q couple of suspicious look
| ing tramps had been turned away
earlier in the evening by my grand
| father also tended to make US moro
than usually careful
The girls retired to a V room, just
| at the head of the stairs, great big
chamber. such as is always set aside
as the spare room. furnished with y
| big double bed with four old fashioned
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 o
struggle For q moment we listened
and then we heard a high soprano
which we recognized as Flora 8
screaming
Help! Help! there's man in the
room"
At the same instant another voice
| which we knew at Cpce was Minnie 8
gave another and even more un-
earthly yell Of Help: He's killing
mer'
Fred was on his feet in an instant
and al he pulled his pistol out OF the
drawer 1 grabbed the lamp it only
took US q minute to rush out in the
hall. but in that sixty seconds OF
US that a most horrible sight would
meet our eyes.
/ Around the hall we bounded and a
kick from Fred sent the door of the
girls room bounding inward. He
cooked the pistol and l showed In
the light AS the rays from the
lamp shone around the apartment VIC
failed to discern any trace OF the man
A glance at the bed told the story.
Both girls were sitting upright.
Flora had tight grip on Minnie's
bangs and Minnie was clutchino
F1Ora's hair with both handA Both
were screaming at the top OF theiI
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 aud tossing about had
grabbed Minnie by the hair. AS she
did so she dreamed she had caught 6
burglar and yelled. Minnie. who was
also thinking OF the ghost stories
instantly surmised that n robber had
her and in self defense she had
grabbed Flora's hair Both hat
pulled for dear life and yelled at the
same time.
When the matter was explained a
the breakfast table next morning
grandfather put an emphatic EN- bar
go on any more ghost stories.