The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-08-27

dc mantel In dc 'front.' pa'la and 10 MP
stayahs and fling hisself ON de bed, an
he must been pretty near 'stracted, too,
Gus de sheets was tored all to pieces
Den he must gone into de sittin room
up stayahs and shot hisself, Gus OATS
whar de blood commenced, and hit war
splash'd all long de hall and down de
stayahs and into de front pa'la whar de
big red stain IL. Lilly say dat she been
tole dat aftah he shoot hisself he t'ink
bout de lettah he drap ON de 40, and
he drag hisself all dc way down dare
and burn hit up, all 'ceptin q little piece
'thout no writin on hit, and nobody ain
ever know what Miss Charlitt dun
write to him. And Lilly she say dat
Prince Cholly's ha'nt crawls down dem
steps and ober to de pa'la fireplace and
burns dat lettah ev'ry night"
Yes" ! said. II presume it does,
but what of Miss Charlotte?''
jest gwine TO tell you dat Lilly she
say dat when Miss Charlitt she heah
what Prince Cholly dun gone and do she
up and comes home to her nanny in
Alexandry and doan' eat nuthin, bat lust
lay ON de bed and cry and cry Jest 90 her
heart would break. And den de fevah
come, and she git 'stracted and doan'
know anybody, not even her own mann
my. She crowd worse every day tell abe
aim lookin no more like Miss Charlitt
than anything. The Doctor tell her
nanny she ain gwine 20 live long and
say she bettah send TO- her husband, but
her NANNY say no, NOT TO- him. Miss
Charlitt she sleep right peaceful dat
night, and she smile right nachullike
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 babe and reach up her
arms Jest 80 and cry out raj jyful, Prince
Cholly, but she ain 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 nanny she see the happy
spreshun on Miss Charlitt's face, and she
say, No; hit am bettah he aim heah. >
Lilly say she heerd dat Miss Charlitt's
ha'nt liz yer In this house too"
The afternoon faded into the darkness
OF the evening. After my dinner I had
to remain with Nose while he finished
washing the dishes, as he was afraid to
be left alone for even a moment His
work over. we adjourned to the front
parlor, and / permitted Nose TO smoke
q cigar with me- As no ghosts seemed
to come forth, / thought they might OBJ
ject 60 the lights, and. much to the dis
gust of Nose, I put them ont in the hall
and in the room where we at. A soft
radiance came in from the street, and
we sat and smoked, and Nose, wishing
to appear courageous, wa saying that
he guessed that half the houses that
were supposed 20 be haunted were MOI,
and / was thinking Of the beautiful
Miss Charlotte when suddenly q figure
passed swiftly and noiselessly from the
hall door to the. fireplace and there
vanished completely.
'Fo God, mahsa, Jew see dat?''
cried Nose, clinging around my neck,
~beseeching me LIN one howl to protect
him and In another calling ON the Lord
10 make him "a better niger"
/ have said that I ann not supersti-
tiOus % even nervous, but / had inst
seen what Nose had, and after his nm
earthly bowling in my ear ] was nearly
as much worked up rs 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 60. We, however
settled that he should sleep at Lilly's
and come to me early in the mornings.
] told him there were no such things as
ghosts, and that / 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 |
across the way, / again planted myself
i'm such o position that I could easily
watch the door leading into the hall. I'll
was in the dark smoking, and had not
been seated long, when a tall figure, |
seemingly that Of a young man, passed
hurriedly from the fireplace across the
room and ont into the hall.
/ cried to it to stop. My voice echoed
through the house and frightened me,
it sounded so little like my own. / was
about to start in search of the r~etreating
figure when there entered from the
door two others-those of a man and a |
woman. They passed slowly enough for
to see them plainly, shadowy as
they were, and i ran from the room and
ont the front door to the sidewalk. No;
I was not mistaken. There were the
man and the woman-two negroes i'm
flesh and blood-and down the hill at |
the corner of Second street was an cleo
trio light. ] saw it all at once. Amy
q passing in front OF the house would
cast o deep shadow In my drawing
room. ] called ont TO the couple who
had just passed: Hello. therel Waltz,
At my first invitation to wait they
stopped, but as they located my voice
and my figure there came q howl from
the woman: ''Fo' God. Ephr,ami Fo'
dc Lawd sake, look yonder, honeyi''
Approaching them, I asked II they
would not please walk back past the
house again, as I wished to zee the phan-
toms float across my parlor. Twas com
PEELED TO wait for other passersby, how