Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-05-22
THE GHOST LAID.


tious family. Had they been they would
have moved to tho city and taken a fiat
when tho father failed, instead of going to
that ramshackle old house at Comeck.
was n lovely old house, without doubt,
butt
Well, Mr.. Brewer fixed the house up 90
that It would do to live in for awhile at
any rate, until better times should come,
and they had furniture enough to make
them comfortable. Grandfather Brewer
declared that he didnt care for even bed
when he had his wheel chair. and, In fact,
any one Of the family would have been
content to sleep In It.
This wonderful chair was a patent one,
and when grandfather was not using 1t, or
the twins were not pushing each other
around in IL as q "choochoO carr or a
steamboat, Its four legs were allowed to
stand upon the doory the wheel legs being
raised under tho seat so that they would
not be in the way This Eas all that was
wonderful about grandfather,s chair, ex-
cept that 1t was covered with fne soft.
leather, and not one Of the springs was
broken. It stood In the corner of the sit
ting room nearest the bay window, when
not In use, and was quite an ornament.
As you may have inferred from what
have said, the Browers had very little
money, and In consequence they had to
condense themselves, as 1t were, to fit the
part OF the house which was furnished.
The sitting room was large, square room
and three bedrooms, and the nursery opened
into It, Mr.. and Mrs. Brewer had one
room, Tony and Ben another, grandfather
the third and Emily slept in the nursery
with the twins
Everything went on very smoothly In
the Brewer household until one night EN-
lily commenced to hear noises. They were
queer noises that seemed to come from the
sitting room, and she couldn't just ac-
count for them in the sleepy state of her
senses at the time, but she wasn't afraid
oh, no. So she did not mention the fact to
the family that she had been kept awake
nearly all night by strange sounds.
But the noises were really there, for To-
ny and Ben announced one morning that
the house must be haunted as they had
heard such peculiar whizzing sounds dur
Ing the night. 1t wasn't long before the
whole family became aware that something
that wasn't visible in the daylight Occu-
pied tho sitting room at night.
III it's a person." said Bon, "I'll fix |
him." And that night he tied cords in |
many different positions about foot above |
the floor, hoping to trip up the intruder.
But II he expected to hear loud thump |
from the falling of a heavy body which
had been tripped by the cords he was dis
appointed. All the sound that was heard
was the same old Notwithstanding
that they all knew by heart now.
Spirits" limited Tony darkly the next
day when they found that the cords had
not been touched.
And Emily, who was of a very senti-
mental turn Of mind, wove a sad romance
about beautiful girl who had lived there
many years ago, when the house was new.
The beautiful girl (accorNng to Emily's
tale) had been wooed and won by dash
ing soldier, who had to leave his promised
bride and take up his duty on the battle
field. The girl had promised not to mourn
in his absence an" -
.-,svv herself to work to
make her wedding garments. So she sat
at her wheel and whiled away the weary
hours by spinning and weaving and think
Ing of her soldier lover. For long time
she kept this up, singing blithely at first
and sitting at the window, where she could
catch the first glimpse of his return. Day
after day her singing grew weaker, as her
lover failed to come, and before her we'd
ding garments were finished her singing
had been hushed, her work dropped, and
she had died. The whirring and whizzing
noise, Emily declared, was the ghost Of the
beautiful maid working her wheel to have
her wedding garments finished by the time
the dallying lover turned up.
Mr. and Mrs. Brewer didn't try to solve
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said that even in the best built houses
queer noises were often heard, and they
must expect it in that old house.
Grandfather was very much interested |
in the noise and he told Emily he thought
her solution was captivating, and he in
tended to leave tho lamp burning i'm the |
sitting room and see for himself the ghast.
ly maiden at her spinning wheel.
That night he left a light in the sitting |
room in order that he might keep watch, |
and the next morning announced that he
had solved the mystery
"If you will all stay awake tonight you
will probably see the ghost, too, said |
grandfather mysteriously, and conse- |
quently the children each took nap I'm |
the afternoon and drank cupful Of strong |
coffee in the evening-the latter without |
their mothers knowledge, 1 am sorry to |
say-to keep them awake.
The waiting was very tedious, and It |
must have been about 12 o'clock-the time
all well regulated ghosts make their ap-
grandfather whispered:
"Shl There she Is nowp' And in q min
ute six pairs Of eyes were directed through |
the door into the sitting room.
"WhereS" whispered Emily. II don't
see her," 0,cs-sSJ
1.:eh grandfather polsted tc,the cornef
near the window where hfs6 patent chair
stood, and there was-what do you sup
posef
With q whiz-z-z and . whir.rr, the
wheels Of the patent chair were rapidly re-
volving one after the other as little mouse
ran around them In the manner OF squir-
rel exercising on the wheel In his cage.
The mouse was having the best kind OF
simo first on one wheel and then on an.
other.
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