The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-05-25

is just as good. Now, you'd better
take it and run home"
But she gave that pitiful cry again:
please, teacher, find my doll for
me-"
You are not behaving nicely at ALL"
says l. "Fhat doll Is just as good.
Now. you'd better take it and u
home"
But she gave that pitiful cry again:
please, teacher, find my doll for
me-"
"You are not behaving nicely at all"
says 1. THAT doll is just as good"
Then, 1 don't know what possessed me
to say 1t. but l said: "She hasn't got
any mother. either"
How tightly she Rugged the doll and
kissed it again and again, and did not
say another word against 1T.
"Now, you'd better run home" says
1.
She rose up and courtesied, and l
was all ready to spring. l followed
her. l didn't know if | could keep her
in sight, but l did. and she went into
the graveyard. saw a CLEAN Of white
in there a minute; then 1t was gone.
That evening 1 went to DR.. EmmOns
and told him what had happened.
ANoNs oSc ""hS "a
where hat child was buried"
With a pale face he informed me
that the child had bee entombed in
the village cemetery.
Then l asked him to take a lantern
and go to the graveyard with me and
look in the tomb. | scarcely thought
/ could make him at first. He said the
Williams family had nearly all died
the others gone away. Ther wasn't
one Of them left. He didn't exactly
know who had the key of the tomb,
and he kept looking at me closely. !
suppose he was afraid l was getting
off my balance. He kept looking al
me. and then he felt my pulse and
counted it by his watch.
You don't want to give up the
school?" he inquired.
mo, I don't says l..
He went out after a while and pres
emily he came back with a lighted
lantern ard a key. l don't know
where he got it. Then We went dowr
the road to the graveyard. 1t was
dark night and it was raining a little
He went along in front with the Ian
tern, and l followed behind. He die
not speak a word the whole way.
When we came to the old graveyard
he opened the gate and we went in
His lantern lit up all the old head
stones and trees and scraggy bushet
as we went across to the Williams
tomb. 1t was not very far from tn
gate. A lot Of little bushes We're grow
ing out of the peaked 1oOf, and L real
Williams in the stone work ove tn
iron door. The doctor fitted the Ike.
in the iron lock while l held the Ian
tern. l felt as I used to when a chill,
in the dark, but 1 held the lantern'a
steadily as if my hand mad been a
iron hook.
1t was hard to turn the key in tn
paddock, but finally the catch snappe
g, back and he pulled off the paddock an
slipped the hasp. But even then h
5 could not open the door until he ha
=. cleared away some stones and pulle
up by the 1oots some little plants tina
: had grown over the threshold.
l After he had zone this he Opene
the door, and a puff of the sam
!, strange odor which l had notice
: about the child came into my fac
:. He took the lantern and stepped dow
e and into the tomb, and | after him.
a All of a sudden he stopped short an
S caught hold Of my arm.
the lantern light, right before us, Ia
the doll and the primer.
Never until then did 1 believe,
n supernatural appearances; but, as SUI
as 1 am a living woman, 1 am certat
: that the little figure I saw was the res
" less spirit of the murdered girl.