Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-02-04
A LIVE GHOST.

"Why not9''
"Well, miss, there amt no accountin
for them things, but people do tell strange
stories about the grange bein hauntedr'
The grange, as Marian Couchley first
saw it, by the light of faint spring moon,
was glazing red brick house, its northern
gables entirely draped with ivy and it's
chimneys secluded from sight of the road
by dense growing evergreens. Mrs. More
ton was OH the steps to greet the newcomer
"a fair, pallid old lady.
II am glad to see you, my dear" she
said. "You must have had u dreary ride"
And Marian knew that she should love
her employer.
All the dwellers in the roomy mansion,
except the servants, were Mrs. Moreton,
her son Aldebert and herself
Aldebert Moreton-the name was like
knight of romance, and so was its owner.
II hope you like your room. miss" said
the old housekeeper, as she glanced around
the apartment to which she had conducted
Miss Couchley.
''It Is beautiful ROOM, said Marian.
"Tell me what is 1t about this house being
hauntedp"
"People will talk, MISS" Mrs. Brett
said, land It's small use tryin to stop 'en,
and the truth Is strange things have hap
pened in this house, although It's haunted
by nothin worse than sad memories.
Master Aldebert Is the last and youngest
Of three as noble boys as ever made an old
place glad"
"And what has become Of the othersp"
"The eldest Is Dead" Mrs. Brett an
swered In whisper. "He lies in bloody
o4,,s n1rn LII,
own brother in sudden fit Of passion.
Poor Mr.. Hugh! He fed the country to
escape from Justice and died in England.
1t nearly killed my mistress. There's her
bell now, and must CO."
So this was the history Of Moreton
Grange. Marian shuddered as she sat
alone by the fire, fancying the cry Of
murdered man in every sigh Of the wind.
She was sitting at her window one
moonlight night in July, long after the
family had retired, when something white
and spectral glided across the luminous
space on the lawn-the figure of q tall
man.
"The ghostr' she gasped inaudibly.
"The ghost!''
Nor did she rest until she had taken
refuge in Mrs. Moreton's room.
The old lady listened to her tale with
trembling silence.
My DEAR said she, "you are mistak-
en-. The jewellers of another world are
never allowed to come back to haunt this.
You were asleep-you dreamed uncon-
sciously."
She shuddered as she spoke. Mrs. More
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