New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-10
SOME FRENCH AND ENGLISH GHOSTS
STORIES TOLD ABOUT roRTo:.
From Good Words.

STORIES TOLD ABOUT roRTo:r.
From Good Words
Behnd the creek lies an interesting memento OF
me OLD French war. waled-in space where lie
buried countless prisoners who died during cap
uviV Most OF the graves are nameess mounds.
nut there are three headstones. The inscriptions
upon these are nearly undecpherable: one bears
the name OF Eugene -- Ohe remainder cannot b.
read This spot is sacred. enters it
but alongside in smae. walled space convicta
were buried. and this is utilized n practice
way corner obtainable FOR practice and diabolicaI
are tho noises that the learners make. A hundred
years Is long time II IS interesting. therefore, 10
note the respect still paid to the graves OF brave
Frenchmen in a place where space is very valuable.
All sorts Of legends crowd around this lonely
spot. II is. OF course. haunted. and In the old
days no sent there would keep at his post at
onnS nf b h s sen sad to 6
even when II appears no TWO accounts agree az TO
what IFS form may be It's latest authenticated
Seans; ABOUT nliee, years ago Whcn guard was
established ,S to look after the magazine hard by,
did not hal. at the challenge
II was on wnfer evening. deep snow upon
night Then sudderiy there came a sertry's chn;-
lenge. and almos, Immediately the report Of rife.
out. racing hth@r and thithe- in The snow raising
a hue-and cry. FIRST in this direction. then in THAI.
OF the guard investigated the matter he learned
from the sentry that large, black Thing had
on all fours when he challenged. He fired where
sometimes on ali fours, sometimes upright rushed
toward the creek followed bv tho sentry and The
nr tb re and though ,b m 9ff op
nothing was ever seen Of ii again. The captain.
some attempt may have been made went and
looked for the traces Of the footsteps. which
visible enough In the moonlight And now comes
the extraordinary part OF the story: For some
twenty yards there would he mans footprints.
times the one. sometimes the other but never the
TWO together.
Thus the Forton mystery. The ice was broken
and the creek dragged the next day. but nothing
found No satisfactory solution has ever
in IN. centre Of the old burial ground and led
thence toward the magazine. sometimes man and
the creek
this spot. but they are mostly grewsome and hor-
riblc rather than interesting. One. however. Is
ness about II not usual In the ghost story though
II is only remembered nowadays by five badgers"
senfries were s,rprised to see woman Coming
toward them in the twilight. II Sc med early for
taied she came up 10 them and said something In
"A foreign tongue-Spnnish. they took II TO he
language but She only smiled swee.y aud sadly
and walked on They lost her in the cleaning
but pr -sently. as they argued whether she
were ghost one Of thrm. tho bolter OF the two
peep..d over the wall into the battle-ground. and
side her stood French officer in uniform, near
that they could see his face. and they saw him
heard him speaking words OF love. Thereupon the
piuciScd up courage and looking over the wall too
shouted on, some coarse Joke and with the shout
ing both tho officer and the lady vanished. There
;pon he fired. and both Of them for il. meet
Ing the guard before they had gone many steps.
and the sergeant ~ the guard. coming back with
Them. looked the wall. No
visible, but one Of the graves were some tall,
white flowers that had not been there before.
They dared nor go nearer then. but in the daylight
the,' went TO look closer. The flowers mad
!shcd: and all that they found a soiled
piece Of paper on which was written: "Jusqu la
moric-et apres
However ghosts are never nowadays: and
they say that the buglers and the vicious rattle OF
the Maxim have driven them away.