The Saint Paul globe., 1898-01-30
Rob! It has frightened him almost out Of

R., Rob! i. It ;. has frightened him almost out of
Il should think so,'' cried with becoming
credulity. But how came he to see it?
thought you said it only passed at night"
AT midnight" she repeated. But Rob,
you see, is nervous lad, and night before
last he was so restless he could not sleep,
so he begged to be put in the window to cool
Off. This his mother did and he sat there
for a good half hour alone, looking out at
the moonlight. As his mother is an eco
nomlcaf woman, there was no candle lit in
the room, SO ne got his pleasure out of the
high foad TIL sddd5hfyy6d ought te to On hear eaT
the little fellow tell ftAhel felt the hair rise
on his forehead, and all his body grow stiff
with terror that made his tongue like lead
In his mouth. a something's thing he
would have called horse and carriage in
the daytime, but which in this light and un-
der the influence of the mortal terror he
was In took on distorted shape which made
II unlike any team he was accustomed to
was gong by, not as If being driven over
the earth and stones Of the road though
there was a driver in front a driver with
an ODD three-cornered hat on his head and
CLOAK ABOUT his shoulders, such as he re-
membered as having seen hanging in his
grandmother's closet, but as II it fioated
along without sound stir-in fact a spec
Ter team which seemed to find its proper des-
tlnation when 1t turned into Lost Mans lane
reputed road
"Pshaw!' was my spirited comment. as
she paused to take her breath and see how
| was affected by this grewsome taie "a
dream of the poor little lad! He had heard
ton supplied the rest
NO; excuse me, madam, but this is the
very very, point OF the tale: He had been care
FULLY kept from hearing any such stories
haElng enough to do TO bear his own troubles
without that. You could see this was true
6y by the way he told about it. He hardly be-
heVed what he had seen himself 1t was
not till some foolish neighbor blurted out:
Why, that was the phantom carriage" that
ne mad any idea he was not relating anv-
thlng but dream.
My second pshaW was no less married. +bor
the first. '--''' 'A'u ''i'N
He did know about it, notwithstanding.
l l. insisted "On.y he had forgotten the fact.
Sleep supplies US with these lost memories
we remember then what my never recur to
us in the daytime"
Very true, and you might be right NTiss
ButterWorth, if ne had been the only one
10 see this apparition But Widow Jenkins
saw saw It,, too, and she is a woman to be be-
This was becoming serious.
an saw 1t before or saw it afteP?'' I asked.
81 Does she live on the highway or somewhere
III Lost Mans lane?"
She lives on the highway ahou+ q hole
mile from the station. She was up with her
;n SICK nus husband an and saw it just as it was 60
no3ze thar Tue MI htii; she SAID 1t made no more
lolSe t than a cloud slipping by. She expects
to lose old Rause. No one could see such
a thing as that, she says, and not have some
misfortune follow ''H4e
laid all this up in my mind. NV hour
of waiting was not likely to prove wboIIv
unproftable "A'ilS
You see" the good woman went on with
Feilsh Tor the marvellous that stood me in
good stand. there is an old tradition Of
that road connected with a carriage. Years
ago, before any of US were born and the house
Where you are was a gathering place for all
the gay young bloods of the county Young
man came up from New York to visit Mr.
knoilys | do not mean the father or even
the grandfather of the folks you are visit
ing, ma am. He was great-grandfather to
Lucetta, and very fine gentleman IL Won
can trust the pictures that are left of him
But my story has not to do with him He
had daughter at that time widow of great
and sparkling attractions and though she
was older than the young man | have men
toned every one thought it would be a match
she was so handsome and such an heiress
But he failed to pay his court to her
and though he was handsome himself and
made a fool of more than one girl in the
town, every one thought he would go as he
nad come free-hearted bachelor when sud
y 9ehly one night horse and carriage were
iound lacking from the stables and he was
round lacking, too, and. what was worse
the young widows daughter, a chit who was
barely 10 and without a hundredth part of
the beauty OF her mother. Love and an elope-
ment only could account for this for In
those days young ladies did not ride with
gentlemen in the evening for pleasure and
when it came to the old gentleman's ears
and, what was worse, came to the mothers
there was commotion in that house
the echoes of which some say have never
died out. Though the pipers were playing and
the nddles were squeakng in the great room
where they used to dance the night away
Mrs. knollys with her white brocade tucked
up about her waist, stood with her hand on
the great front door, waiting for the horse
upon which she determined to follow
him. The father. who was man of 80 years
stood by her side. He was too old to ride