The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-29


once You come into this great square hall aud
in front Of you il the little staircase clinglng To
y"nd lar are large sousrs rooms with paneiling and
carving. II IL a beautiful house STILL or II would
be IL IL were not for this
She threw open the door leading to the L. There
were the empty walls, stone ON stone, with bits 0i
pastering sill clinglng. with the splinterrd ends
Of beams still held firm, with the hreplaces sui
gaping wide.
Il cannot stand it another minute" cried the
near me in this house, and am afraid Of being
pushed into the cellar hole"
They left the house quickly. For a minute
they stopped TO look again at the old mill and it's
date, l746 seven years earlier than the house.
Then they walked briskly back toward the col,
close by the edge Of the Far Pond. sullen sheet
passed this, they followed foolpath along the
brook through the meadows !" The other pond
All The way they aksd Of Kiln the h rGs
there" said the Graduate Student People come
from great distances, move in stay one or TWO
house about fifteen years ago painted and papetcd
it and put furnacein. He got a tenant from Chi
cago, The man came Fast with his wife, She
heard the stories, looked at the house aud refused
TO enter it So they went back ID Chicago, and
There are rumors OF strange lights and noises
from sunset TO sunrise. llayetford College boys
make up parties to spend the night there but
have never heard about their experiences |
myself believe that sometimes ramps lodge there,
ghost or no ghost 1t is bad ncg hborhood
u
| promise Of not going there alone. II isn't safe
and you have 10 consider the good Of the college
as well as your own safety
| Another girl and myself hundcrcd on the
| place one spring day when We were hunting Wild
azalea. We explored out Of Idle curiosity, but
| we each Of us had that curious feeling Of being
watched from the heart shaped holes We felt
| that something or somebody looked ont at us
| and as We went from side Ia side Of the house,
| followed us, shifting from window 10 window
| We caught each others fIrliye gl1pccs confessed
ne d ndprl ltIt kIl con nat
| stand u long. and so arrived at college dripping
Wet We told our adventure at thr dinner table.
| Then, for the first time we heard the story, You
| than yours for we did not know beforehand any
| thing about the house
| The people in the village believe the story
| but act queer If you mention it, They will not
Yell 1t to you, but confirm it if you tell it To them
1t seems TO me that they act like people who live
| under constant terror Some Of the girls know
started out once deliberately for Information
view with The owner himself He admitted that
he could not let the house and he supposed the
| know that there was any foundation for them
II is from him We have the story OF the repairs
| there is supposed 10 be an underground passage
to the SGhuylkill River as there is at Valley F9Igr
ioId than a BTEn MexI story, r, ,,,
| There was silence for white. The ,giris made
acirCult around the woods, instead OF going
through them and came back 10 the college
grounds past group Of private residences. As
| they turned the last corner, the Graduate Student
stone house, well back from the street
That is our other haunted house" she said
indiiTerenty we never heard much Of ii until
three years ago, when one of our girls went over
there To sleep with friend who WAS visiting her
| You know guests cannot sleep in the dormories
| They had separate rooms in the third story. This
| girl suddenly walked and, starting up, raw
| Of the room She called her friend and they
searched the room There seemed TO be no pos
| lay down together. They saw nothing SO,
after li,Ie. The friend went back to her room
and ii disappeared. They repeated this several
times and then gave UP and slept together in the
| single bed in the other room. In the morning
| the mainsnring OF the girls watch was found
broken The strongest hing is that told this
three or four months and slept on that floor but
| not in that room. She had never heard the story
| before but exclaimed Immediately:
| why, that accounts Tor Miss Tower
:, This Miss Tower i seemed spent week in
ne haunted room. She was as, stout healthy
not sleep atss. She was nervous without know
walked in a few minutes with the feel ng that some
| one had forced her 10 wake. The last night she
of thy 1n% n't "% c Sq
| 10 be allowed 10 stay there. She was a stranger,
| the bed was narrow, and the girl hated bed
iellow' so she compromised by sitting in the
| She left her hut in ten minutes Miss Tower was
give in finally and share her bed. There are
| two things ! want you 10 notice about this story.
One is that both these girls speak from their own
know. The other is that the second sin certainly
knew, nothing about the reputation Of the room"
| usually follows long walk at Bryn Mawr. the
Graduate Student resumed her record Of ghost
| stories,
There is girl in the college who lives in still
| another haunted no Use not far from here. She
i one Of LA large family Her father said when
out he said While the Children were young
they saw nothing, but four or five years ago the
| oldest son met lady dressed in gray. She passed
him on the stairs and he, supposing her 10 be one
OF his sistfr J,nds said nothing Then his
| Ing in the sitting room. She was holding back
the curtain To look out Of the window. but when
| the sister entered the room, she turned and went
| out She is always like that. silent, ladylikc,
almost commonplace. She seems to live in the
| member Of the family who has never seen her
That is the next to the oldest daughter, who at
tends to the housekeeping and ought to have
been the first 10 see her"
Is there any reason for the Gray Ladys APP
| pearancc?" asked the friend
None that is known. They connect her, how
| ever, with small room which they boa rdcd up
| when they moved into the house She rcapp"aIcd
about the time when the room was opened and
Surely Bryn Mawr has no other ghost stories"
There is a story which We have borrowed from
| SO we feel as though the story belonged to us
| 1t Is almost dark enough for me 10 tell it,"
With that the Graduate Student put down her
! emptyiCup and began seriously.
"A CuCg" fellow got into sCufTlr with his
room mate and in the midst Of his footing throtIcd
| him and killed him, Being frightened almost To
death, his first instinct To keep the horrible
| affair a secret and hide the body After much
| thought he hit on this plan. He put ovcrcoat
and cap and gloves on his dead room mate and
| finally strapped skates on his feet. Then after
| dark, he took him on his hAck down the stairs
with the skates dragging on the polished wood.
and carried him out to the skating pond in the
meadow AT the far CocnCr Of the campus There
he broke a hOc in the ice and dropped his loom-
mate into the water Tho next day the body
was found. Every orc sum, Srl the fellow had
broken through the ice while skating and had
been drowned.
Night came again but the hoy could not sleep
| As he sat alone in his room, trying hard not 10
think, he heard again III" sound OF the skates on
the stairs, dragging ON the landings cliuking on
| the steps and always coming nearer tie sprang
| to the door and locked it, The sounds continued
y approach until they stopped outsid" his door
Something turned the dOOrnub and pressed against
| the door, hut the lock held. \ pause and thcn
two swollen hands, bursting from wet gloves
| FpI Mt pIl ~, mn.