Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-12

everyone was we'll, but Mrs. Savage
| looked anxious. So did her sister. So
also did Mr. Savage.
The ladies exchanged mysterious
glances with each other, and the gentle
man often shook his head warningly at
his eldest boy, when he had just open
ed his lips to say something.
Mr.. Savage often asked his wife what
troubled her, and she frequently said,
why are you so serious, my dear?"
At last Olivia was found in Mysteries
in the hall, and matters grew too SER
| ious to be kept quiet any longer.
Il must know what it u.s. said Mr..
Savage.
Don't tell him." sobbed Olivia.
Il don't see why you should be
ashamed of it, said Mrs. Savage. You
can't help it. It's nerves, l suppose.
| We'd better send for a DOCTOR
I'm not nervous" sobbed Olivia.
/ ooh, dear! dear, dear!"
There now" said Mrs. Savage. 81
declare l can't bear it any longer. My
dear, poor Livy has taken to ghost-see-
ing, and she's so affected me that real
ly have imagined something of the sort
myself. She secs a black woman ex-
actly like Peggy over and over again,
when Peggy is somewhere else to my
certain knowledge, and I've seen the
same thing twice. It's an optical illu-
sion, l presume; I've read of such
/ things"
Mr.. Savage turned pale.
My dear girls" said he, Tom is as
bad as you are. I've been threatening
to fog the poor fellow if he frightened
you with his stories; but he sees Peggy
in the barn, in the meadow, here, there
and everywhere; and he speaks to her,
and she does not answer; and then he
runs home and finds her in the kitchen
or where not, and naturally feels oddly
about it. l myself have seen the same
thing twice"
you have!" cried Mrs. Savage.
"You!" screamed Olivia. oh, I'm so
thankful; I'm not crazy, them"
ooh, dear, no." said Mr.. Savage; "oh,
dear, no. You see it is becoming plain
TO me that certain old superstitution
OF which | have read is founded on
fact. You've heard of people who had
doubles. Peggy evidently has a double
The wrath does not speak, you say.
That comedies with all the stories on
the subject. Yes, that's the solution
of the mystery. Peggy has a double >
( But we can't keep such mysterious
/ girl about the house. It's like hiring a
ghost" said Mrs Savage.
Suppose we talk to Peggy?" said Mr.
Savage.
The proposition met with favor. Peg
gy was sent for, and came at once.
Nov, my good girl, l don't want to
frighten you," said Mr.. Savage, but
| something odd has happened. Did You
ever have anything singular said to you
| about yourself-for instance, that you
= were seen where you never went, you
| know, or something like that?'
ooh, yes" said Peggy-"yes, sab, to
be sure; always hear the same story.
There's two of me. 1t scares folks, but
l can't help it,"
Doesn't it brighten your" asked Mr.
Savage.
I'm used to it," said Peggy, "Bein'
two of me got me lots of seedlings when
| | was owned by old marsa. cause, you
see, l can't help where t'other one of
me goes or what it does"
Yes, she has double said Mr.. Saw
! age; yes, yes. Very singular-very."
I'm sorry, Peggy" said Mrs. Savage,
but it frightens my sister very much,
and we shall be obliged to part. You've
been a good girl, Peggy. III pay you
| up to the end of the month, but l can't
bear ghost-seeing any longer
Very we'll, ma am said Peggy, "I'll
pack up. You must excuse there being
| two O. me- l can't help it."
Very singular" said Mr.. Savage.
"Very-very-very
Peggy went upstairs to pack her
clothes, and came down with her bun
! die.
IF you'd like to look over my things,
ma am" said she, there they are. If
there is two of me, why, I'm honest"
Then Peggy slowly proceeded to
spread upon the floor her worldly pos
! sessions, principally aprons and what
seemed like carpet rags, several pic
lures cut from newspapers, lump of
beeswax and a piece of pink-tinted
soap.
Nothing that amt NINE" she said,
and there's my pocket"
She turned this receptacle inside ont
as she spoke and spread out her hands.
I'm honest, if there is two of me, y
she said again. q can't help that"
Ma" cried Tom, just then bursting
in at the door. Peggy is going over
the bridge with big bundle-oh, why,
here is Peggy. Oh, my, look"