The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-10-10

sbolted Into the patio ara stald there,
yelling for the licenciudo, who arose
and went to the sala ard saw things
for himself. Els hair stood up all over
his head. He was badly scared man.
he swore rlppling, gentle oaths in the
creole manner too. 1t was plain that
the supernatural visitors wero no nd.
mirers cc the fine ats.
SO the pictures were taken down.
packed and sent away for storage.
The parish priest md h!s young assist
ants came and exercised the demons,
and things went we'll for few months.
Marion had never teen addicted to the
use Of holy water.
one afternoon In summer servant
was sent from the family sitting room
20 the dining room for glass of water.
She came back and said that midway
In the big dining room som. yody had
built wall and that shc could not
pass beyond it. Her face had grown
singularly white, and Eer knees shook.
The senorn went to the dining room,
a:a Sic, to-, run UP uguinst the invisi-
BILE wall. Then she properly and de-
corously, rs Is customary under such
circumstances, tainted dead away.
When the ;icenciado, who was away
from home. returned, he found his wife
In a high fever and delirlous. The serv-
ants told him what had happened, and
he was naturally ;cc--ccdd;3:!.oaS. Es vent enntt
to the dining room, but found no wall.
Then he cursed them for pack OF i'm.
beetles. But he was uneasy in his mind
for all that.
The next day he remained IN the
house. his wife still i'll. Once ne arose
and went to his library to fetch book,
and juet inside the library door he
found wall, solid. OF which you could
rap with your knuckles and hurt them.
He had q queer fec.,ng about the
stomach and in the throat and went
back to his bedroom to reflect and col,
lcct his senses. Then he returned to
the library and found the wall once
more. It was rough wall he could
tell by the touch, but he could not see
1t. He retired discomfted.
Next morning, he having said moth
Ing about the matter, he went once
again to the library and found no wall.
He accused himself OF being q victim
dizzy, and his nerves were unstrung.
+ The Invisible builders were active
for weeks. There were times when the
dining room was obstructed, and al
ways In the middle, across which q
good stiff wall had been erected, only
no one could see It, Nelghbors inti-
mate with the Valdemoro family we're
called In, and they felt the wall and
were wonderstruck. In an hour the
wall had vanished, and for months the
family could move about freely, but
a few we-:is ago the house became
again the scene Of building operations
Valdemoro called In an architect who
made measurements and finally sub
mitted plan. 1t was, in outline, q
very good sketch OF the old Anende-
Marion house; the old walls were ris-
ing just as they had before. Iokers
said that the dead and gone Allendes
were recovering their property, Of
which they had been dispossessed. The
ValdemorOs moved out during such
hours as the invisible builders made
their walls passnble. The house stands
unoccupied. Valdemoro is puzzling
over nice legal question-nnmely, the
right Of ghostly builders to erect q
house within your own. The descend
ants Of the old Mocho families of the
city are wagging their heads and say
Ing, II told you so." On some days
you can wander all over Licenciado
VaIdemoro's new house; on other days
you run up against unsceable walls.
The fame OF the house is spreading
beyond Querendaro. Some People say
1t is the work Of the Allendes; most
people fancy It Is trick Of "ColoneW
Marion and his lienchmen. don't
pretend to know; only put down the
story as told by travellers from Queren-
daro.
1t is q psychical "nut" Of the most
unbreaiSable sort.-Boston Herald.
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