Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-03-13

owner gentle pressure of the hand. and
2 Come again-JOhn which Tommy
Duffy said proved that gals amt got no
hearts, but which to my mind really
proves that they have.
John went again, the next night. and
James eyes were not rec at all, more
over the gate was very hard to open,
or to close, or something, when he de-
parted.
The next day, John. who was assistant
fire boss at the Katy Did. rushed shout
ing to the foot of the shaft. threw him.
self on the carriage, and was jerked, at
the rate of fifty feet 70 the second, to
the surface. He stumbled towards the
engine house, white and trembling. and
with nervous fingers fumbled in the far
corner of the waste box. for the en-
gineers little brown bottle. When the
engineer rescued it, some color was in
Johns face but he trembled so that he
sat down, and with the tremor in his
limbs duplicated IN his voice, he ex-
claimed:
Ave seen a ghost Evans ghost.
Sure as ahm alive. In the old Simpson
vein. Was lOokin' for gas. Went through
No. headin'. All hears a noise. No
| a man comes out OF breast. All says
hello. He never answer. Hello ah
SAYS. He come on. All saw it was
Evan All shimmery and white like. He
justs points. All couldn't move. Then
/ he disappears. Out all comes. running"
He was frightened. There was no
doubling that. He still trembled, al
though it was broad daylight, but the en-
gineer laughed, and so did Tommy Duffy,
and so did-well, everybody.
The same afternoon Reddy Mike was
seriously burned by an explosion of gas
| in Evans chamber.
"Ah told you an told you cried John,
| although he had done nothing of the
kind; he's come to ha'nt the mine
Tommy Duffy and a gang" went down
to look at the damage. AS they APP
preached the breast, there was a cracking
and roar, and they sprang back just in
time to escape being crushed by fall
of coal from the roof.
That settled any doubts John might
have had Hell kill us ALL" he cried
.'he's come back to kill US and with
that he told 'old man. Jennings to get
somebody else in his place.
In the evening ne and Jane went walk
ing, but he did not tell her about Evan 5
ghost, nor about something else which
was on his tongues end His nerves were
shaken by the days doings.
The next night they avoided Mackin S
porch and its comments in their walk
and rambled over the hillsides above
where the laurel bushes grow, and hide
the neat little cockpit where, on a Sun
| day, the chickens-but that is Tommy
Duffy's gossip. Where the big mass OF
outcropping coal cast a deep shadow they
sat down, and after the lights in the
Patch became visible in the darkness they
were there and there the moon, blazing
in big yellow ball, and peeping over the
mountain, as it does at Brandy Patch
saw them. Something in its brilliance en-
couraged John, and he said:
"Ah'm a-goin' away, Jane, up to Sugar
Notch All don't like work here, an ave
got a good job there, All saw little
/ house. four room an wash-kitchen out
side. an ave got over hundred dollars
saved up. You'll like the house. There
a bit of garden, too, an pump right
in the yard" Il
Jane looked at the moon, but said moth
ing.
After long pause. John continued:
can ave got little life insurance"
Still there was no answer.
AN my mothers fine silk dress, yor
could cut it down to fit you"
Then he took her hand, and she point
ed to ring on the third finger.