The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-25

Old was the next over. How he arrarg-
ed that little matter f the title don't
know He probably stis6ed for a song.
any legal heirs of the 3lendes and Mar
ron's estate had passed ,to .be hands of
his only nephew.
The Licenciado Valderoro was from
Ruebia, and was keen a. the Ponlonos
have always been reputed 4 be- A Phila-
delphia lawyer would hAv. bod IA take
his dust on the highway of ,rofassiona.
competition. And he was has headed
He had come to Querendaro in cas- two
years before Marion died. He liI,d tho
place and, when the time came, Lught
it. His family consisted of his wife ksna
and three children of between II and q
two boys and a girl. He had perhaps
ten servants, including the chief garden
er, who had poems under him and they
don't count.
People talked about Marron's uneasy
ghost walking about the rooms az night
without any regard to locked doors. Ser
wants stayed but few weeks as a rule
and went away with queer tales 10 tell.
The licenciado grew nervous and, finally
taking a house few blocks away, be-
gan tearing down the Allende- Marion ca
sa. He confided 90 his friends that he had
no fear of anything phantasmal, but his
wife, not being able to keep servants
long ID seemed best 10 pull down the
house and build a new one on its foun-
dations, and then he would have some
thing modern with the up-to-date con-
veniences that women like so we'll. 1t was
a year and a half before the Valdemoros
went back 10 the place into a house spick
and span, bran new and smelling of fresh
paint and paper, with a private electric
lighting plant and electric bells all over
the house, which was of one story like
the old place. The parish priest blessed
the premises and there was a grand fiesta
and any amount of champagne The
ghosts were surely banished. They might
walk in the orchards, said the licenciado,
and much good would it do them.
And the ghost did remain away until a
year ago, when they came back in troups
and with any amount of accumulated in
genuity. You would have said -hat it was
"col." Marion and all his desperate gang.
The pride of the licenciado's heart was his
collection of oil paintings, many of them
selected by him in Europe, and valued at
MANY thousands of dollars. He liked to
show them 70 his guests and expatiate on
their merits.
He had sometimes talked of having a
portrait painted of Cor Marion as a sort
of fit historical subject, and perhaps if
he had carried out his purpose things
But the Sonora de Valdemoro objected,
and put her plump Mexican foot on the
project.
One morning the liceneiado went into
the big sala, or parior, for some purpose,
and noted with Indignation that several
paintings had been pulled from their
frames and lay on the floor He called
up all the servants and read the riot act
to them They got down on their knees
and assured ell senior amo that they could
not have been guilty of such vandalism.
II was evident that they were sincere,
and badly frightened into the bargain.
A week after, the pictures having been
duly restored 10 their frames, the same
thing happened again. only this time sew
eraI costly paintings had been ripped
from the frames and slashed as with
knives Valdemoro was wroth, and con-
suited the chief OF police, who sent two
trusty and confidential men TO stay In the
parlor nights. They remained on guard
ten DAYS, when one night they heard pic.
lures falling from their frames and heard
q smashing of mouldings which terrified
then. They boiled into the patio and
STAYED there, yelling for the licenclado.
who aroee and went to the sa,a and saw
things for himself. His hair stood up all
over his head He swore ripping gentle
oathr in the creole manner. too. IL was
plain that the supernatural visitors were