The Savannah morning news., 1900-08-25

no admirers of fine arts. So the pictures
were taken down, packed, and sent away
for storage. The parish priest and his
young assistants came and exercised the
demons, and things went well for few
months. Marion had never been addicted
to the use of holy water.
One afternoon in summer servant wes
sent from the family sitting room to the
dining room for a glass of water; she
came back and reported that midway In
the big dining room somebody had built
wall and that she could not pass be-
You'd It, Her face had grown singularly
white and her knees Shook. The sonora
went 10 the dining room and She too.
ran up against the invisible wall. Then
she properly and decoTously Gas Is GUS
| emary under such circumstancee) tainted,
dSd away. When the icenciado, who
wa away from home, returned he found
his life in a high fever and delirous.
| The srvants told him what had happen
ed, am he was naturally incredulous.
| Then he cursed them for a pack of i'm
beetles aut he was uneasy In his mind
for all tina
The next say he remained in the house.
| his wife stili'H. Once he arose and went
to his library to fetch a book, and just
| inside the librT-y door he found wall,
knuckles and htt them.
| He had queer ceiling about the stom-
| ach and in the thrat and went back to
his BEDROOM so reject and collect his
| senses. Then he returned to the library
and found the wall o1ce more. 1t was
a rough wall he could tell by the touch
but he could not see 1t. He retired dis
committed.
Next morning. he haVhg said nothing
1ANst& h.
the library and found no wal. He accused
himself of being a victim of a haliuci-
| nation, But his brain was dizzy and his
nerves unstrung.
| The invisible builders were active for
weeks; there were times wher the dining
room was INSTRUCTED, and always in the
middle, across which a good stiff wall
had been erected. Only no one could SEQ
it. Neighbors intimate with the VALDEZ
moro family were called in, and they felt
the we'll and were wonderstruck In an
hour the wall had vanished, and for
months the family could move about
freely; but few weeks ago the house
became again the scene of building opera-
lions. Vaidemoro called in an architect,
who made measurements, and finally sub
mitted a plan: It was, in outline q very
good sketch of the old AlIende-NTarron
h@-se; the old walls were rising Just as
VHFN NdQ DtlOtfs JOhGtS SHtd that the
dead-and-gone Allendes were recovering
their property. of which they had been
disposed The Valdemoros moved on,
during such hours as the invisible made
their walls passable. The hoifse stands
unoccupied Valdemoro is puzziine over a
nice legal question, namely. the right of
ghostly builders to erect a house within
your own. The descendants of the old
Mocho families OF the city are wagginr
their heads and saying. IT told you so .
on some DAYS you can wander all over
Llcenciado Valdemoros new house: on
other days you run up against unseeabe
walls.
The fame of the house Is spreading be-
yond Querendaro Some people say II IS
the work OF the Allendes: most people
fancy II IL a trick OF col" Marion and
his henchmen. ! don't pretend to know.
I only put down the story as told by
travellers from Querendaro.