Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-10-11

and consulted the chief of policesh 10
sent two trusty and confidential men
to stay in the parlor nights. Tn re-
mained on guard ten days. wheone
night they saw pictures faumgrom
their frames and heard sInashs OF
holdings which terrified them. hey
bolted into the patio and staid sre.
yelling for the licenciado. who rose
and went 10 the sala and saw ings
for himself. His hair stood I'D apver
his head. He was badly scarenan.
lie swore ripping. gentle oaths the
creole manner too II was plaithat
the supernatural visitors were ! adj
mirers of the fine arts
So the pictures were taken own.
packed ard sent away for stage.
The parish priest and his young ssist-
ants came and exercised the daons.
and things went well for few unths.
Marion had never been addictedo the
use of holy water.
one afternoon in summer a swami
was sent from the family sittinroom
to the dining room for glass offater
She came back and said that Midway
built a wall and that she coui not
pass beyond it, Her face had rown
singularly white. and her knees hook.
The sonora went to the diningroom,
and she. too. ran up against thenvisi-
BILE wall. Then she properly ad de
coroIsly. rs is customary unde such
circumstances. tainted dead away.
/, ben the iicenc.ado. who was away
- homo. returned. he found rs wife
L IA 5Gvcr and delirious. Th serv-
: tlld t;.I what had happend, and
was aE5lIal!y inc-edulous Ee went
tie G.a..., room. but found ID wall.
lien ~ "e.std them for a pack of i'm
Giles. IsGt he was uneasy in hs mind
for all that
he neSt day he remained In the
house. his wife still i'll. Once BE- arose
and went 70 his library TO fetch book
and just inside the library DIOR he
found wall. solid. on which you could
rap with your knuckles and hurt them.
He had a queer feeling about the
stomach and in the throat and went
back to his bedroom to reflect and col
ect his senses. Then he returned to
he library and found the wall once
more. 1t was a rough wall be could
ell by the touch, but he could not see
I. He retired discounted.
Next morning, he having said moth
ng about the matter, he went once
gain to the library and found no wall
lie accused himself of being victim
f a hallucination. But his brain was
izzy. and his nerves were unstrung.
The Invisible builders were active
Or weeks. There were times when the
lining room was INSTRUCTED, and al
Ways in the middle. across which a
God stiff wall had been erected. only
% one could see 1t. Neighbors init
nate with the Valdemoro family We're
allied in, and they felt the wall and
we're wonderstruck. In an hour the
5alI had vanished, and for months the
amily could move about freely. but
few weeks ago the house became
gain the scene of building operations
'aldemoro called in an architect who
made measurements and finally sub
litted a plan. 1t was, in outline, a
cry good sketch of the old Allende-
1arron house; the old walls We're ris-
is just ds tilts btlOi .IphtlS
aid that the dead and gone Allendes
we're recovering their property, of
Thich they had been diSpossessed. The
'aldemoros moved out during such
ours as the invisible builders made
heir walls passable. The house stands
noccupied Naldemoro is puZZling
yer a nice legal question-namely, the
light of ghostly builders to erect a
ouse within your own. The descend
nts of the old Mocho families of the
ity are wagging their heads and say
lg. Il told you So" on some days
on can wander all over Licenciado
aldemoros new house; on other days
on run up against unseeable walls.
The fame of the house is spreading
beyond Querendaro. Some people say
is the work of the Allendes: most
eople fancy ii is q trick of Colonel
Iarron and his henchmen. l don't
retend to know; only put down the
DRY as told by travellers from oueren-
arc.
II is a psychical nut" of the most
sorI.-Boston Herald.