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

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/ pistol practice. Occasionally strangers
| apparently well to do. went to the
house. and popular rumor ran that they
did not always come out again. The
| Marion tenure lasted from 1874 till
| 1890. Then the colonel" being old
and worn with excitement and. most
| of all. with high living fell I'll, and his
| spirit departed to unknown regions.
The Mochos, who were unsympathetic.
said he had gone to hell. But as he
had merely lived as other able men had
done in many periods of the worlds
history and gave of his substance to
the poor at all times we may cherish
the hope that he Jared as well as any
feudal baron.
The law of nature is that the long
armed and INSCRIPTIONS shall prosper
and why not in the beyond?
keen and prosperous lawyer named
Don Nicolas VaIdemoro. about 80 years
DID, was the next owner How he ar
ranged that little matter of the title !
don't know. He probably satisfied for
n song any legal heirs of the Allendes.
and Marron's estate had passed into
the hands of his only nephew.
The Licenciado Naldemoro was from
Puebla and as keen as the Pueblancs
have always been reputed to be. \
Philadelphia lawyer would have had to
take his dust on the highway of pro
fessional competition. And he was
hard headed He had come to Queren-
daro in 1883. two years before Marion
died. He liked the place and when the
time came bought it. His family con
sisted of his wife. Elena. and three
children of between - and IS. two
boys and a girl He had perhaps ten
servants, including the chief gardener,
who had poems under him, and they
don't count
People talked about Marron's uneasy
ghost walking about the rooms al
night without any regard to locked
doors. Servants staid but few weeks
as a rule and went away with queer
tales TO tell. The licenciado grew nerv-
Gus and, finally taking house a few
blocks away, began tearing down the
Allende- Marion casa. He confided to
his friends that he had no fear of any
thing phantasmal: but. his wife not be
ing able TO keep servants long. ii seem
ed best to pull down the house and
build a new one on its foundations,
and then be would have something
modern. with the up to date conven-
lences that women like so well. 1t was
year and half before the Waldo
moros went back to the place. into a
house spick and span, brand new and
smelling OF fresh paint and paper. with
a private electric lighting plant and
electric bells all over the house, which
The parish priest blessed the premises.
and there was a grand fiesta and any
amount of champagne. The ghosts
We're surely banished- They might
walk in the orchards. said the licencia-
do, and much good would il do them.
And the ghosts did remain away IN
til year ago. when they came back in
troops and with any amount of accu-
INFLATED ingenuity. You would have
said that il was Colonel Marion and
ell his desperate gang. The pride of
the licenciadoS 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 TO his guests and eXpatiate on
their merits.
He had sometimes talked OF having
a portrait painted OF Colonel Ma-ron
as sort OF fit historical subject. and
perhaps IL he had carried out his pur-
pose things might have gone better
with him But the Sonora de Waldo
moro objected and put her plump Mex
lean foot on the project
One morning the licenciado went in
TO the big sala. or parlor. for some pur-
pose 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 10 them. They got down on
their knees and assured el 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.
week after. the pictures having
been dr.ly restored TO their frames. the
same thing happened again. only this
time several costly paintings had been
ripped from ts4 frames and slashed as
with knives. Vaidenoro was wroth