The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-05-03
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!. A CREEPY EXPERIENCE.
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We'll, sir" said Champion. when it
comes To the ghost business. suppose |
have had as varied an experience as any
man of my age in the country"
And You came in time" said FarweIl.
ito disb2lieve in the whole supernatural
business. of courSc:"
II cannot say that | came to any posi-
tive conclusion, but l think. on the con
trary, that | was led to abandon some
very positive conclusions which were not
unlike those which you seem to hold.
One was that because | could not see or
hear thing nobody else could. never
worked ont bit Of satisfactory evidence
of supcrmundane Interference 10y an in
yeStigation. But like everybody else who
goes into this sort of thing, | ran up at
last against 4 stone wall and then hauled
of. The diSturbers refused to disturb
when | was in the haunted house. The
pale blue light didn't tighten. The foot
steps in the hallway were silent The
cold air rec sed to blow even when
turned the hts down ut midnight. The
blood stains always turned out under the
microscope to be oxide Of iron Just as
the elixir of the clairvoyants turned out
10 be hypophosphates. Slade baiilcd me-
but never convinced me. Home disap-
pointed me, and the Undertaking. circles
weared me. If any man tried patiently
and fcarlessly to see a ghost, did"
And said Farwell, with considerable
satisfaction. you arrived at the sensible
conclusion that a ghost never is seen
That's what | said"
No" replied Champion. 81 came to
the conclusion that ghosts are seen"
Farwell laughed. 1T was some ma
hatna, or, more likely, gray eyed sibyl,
not At all ghostly HERSELF
NO" said Crampton 1T was a dog
that led me to that conclusion. In IS.
you will remember, | bought that old
house just out of Chambcrsburg in Penn
sylyania. You will recall the hi. dining
room, with its old fashioned fireplace,
and you may recall my mastif. Hubert
'llube,' we called him. There wasn't
anything mysterious about the house. 1t
was one of those old fashioned colonial
affairs without any special traditions
of interest and unaSSocatcd with any
crimes that ever heard of. Nothing oc-
cured in it to disturb a pleasant life
that | led there with my family until the
winter of IS. Dave Pettus had come
down and had been visiting US for sew
eral weeks. The fact is, we were doing
some work together on Il book for which
we had contract. 1t was about the
early history of Louisiana, and Pettus
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for the purpose. He and used to sit be-
fore that big fireplace at night, after the
family had retired, and discuss our work.
with bottle of old whisky on the table
Nearly always IIube would lie on the
rug before the fire, and .Alicc'S big cat
would be pretty sure to be asleep on the
cushioned bench at the corner of the
chimney. One night, while we were talk
ing about Lafitte and General jackson.
IIube growled ominouSy. jumped up and,
backing against my chair. began to bark
violently and exhibit unmistakablc signs
of terror. The cat with her fur stand
ing on end, made a break for the closed
door and began to cry piteousy to get
out. The disturbance was SO sudden
that Pcttus and | were startled There
stood the dog with his tail drawn down
Lnt,yppn his lp~s his uoSp nniutiD, .it
tbo sortboa.t cnr'o, of ,bo roam, onJ liz
hood slowly t1,,inc. nc Lo horl,od ~ If
Lis ,,og v.oro f,IInn.in,. 'son,otlin,, tI,at
u'as .lo,vly cros.ino tbe room diaoonalIy
70 tl,o northwest .o,.,or and nh tIIa lima
No u,os nnsbino or,;n.t INV char Win
III Ifnd nna,fnr. III. fnioboJ NH. nnr.
far,aa,co whom tho ol,icct of his nvrito.
mann had o,.;io,,i,. ,lf.,,,,oorod I.,. ,,rl..
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n,o ,,,r,l,,,..t c,,.,o,. If tlo ronr ,rd
ti',,o ..;,.inc - r,re,,nIl h,rl, to tho vain.
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soar1t'i,,, f.. tr,.,,.,s.o,.. o,,,.,rn5 ~
IT, r,li,,,1l =, .,'t III, ~ th, L,,,... onl
,,,han w., ,.o,t I,aE :, y.as van .nrna
d;Gia,,lt,. tI,ot .,,t hin, in a,oin put ba
utto,.l, ,.fn..d f. aa ma M. Jinin.
raa,, fan. Tho co, sbo di.,urnnrnJ
for three DAYS It's the most cXtraor-
binary performance over saw re-
marked TO Pcttus. and | can't imagine