Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1902-07-10

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zone OF the maids, sir?' cried Thorn
Is.
Eyes, Thomas. She kept running In
to my room at least every half hour to
look In the glass and admire herself.
She came out Of that door," and he
pointed to one In q corner, "and walk
ed straight up to the mirror; the light
from the night lamp fell upon her face;
she seemed to catch my eye In the
glass each time, and smiled at me as
she did So She wore a short, quilted
skirt little black bodice, and full
white sleeves. She had a gold cross
tied about her neck by black ribbon,
and wore a little cap on her black
braids-a young girl with French
| face, Thomas. Do you know her"
Thomas made no answer. He look
ed at the gentleman steadily and grew
pale. AT last he spoke:
"If have the honor of understand.
Ing you, sir, the young person came
through the door,
"Yes," said the American.
"More than once, sir?'
"Ab0ut once IN hour from midnight
until dawn"
"And smiled at you In the glass:
where you saw her face? | understand
she did not look toward you as she
passed, sir?"
Right, Thomas"
MAY beg you to do me the favor
of looking into this room, STRIP
The gentleman followed Thomas to
the door through which he asserted
that the young person passed, and saw
nothing but closet about twelve feet
square, with no door save the one that
opened into the large room, and high
In the ceiling a little window through
which bird could scarcely have
flown. 1t contained no furniture what.
ever.
"There must be a secret door-Or-0r
-somethlngw cried the American. u
am not mad, and was wide awake"
Eyes, sir" said Thomas, still more
solemnly. "An ordinary young person
could not have contrived to disappear,
but the young person you have seen
has been an apparltlon, sir, for more
than 200 years"
IAN appartionw cried the American
gentleman.
Eyes, sir" replied Thomas, ian ap-
partition, sir, think you have seen
Lady IS gentlewoman Rosette, sir.
1t is ten years since she was seen be-
fore to my knowledge, but she has
been seen often"
II should like to hear more about
Rosctte," said the gentleman.
Eyes, sir" said the valet. "This IL
an old family, and about 200 years ago
there was a Lord Herbert who was a
gay, wild young nobleman, and was a
great admirer of the ladies', sir. How.
ever by the time he was 80 he was
married and settled down, and began
to be much thought of and respected
So was his lady, too, sir, though she
was not handsome and was naughty.
zone thing, however, the English
servants did not like-she brought a
foreign maid with her from France-a
girl named Rosette and as pretty as a
picture.
Zone day, sitting before her glass;
Rosette combing her hair for her, she
heard her husband come into the room.
Her back was toward him and Rosette
was behind her, and they forgot the
mirror, and 50, sir, she saw In it. with
out stirring, both their faces. and she
saw the girl smile at her husband and
she saw him smile back at her. She
understood everything but she never
stirred, and she never said anything to
him. no, nor to the maid, sir.
This was her room, sir. In that lit
tie closet Rosette had her bed. to be
ready II she called her. But one morn
Ing my lady's bell rang furiously, and
the maid who answered 1t was told to
do my lady's hair, for Rosette had gone
back to her native country.
"All the time she was doing 1t the
girl thought she heard faint, moan
ing sound, and was frightened, and
went back to the rest pale and trem.
bling, and before night 1t was well
known In the house that that little clos
ct there was not only locked, but nail
ed up.
| "After that my Lord seemed to take
to his wild ways again In a measure
and drank a great deal, and my Lady
lived much alone. There never were
any children; but they both lived to be
old indeed, and at last my Lady died in
this room and was buried In the church
yonder.
my Lord was as old as she by that
time, but as soon as the funeral was
over he went into my Lady's room and
stood a long while before the locked
and nailed close. door.
"Then he said to himself: I cannot
die until know and ordered It to be
opened. There were hundreds Of nails
In 1t; but they were all out at last, and
the lock was forced, and my Lord
arose and tottered into the closet.
ut wasn't much they found, only .
few bones and an ornament or two, but