Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1902-07-25


looked over It, that l had not done It
Justice, eloquent az had been in lis
praise.
We were wandering through it's walks
and was asking thousand questions
that kept him busy In answering when
suddenly he stopped a moment and
said, Are you never afraid Of this
placer
!: mo, jamie, darling. Why should l
be?" asked.
you come often here alone after
night, Lizzie. Are you not startled
sometimes?"
mo. Why do you ask?'' replied
"Oh, nothing. Only do you zee any,
thing there peculiar in appearance?'
he asked, pointing to a spot where a
tall marble tablet cleaned In the moon
light.
Nothing, jamie. but the slab Of mar
Let's 60 up there for a mopnent," he
then said, and We turned toward the
c9pok-~
9 Upan reaching Il say nothing, but
T eoefd - that he do see something
that s4gpsttosd and soanewh4t startled
him. While standing there lie moved
~ 11aa vskt1g stick ID ana fro and
afte( 4 te1 minutes eeid: That WIN
Do Nowtlst:s> return b he hohae, md
III tna Tou Why aak thoee Queattpns."
upuh raehing tn pidksa Ne rat
down upn uae top step and looked
o~eR 70 To graveyard He sat stu 1oe
lev minutes and then said:
VEL. Lizzie, have OFTEN hoard and
have reed Of what saw tonight. Tit
ns~er Shopom 10 zee 1t myself, for /
neRer credited II. At that grave where
We s::eQlu.d saw q blue fame rise
from The ground and gradually take
the :bnanao form. OF. rather. inside Of
the cio@d of blue fame Aeaw human
shape. and when we went up to 1t l
could distinctly zee the contour Of the
whole figure, though I could not dis
Germ features. 1t IL startling, but It is
not supernatural. II did not know
that you were brave little girl and
not sftigbtened b. shadows, I'D. not: tel.
you this, for, l cannot tell. sou the cause
more than this: Wherever. there are
dece Xtnee7 human bodies there is a gas
generated that rises aud assumes the
human form, though 1ndigtinctly and
not to be seen by every one. Now,
there In the cemetery see three Of
those pillars ot blue fame and no
doubt would Gee more If all parts of
the place were visible from here"
I did not doubt JAMES seriousness
in what he said, and, though It puzzled
me, It did not scare me. for he told me
It could be accounted for by men Of
science, and my faith In him was too
unswezving for me to doubt for q mo-
ment anything I saw him convinced
OF, and It did not hinder me from tax
ing many q long walk in the lovely
spot or from again spending many an
hour there In pleasant reverie and cas-
tie building in Spain.
During our residence there two other
persons told me they saw the same
thing, one young cousin, a delicate,
gentle girl. too gentle and conscientious
to eQuivocate and too accustomed to
seeing such things to be frightened at
them. The other was a man in his
prime, Judge and statesman Of
note, who saw It on two or three ilif-
ferent occasions while staying at our
house on visits. The first time he was
standing at his bedroom window, just
after his visit, and did not know that
there was a burial place 60 close to the
house. After that he saw it from the
piazza and in the cemetery after dusk.
Here I give you my unvarnished tale.
l wish l could give You the scientific
why and wherefore. This cannot do,
though, and you must rest content in
your ignorance or find them out for
yourself. Il.