The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-02-06


lth On the programs sometimes
are Governor Fe asa'o't lne
c. French, w. E Ns'' Inc
anchester Ok; ~ % p,""a 1O,a sJ and
ouston Of Woodwaf .., = - .,.,'arl 60
fields of Stillwate' -, a.. -,
The programme uiuel ,le i 'oloii-
ws: od srou tr..,,,i,e
= IuesaTseahle Man was "a, rest.
$3.50 A. Ne one say something any
ilitary nythine, even about the
l0;O6?' the newcomer recommend
N % It's disagreeable enough ever FOR
a." He nodded towards the man
ho was reading the Senior Comic.
II beg to second that the Retired
.my Man said with unction
u vote the Traveller tells us a tale,
e Bank Clerk yentured
e beg TO second that said the
my Man
u don't mind if | do" the Traveller
Freed.
Passed unanimously
When came here from We.
here l had been ia some queerish
Ees, can tell YOU
c'Pass! pass!")
] went first thing to spend a week or
4. 10 with Dick Hudson Dick was one
my Oldest chums, but he was just a
uple OF months married, ami ] an
u fond of the company of a neg mar
I'D man and his wife
, This house was one of the bcst Oh its
ass--that is the worst l think Dick
id it was Elizabethan. Anyhow, you
uld lose yourself in corridors, and
iaircases, and passages leading no
here in particular And there was as
4 uch secOnd-hand-I mean ouS )f-date
furniture, moth-eaten tapestry and
5lsty armor as would have stocked a
oderate marine store. What fetched
most was the ancestors, or their
4 ctures. You must know. Dicks faith
began life on half-a-crown week
hd Dick himself hadn't even ar opin-
n as to who or what his grandfather
as But it didn't matter
| noticed one picture turned 10 thu
all, for all the world like bit ont Of
christmas story and Of course must
y i'm it round; not that wants 4 10 see
Nc blessed thing but it struck n e as
e right thing to do. At least it is
ways done in Chri itmas stori s. and
thought might as well act accord-
g to requlation. AS | turned the pic
re to - q light Dick, who was filling
Is pipe no the window, looked rou1G
hd shouted
Il cave that alone"
n He spoke too late wish he had
boken a second sooner The picture
as that OF very old woman win the
ce of mummy. a skin-liks arch
ent, shrunk cheeks, hooked nose,
outh fallen4n mohstache like man,
aoulders to her ears, and such ,yesl
(Omnes GO on! You're going
rong now
! put the picture back and found
udson standing beside me VITA face
white as a sheet
Il wish you hadn't done that, he
id in a sort of frozen up voice.
Same here, agreed
You might have known that p.cture
as not--er-on view. when You saw
turned that way
Il might And instead of turning il
at way you might have had it burn
or huns in the National Gallery.
There are reasons why it should re.
ain here Please don't move il again. %
Il will not. It's safe from me-
Hudson was not like himself at din
r. and / had not much appetite eth
Maud, that's Dicks wife, noticed
at we were both put out, and began
fook anxious.
When Hudson came to see me TO my
om he SAID innocently.
an 6iAh .pu ai' oNNh - ~ i't"iN
ggar old house-ghost stories
,unted hoom
That's my sort, answered, think
he was chatting me. Been ,iIougl
orse places than haunted houses.
Il knew that We are not quite set
% here yet, and this is the only room
at is ready"
l"And a very good room, too"
But the fact is, II is one OF the
unted; it is-er-the haunted rtom.
MY dear boy, said l. surely you
bow l can only sleep comfortah'y in a
lunted room. Honest lnjin!"
= | did not sleep long.
My bed was a genuine old io'u post
and the curtain arrangement
eated so far as we can now see for
.b.r.-f,4f,r, ~ the naet1nan. had