The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-04

friends We're ever admitted to the house.
Eventually a rumor was circulated that
the mousse was haunted. It was ehI1r7ned
by the villagers. Reckoned as a DaIatfaI
nome nifty years ago the house went to
rum. Inc paint was worn off by the
storms OF many years, and the fences
went to ruin for want Of care.
Inc gardens which bloomed so beauti-
fully In former years became choiled
VAIN weeds. The trees died, and the
or haunted spot
suddenly there came change which
put the village in fever Of curiosity.
IN some manner word came from the
old house that DR.. Crandail was dead
Face Unseen by Undertakes.
Here was a chance at last, the vii
1agers thought. to see Mrs. Crandan.
But they We're deceived The minister
ana the undertaken, the only ones to en-
Ter Ter the house, did not catch a glimpse Of
her features.
When she came forth to her closed
carriage to accompany the booy of the
man she had loved to the cemetery she
was SO heavily yelled that nobody could
see her face.
She went to the grave, knelt and pray-
ed, and returned to her home 20 resume
long
A brother brought the articles she
needed and left them at her door as a
stranger might have done
Several old ladies who had known her
n her school days-her companions and
IIrlends-resolved to visit her ana offer
her consolation.
They. met one day and proceeded to
the old house. AS they passed through
the gate they saw the form of an aged
woman through the shutters walking
rapidly into another room. They rang
the bell. but got no reply The door
was locked.
Several times after this excuses were
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swered the doorbell.
The house was so dark within that
llghts We're necessary during the entire
day.
Goes Out Once in Forty Years.
1t may have been that her lifetime Of
loneliness finally palled upon her, or that
her longing for fresh air and sunshine at
last became too great for her resolution.
At any rate, two years ago those living
near the Crandau home saw a woman
walking down the lane of pine trees near
the house.
The figure was clothed in deep black
and wore mourning veil. 1t was Mrs
Crandall. The occurrence was so un-
Usual that all the neighbors near by
gathered along the fence to watch and
gossip.
Perceiving this. Mrs CrandalI walked
quickly to her home Once or twice aft
er that she walked along the solitary
lane but only for few moments at a
time.
Some time ago she fell and broke her
shoulder and a doctor was called, but the
neighbors were not admitted.
Last week Mrs. Crandall died. Then
the neighbors came to the empty house
where she lay in her coffin and gazed
at the face they had not seen for forty
years.
A few of them had known her as a
child, as a school girl and as a bride
Yet here was a withered old woman with
the weight of fourScore years showing
in her wrinkled visage-a woman who
had hidden her face and her sorrow from
the world for half a lifetime.
After her funeral her brother searched
the house. The dresses she had worn
when girl were found carefully Gai1
away. In her bedroom, wrapped in
little boxes, were found $4,000 in notes
and $4,000 in gold.
Now the house is to be sold, and the
place which was haunted by the miseries
of a lifetime is to be torn down and a
new residence erected on the site