The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-01-06

lantern full on, my chum doing
likewise, and there was the ghost
of the servant girl returning to the
cellar. l commanded it to halt.
aud as it did not obey but seemed
to quicken it's steps. l opened fire
upon it, my ohum doing likewise,
but it did not seem to stop it; then
it disappeared and the door swung
too We rushed to the door, un-
bolted and unlocked it. but could
find nothing only places where our
bullets had splintered the wood
work. and that was all. We gave
it up till the next day, as | had
seen something that night that
had started me guessing, and /
vented to get out to see if my
chum had noticed it too.
CHAPTER III.
The next morning found us in
the gnise of couple of junk gath
erers on the creek bank just at the
rear of "old Skagg's house max
ing shy examination of the foun-
dation which rose / should guess
to at least forty five feet. What
drew our attention was the old
doors where they had used for pass
ing the ice through in bygone
days. but now were securely bat
tened up with heavy planking so
we moved away and soon appeared
as couple of would-be tenants to
look over the house We were soon
inside and then l made for that
cellar door again. 1t was not long
before / found out how the ghost
came and went through looked and
bolted door. 1t was as l had sus-
pected, that is, the panels had been
out away to move with the door SO
that it could be opened from the
cellar side, in reality it was door
within door so that was clue No
/. Now came the search for a trap
door in the cellar which / knew
must exist, but search as we would
we,could not find one. 1t was then
that we concluded to wait until
night. We left the house and laid
plans to capture that ghost. My
ohum wanted to give up; he said if
bullets went drought it how did 1
to capture it las i would un-
grasp a shade. That made
me get on my mettle for my repu-
tation as detective was at stake.
1 told him 1 would have that ghost
that night or leave that
section forever; with that we ar
rived at headquarters where we
found the Chief in bad humor
over some business. When I un,
folded my plan to him of captur-
ing the ghost he got mad and said
be did not want anymore ghost in
his soup. 1 soon put him at ease
when / told him that 1 did not
want him but half dozen men who
were not afraid to fight if it be-
came necessary to do SO. With that
he said to take my pick of the men.
got Shorty Burns, Tim Rouke,
Joe Blair and Gus Shafer the pick
of the force of a hundred men who
were not afraid of ghosts; my ohum
and l made the half dozen. 1 knew
that / would have a hard fight be-
cause / had suspicion that there
were more back of that ::ghost, and
that the ghost was for effect only.
1 did not confide my suspicion to
no one then, if / failed 1 would not
be laughed at. Then towards night
we made our way to the haunted
house. It was a fine night for US,
raining and foggy; in twenty min
utes We were all on the inside of
the house tho roundsman had been
instructed to keep on the alert. We
went to the cellar, / posted the
four regulars in the kitchen, my
chum and 1 took the cellar and
there we waited for the ghost. i
felt my watch and found it lacked
but few minutes to 8 O'Clock. Then
/ felt my revolvers were in good
working order; then the clock com
menced to strike the hour of 6; on
the second stroke 1 felt foot falls
again and then came surprise. / |
saw fash of light and saw sec
ton rise up. then came the ghost.
1 let it climb the steps 10 the kitch
en- with myself in it's wake To the
kitchen l grappled with her ghost
ship. 1 soon found that 1 had met
my match as far as muscle was con
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