The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09

small place and humble, though visitors
may get tea served in a neat and clean
parlor. The inn is licensed to Joseph
Exon. 1t is also the smoking divan OF
The parish of Challacombe. The room is
paved with stone, and furnished with Il
long wooden table and benches, a high
backed wooden settee TO pull before the
fire in cold weather, and a broad, hos
pitable fireplace.
The room was about half full at nine
o'clock this Saturday evening. when the
latch was lifted, and an unknown per-
son-a stranger-stood in the door, look
ing about the room. He looked about
the room as one who remembers it. But
his face was scared, and his eyes seemed
as if they saw nothing. Mrs. Exon, at
sight of him, spoke up:
Now, my man." she said, what do
you want? We don't encourage tramps
here. You must go as far as Bovey to
get a bed tonight"
Il am not a tramp" he replied,
hoarsely. Il have got money. See."
He pulled out a handful of silver. "Let
me come in"
He shut the door and sat down at the
lowest end of the table, taking off his
hat and shaking his long hair off his
forehead. Six years ago all the men Ia
the room would have risen out Of respect
to the owner of Berry Down. Now not
a soul remembered him.
His eyes were full of trouble, and with
4 kind of trouble which the good woman
had never seen before. Not pain of body
or grief, but yet trouble. He dropped
his head upon his chest and began to
murmur aloud as if no one was in the
place but himself.
Not dead. he is not dead! How can
that be? how can that be-"
Then he fixed his eyes upon the land
lady's and gazed upon her as if she
could read in them what allied him. Be
wilderment and amazement which beat
Upon his soul, as the old poet said, as Il
mailman beats upon a drum-this was
the trouble which caused his eyes TO
have that terrifying glare and his limbs
to shake n tremble. Mrs. Exon watch
ed him, thinking he must have q fit of
ague.
The poor man is ill.," she said. Here,
my man, drink this" She gave him half
a tumblerful of cordial, which he poured
down.
The dose had the effect of composing
him a little. His legs ceased trembling,
though his hands shook.
Yes" he said, 81 am i'll. l was took
sudden just now. l am better now.
Where may you have come from?"
asked one Of the men.
'Pve come from Southampton, where
| was put ashore. I've come all The way
from Australia"
and where might you be going ncxt:'
III tell you that, my friend, as soon
as l know" Ragged and rough be look
ed. he spoke, somehow, as if he belong
ed to something better than would have
been judged by his appearance. "If you
had asked me this morning. I shoulr
have told you that l was going 10 Boz
vey; now, l don't know"
Mrs. Exon still looked at him with
curiosity. which comes OF Il half uneasy
recollection.
"Old Dan Leighan, now" he went on:
"can any one give me news of him Il
mean Old Dan; him as had Gratnor first
and Foxworthy afterward, and then got
Berry Down, being a crafty old fox. Is
he still alive? Somebody told me he
was dead"
Surely replied Mrs. Exon; she is
alive and hearty, except for his legs,
poor man.
"Oh, he's alive-alive and hea :ty? I
thought, perhaps-somebody told me
that he died-I forgot how-six years
ago come October it was. That's what
thoy told mo. civ WOO 70 oop,a notnhor - .
HE had an accident just about that
time-six years ago. Perhaps that is
what you are thinking Of"
How" he asked. without taking any
notice of this reply, 'can a live man
have a ghost? How can a live man
send his Owl ghost to travel all round
the world? Won't he want his own
ghost for himself sometimes?"
Hes got n touch of fever" said rhe
landlady, "and it has gone to his head.
You had getter go home, my man. and
lie down, if you have got a bed any
where"
Il want to know this" he repeated,
earnestly; Ibid anybody ever near of a
living man sending his ghost OF. on
errands, to keep people awake and
threaten things? 1t can't be; It isn't in
pature."
Nobody could explain this fact, which
was new to all.
How did he do it, hem" he asked,
iInpatiently, banging the table with his
fist; tell me that? How did he do it,"
Then he pulled himself together and be-
came natural again. about his legs,
now What's the matter with Dan
Leighan's legs?"
why, after his accident they began
to fail him." said Mrs. Exon, and now
he's paralyzed, and never leaves hic
room unless he's wheeled ont of a fire
morning. But hearty in appetite, and as
for his hanG IN 10 n G claar 40 ayorv