Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-12

WAS always the lookout for curious or
remarkable things; indeed at that time Of
IASI my life, may be said to have been a dill
NMI n gent student Of the newspapers. Conse-
quenty. when old Anthony Gayfeld died at
I6ElM&1V Roeminster, and the curious circumstances
k5oH9Al attaching to his life and to his death
chronicled, ! OF the first to be in
terested. possibility that that strange house in
which he had lived and died might have fascinating in
morbid illustrated papers. and
determined down Roeminster and get pho
tographs IL possible did not know then what curious
happenings follow hard upon resolve.
Briefly the chroniced the fact Of the death
Of certain Anthony Gayfed, Of Stone House. Roemin-
ser Incidentally they that his death, in all
probability, would close old that had caused
the house to be pointed out to visitors The old romance
this: That years before, the beloved wife of this
Anthony Gayhed had died suddenly in ner chair In her
room: broken hearted had caused the house
stopped, from that moment, just her
life had stopped that more than twenty years after her
clocks still pointed to the hour at which she
had diedthe remained the same covered in dust
and cobwebs, and long since fallen into decay The man
himself, It said, had been many and many a
time walking about the grounds which surrounded the
house clad in the garments he had worn fatal
day, than of years before Now II happened
that he in his had died and had to meet the
he had loved; and the house to be under
ban longer.
MY friend Enoch voyce cordially sugges-
should down to Roeminster; he expressed
wish accompany and it is scarcely necessary to
add I eagerly embraced his offer
death, my dear Rattenbury" he said in his
whimsical way such ordinary commonplace things
generally speaking. that something out
is well to it, apart from business
In this world of small affections, like to think
Of who sewers his connection with the world the
that that who all his world has passed
out Of it, Let then and worship at the shrine Of
Anthony Gaydelds love"
We went Roemnster accordingly. It is a delight
full sleepy old cathedral town with quaint old houses and
comfortable old inns Stone House stands just outside the
and is surrounded by gardens which, under
management would be beautiful when them they
were neglected wilderness. asked Enoch II he knew
to whom the property belonged Enoch had way
Of picking scraps Of information and he answered me
readily enough.
ct all goes a brother of the dead man-and be-
eve it is valuable property tooplenty of money in safe
securities dead had a who is cut off with
the proverbial shilling"
what-the son Of the woman he loved left out of
the wll?" asked in establishment
Yes replied Enoch, scratching his chin thoughtfully
would that dead friend had soft
in his heart only and that for his wife The dis
appointed way-ran contrary his desires
paid penalty The brother takes everything
destined to that brotner Coming
the house-a square stone building, with possible
pretensions to architectural beautywe and stated
errand. After little delay ushered into a
barely furnished little at side of the hail. and
ourselves in the of of the sleekest
looking men have ever met And this sleek looking in
divdual the fortunate brother-Jacob Gayheld.
We had expected to encounter opposition, and
nad looked to Enoch Voyce to plead cause usual
for found that there opposition to be
met; that Jacob Gayhed, while exhibiting chastened
sorrow for the death of his brother yet certain
pride that story connected with the house, and
only willing to allow to take photographs. He
stipulated however, with little modest cough that his
should be mentioned freely when the photographs
reproduced.
He accompanied us himself over the place, and 1 ar
say that the general effect upon both
saddening In the How could have lived
in such a house passed comprehension-cobweb and
dirt and dust everywhere the plaster had fallen from
the ceiling, and the paper hung rotng from the walls
Whatever broken during that desoate time
remained broken-a witness to the miserable perversitN
OF one man Perhaps I should say that that man hat
been buried beside the ne had loved tive
days before arrival
Our looking proved garrulou.. He showed
everything and took everywhere about the hous
and grounds Above all, he into the il
which the woman had died. and in which Anthony Gay
field had passed remainder of his life That room
a little comfortable than the others-n that
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