The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-07-21
A BED OF MYSTERY

rs the place really haunladff !
asked Hrafr 81 Villagers. I NHa
apendlng mas vacation ln a delight
fully rural little town hidden away
in the pine forests OF North Caro-
lima
Hrhefa be them a-llein' as has
.hfen fhf Ehnaia Of the odd man aud
hin pretty bride They Walk arm
IA arm. ~ II theF Nus towers hHaln.
Tho EhuHi IT the young man never
comes atWeeu 'cm as he did "a lie.
replied one af thueo whom had
questioned 'oia Donald ufean can
tell yau sll about a. be continued.
- ! sought aul Donald
Donald was the Wafehmaa ~ the
haunted ruin. the owners newer
eatas near a. uanaid lived alone la
a smHli cabin aud readily told me
what hin old grandfather had told
him.
Twenty years before the fvyein-
ton Martin nrsNer. an old aud
eaalthY EnKilshmhn. settling in
Narlh Carolina buit big stone
hnure on bluff overlooking cape
Fear tlYer Among the many SER
wants WAS Alexander Green. grand
father u the narrator 81 ihf STORY,
who WAS made ufofassf brewer
raid a visit a. England. aHd when
he returned be brought with him "a
beautiful Yuuna bride.
iirewer asain sailed away to Ems
land on important business. he said.
and before the ship waz out 81 slight
Green discovered thst The youaa
wife. who had been lefl 40 his care.
saa not alofs "a the bis house AZ
silently and mynfefiousiT hH q shad-
CIV ~ eYil stranger had come aua
taken up hiH abode there lie Vas
1auna and HANDSOME.
one day Green bssrd yoices ln the
apartments of hia Young mistress A
dnaF opened and the stranger came
cat and aisa ppeared in smother
fstoua. lestihe ola 0fasn shocked
and srese hiess fiut aa hia duty de-
Inaufed. iatHf hs anhsd his master =
yauns wife ehn tha stranger Nas
hhs bscams strangely uiubarrasa p
- and answered I cannot tell
fau nos. bat thefs ia no wrong Ia
hts pfrssneu here"
The neat uAii 70 England carried
10 MARTIN urswrf a letter nom
afssH failing % the strangers pres
rues. Three maulhH later HruWst
arrived hsmr Green Noticed thr
fir~ ~ jealousy aua hafs thar burned
a. hss masters sEes Esd ffHfublaf
faf she safety 81 ihs Yaans Nifs
fifswef brought pifh hlm many
rfHsenfs fet his stf~. huinuE them
sifanE. looking. Old fashioned
e~istsaa. whlrh be said hza been
TIE property % aits ~ hts Nofman
ancestors u waa carved wIih nd.
saus dragon heads
on rm afraid % 81 sri.d the
yuana npman
All rixht be saii. -ws uili SIT
q 40 ~ the little square roam IN
ths weat ~tha AZ he fnruss away
ufssH head him muitsf she IL
hiding hiin 81 that fnaff
The aaY aftsf tas bed VS. piaesi
in ths room a slave rho bad gaoe
here faf sanss purpose rushsa cat
eiih eFY - fear
strs Brewer look u terror an
hsf face fan towards ths fnasa.
elus.iy followed b hef husband ans
ufprn. Thar arrived almost stmul /.
tauseasig on the xrsp safns bed ~
ifsaan head. sfonp tsat. iHy the
haafsafns teanH stranger
NJ bfothsr ny bfnthrf. sgaak.
- speak, efssa Nts Dresser. ana
sta ihfea hrf Hfnls areuaa -
asgk sha suhbsa ea1VaasiFriF
Examination showed that = small
fselufea ssssef I'D been plunged
hnte tbs EOS ~ ths f8uns man >
.sssi antsftnE ma brain. Mfa urrw
- .ufa4uts1 she uffiasfs thsi fHs
n sftsesa tnsn was hes 1fuihsf. via
slaa hean raFHresiea fe la1ss Epss
faa1 bseausv BE- aaN Aeruasl % =