Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-11

My dear sir, assure you, the house II haunted badly haunted dlabollcall, haunted. and of this there can be no req heard. ! have seen said Horace Aiger laughing fiereelg. as If he wanted to plcl quarrel with me. and pulling his magnii. sonabie doubt Expertus ioqucr, | hays cent innstaehe.
 We'll l replied. in courteous but un- convinced tones, you are a soldier and have been under fire and recognize no sucl vulgar feeling as fear. and you are a bii of scientist But rats. yoa kHow -
 Jack. II you wish to break the friend. sais o1 yedrr. and to funsa ssrluus fisA oi i'eiag kaoesed down, you are going the tig4t ~sy to work. Do you nlean to insals lay intelligence, and doubt the evidence of my ssnse, by suggesting an explanation that Is neither adequate nor truer
 Well, tken, cats, 1 rashly hazarded.
 Now, my good friend. l warn You. will not be ausMerabie for my actions. If you persist in such outrageous scepticlsm.
 ,but you forget, Horace, l quietly Vt,- iected. while l carefully placed sub stantial oak table between myself and hiiu,
 you used to express the utmost contempt for ghosts. and denounced them as the sub tectlse phenomena of diseased niluas- And it is certainly scientific. to say the least, 10 press the occult world into your service before yca have exhausted ali possible sources and resources of reason. Bats VIII account'--
 That will do.T he cried angrffy. shaking his hnEd at me. while his fingers condensed into the epigfammatic argument caliSd a nst
 And owls" added. disregardins hls violent demeanor, and lodging behind my You are trying my patience sorely." he 'netnrted in tones that should have blasted me into nothing
 And draughts,' l went on, my courage rising with the occasion. ''are very ghost iy."
 Jack Parsons. beware,' he exclaimed.
 My fighting weight is eleven stone. and sanity or my courage. my muscle is beyond
 And there Is room. in house like
 Now. just look here. Jack he burst out, trying in vain to speak calmly. Can talk French (zocd classical French, mind youl,. and say 'sois mon frerc ou ;e to ..whyy. of scurse not whoever pretsadsd
 FAh." continued Horace. hammering the proof hsme with his usual rough insist. sds oSi. or ad drsuSht t would peli ie dapie est I ben, Nise le bon diabie. l ask you as barrister. of some repute and experience
 Tt sounds very mysterious and dread full" l replied, but in these days of the Psychicai Research Society ghosts are get
 q communicated with the society. and an imposing don came down armed with all the latest instruments and interrogations of modern Inquiry, and drove me nearly wild with his interminablc questions. In the most guarded way he seemed anxious to ascertain whether there was any mad ness in Ey famiiy--it l had suffered from or haliucinaticns. Plainly he thought me q fool, aud did not believe my story.
 And was he able to throw any light on the Tddie."
 we sat up rather late. and then hc went to bed smiling, ard triumphant. But about two o'clock he broko into my room, pale and penitent,. declaring there really Thing spoke French, which he did not un- derstand. he would hand over the problem to q French scholar"
 imagined l said. And do not profess to be a hero q scientist or philosopher. but I am quite sure that have no faith fectiy willing to occupy the haunted room. Give me n free hand, and that Is all re- guire-- no revolver and no brandy" gor i cannot get q servant 10 Syof in6fc f1hn- week. and the house Is getting such bad name that IL will soon becsme uninhabitabie. l know you have cool head ana iron nerves, and how you managed to control that homicidal iunatic with whom you travelled by rail alone, l never could comp,chend- That hour must have been awful.'
 My dear Horace, I assure you we had rather . pleasant time together, when l had shown him the absrrdity of his pas his vanity and other weak points, which soon discovered"
 T should have jumped out of the win dow"
 q don't believe it. You would have GOV cred yourself with glory by doing some desperate thing, which a man with my physique could not dream of. But, by the way. who was the last tenant of this placer
 An old bachelor. q naturalist. l fancy, who had lived abroad for years and had only men servants He would not have a woman about him Monkeys ranged all i over the house at their own sweet will. and snakes harmless ones. I suppose) dropped on the unsuspectfng visitor from cereain poles and every point of vantage. They say he knew the language of monkeys. and preferred their habits and conversation to those of human beings One or two al