Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-12

Ing uncomfortable. ut wasn't SO
wonderful much. considerin' oil the
trouble we, had to take raisin' the
child and the trouble were havin'
now" she added vindictfvely, with
her runnin' after Jill Abe the way
she's dom, To be sure" she conced-
ed, 1--WE didn't raise her the way her
mother was raisin' her. l did
see a baby tended the way she done
a clean white dress every day-now
mind! Yes, indeed! oh, that baby
mustn't never get dirty when her
mother had her! She must be clean
all the time and get washed all over
every day, mind you, stead OF oncet
q week, like us country people does to
our babies. Then she practiced this
here hy-geen on it-she must scald the
milk to foomgate the germs, or what
ever, and wash her mouth and eyes
with borax water. You wouldn't be-
lieve %anybody'd be that DUNN to take
oil that there trouble, would you? But
that there's hy-geen. | hear lots OF
towners believes in this here hy-geen.
Well, after we found the dead corp In
there I wouldn't do 1t to sleep at the
hotel till after the funeral was. I
slep' to the neighbors'. The news OF
the crime got put out all over the
country, and we had a wonderful big
funeral. But not mourner," she
added In a shocked tone, mot q
Grape we'll! When there amt no Grape
wells it don't remind me Of q funeral,
amt not? Well, the preacher he had
q wonderful solemn sermont. There
was two or three sayed to me after
ward how they felt under his sernont,
and one sayed how she liked to hear a
solemn preachin' like hisn on q funeral
so that her heart gets affected.
"As a general I kin stands good bit.
I, don't soon go to bed sick, but that
there crime sent me to bed fur near q
week, with all the work layin'. Pop
he was SO much fur tellin' all about It
to Corners and goers, and 1t would
work me up SO to hear him come over
1t all that I used to wish we didn't
keep hotel SOS there wouldn't be no
corners and igoers to tell It to-"
She paused to take breath, but Kin.
ross was ready with a question to urge
her on.
"How do you know that It was not q
case Of suicide rather than murder|
"The coroner's jury" replied Mrs.
Morningstar, '.sayed she didn't .suo-
code herself, but was murdered in the
first degree"
lit is the murdered woman who
haunts the roomy' 81
II don't know she answered, turn
ing white again. II amt never slep'
there. Oncet, before WI quit hotelin'
and began farmin' this here place, we
slept a travelin' man in that there
room, and about the middle Of the
night he walked us all with runnin'
through the hall, screechin' he'd saw
q ghost. And after that we never put
no one in there no more. Their furnis
ture Ia all there yet too. The neighbors
tells us that near every night any per-
son passin', our place late kin see q
queer light In the winder Of that there
room. Our Abe een 1t oncet too
"Peter," Daisy turned eagerly to
Kinross, fare you husky enough to
sleep in that room? II you are you'll
tell us about the ghost, won't you, to-
morrow evening-if you meet herY
Saint you got afraid to sleep there
now. Doc-Pete-after what l tole you
YETI" Mrs. Morningstar asked incredu-
lousy.
ell tell you tomorrow morning." an
swered Kinross. Maybe I'll cut and
run, too, like the travelling MAI. You.
never can tell what you'll do when
you're up against a ghost"
SAY Mrs. M~orningstar suddenly
exclaimed, her eyes moving from one
to another Of her listeners with an
anxiety amounting to distress, look
at here. Yous. won't speak nOthin' to
Eunice, will yous, about this here2
Us we always KEEP 1t from her. It
would be ugly to tell her her pop muir
dered her MON in the first degree"
"And," thought Kinross, that her
father left a sum Of money for her
support"
"Doesn't she ever ask questions
about herself?' inquired Daisy. III I
were she 1t wouldn't take me long to
get aboard"
"There fur awhile she did, Mrs.
Morningstar said. "But US we put her
of with Just tellin' her her parents left
her here a waif."
"If the whole neighborhood knew of
1t I don't see how you've kept it from,
her." remarked Georgiana. Surely
some one would be apt to tell her"
.We never let her go much. We KEEP
her close at home, just SOS she
wouldn't hear nothin'. We thought 1t
would be so upsettin'."
ITO learn how she's been shaving for
her living which probably had been
paid for" thought Kinross.
81 don know what's made me speak
all this here to you," Mrs. Morning
star continued, with increasing anxiety
in her face and voice. II don't often
come over it. 1 don't like to. But l
was took back so with Doc's-Pete's-
astin' fur the dare to sleep In that
there room that the whole thing come
out before I knowed right | was telln'
it. And now mebbe yous will tell