Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-07

about the case?" she asked, with a
 lawyer.like eye upon Mrs Morningstar
 I'm awfully stuck on psychic phe-
 nomena."
 q don't know right what you mean, "
 Mrs Morningstar hesitated. "Is it that
 you want to know what it makes in
 the haunted rOom?
 "Yes. What has been seen there and
 by whom? And what is the story of
 the room? Usually there's romantic
 legend attached to place believed to
 be haunted"
 Mrs. Morningstar was usually gar
 rulous enough and liked nothing bet
 ter than to gossip of her own and her
 neighbors' affairs to an interested lis
 tener. But she did not seem to greet
 these questions with her usual readi- ness.
 Tt don't come easy to me to tell about what happened there, fur all I'm used to it fur some twenty years now. If Eunice wasn't workin' out with pop and Abe this after in the fields over I'd change the subjec'," she said, using the phrase with a self conscious air of employing elegant language, fur us We don't never talk anything before her about what hap pened upstairs there; it's near twenty one years back already. Eunice she was just little over a year old"
 She sat down to tell her story, and Georgiana and Daisy returned to the settee, the latter with her notebook open on her lap.
 "We were keepin' hotel here and we had a-many corners and goers. Here one day a couple come. q man and his missus and their baby a year and a half old. They was tony people-that l must give 'cm-and they had money q plenty. They saycd they'd stay while. bein' as they liked my cOokin'. though to he sure they didn't eat much. neither one of 'em The missus was always wonderful pale and she never could fetch a smile. She was always settin' and thinkin.' starin' in front of herself and not nOticin' no person nor nothin'. She didn't seem to have no heart fur that baby of hern.
 ''She wouldn't mind. still. that 1t was settin' on her lap and she'd near leave 1t slip Off. Him and her often had words up fin their rooms. They rented two rooms off of us and they furnished 'em grand with such a bookcase and wTitin' desk and a bedroom suit. Me and pop us we used 10 listen outside fin the hali still We couldn't hear what they sayed much, but him he'd scold fin a low voice. and her she'd cry. faintlike sO's no one would hear. The mister he used to gO in town ire quent. if not oftencr. and used to tell pop still. You mind if some day he don't come back no more. I kin see 1t at him how he's tired of her yet. Yes. hell % of and leave her with that child to keep. now you see Oncet if he don't I sayed to pop"
 ''The child was Eunice. I suppOseY'
 Tn his interest in her narrative. not merely for itself. but for any light It might throw upon Eunice. Kinrnss for rus to be Pete and leaned forward across the table. regarding Mrs. Morn lngstar with a thoughtful frown. The solnd of his own vOice brought him back to himself. and he again glanced utth apprehension at the girls. But tbey. too. were so interested in the stO- D that even the fact of the farm lantiis iiling in the kitchen while his srlpl0yer and Eunice worked In the ;eisls escaped their nOtioe-
 -sYe<. it was our Eunice." Mrs. Morn l ncSfar answered. hut that don't cone 2 b yef. I mustn't get ahead of my sto- V. Oacst when I could hear they was craTpia' peeped in the keyhole-EOt . hat l wanted to be inqui<itire. but . ,otlT Ikes to know. too. what's goin' . z h their own hotel Wen. that there rouzn could have easy got a divorce heap if she's Os just bTa1z up s01e srzrks where ke uzde-- 1 -T5st rensrksY- Inquired Kfnross ~Whv.- she exclzized- ~be run at CT with a rzz0r
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