The daily Alaskan., 1910-10-21
Ghosts Around
 By M QUAD Copyright. 1910 by Associated Lit
 erary Press.
By M QUAD


 the outskirts of Taylorsyille for a dozen years, attracting no attention. Then some villager saw a ghost. Peter asked the full particulars and was theneeforth considered believer in ghosts.
 | Next he inherited Sl6OOO; then his neighbors began to pay him marked attention.
 Miss Nancy Beebe, an old maid of nearly forty, had never married be cause she was hOmely and had no money. Miss Prudence Higgins was in the same fix. The widow Tender son could marry again if she had a couple of thousand; so could the wid- ow Drew. Mrs. John White was a married woman, but while her husband was a carpenter she had aristocratic tastes and couldn't carry them out for the want of money,
 These i've women not only heard that old Peter believed in ghosts, bur each one arranged her program to l have a ghost pay him a midnight visit, He hadn't got his money yet when one night at the most solemn hour and while he was sleeping with his win dow open a scratching on the casing awoke him to ask what was wanted It was the first night he had ever beer disturbed
 Peter" said a hollow voice that started the sweat on him, Nancy Bebee Is very unhappy%
 "Is that sO?" he replied,
 'Yes, and it rests with you to make her happy. 1 am the ghost of hel dead mother. I charge you to give heI the sum of 5000 as soon as you get your money. She will marry, and she win bless you. Fail not, Peter-fal uot-lest the smallpox comes to you!"
 She shall have it," replied Peter as he looked out of the window and saw an object in white gliding away On the next night he was wide awake, | but lying on his bed, when second ! ghost paid him a visit He had tgur- . cd that there was more than one ghost in the world and that there might be another caller. He heard a soft rusuing, a cold breeze blew in at the window, and scary voice an nounced;
 Peter Baines, do good with your money or you will be found dead | Prudence Higgins Is sud, sad girl She may commit suicide. If she does you will be to blame for it. You can save her life and make her happy by giying her S2,OOO. Do 1t, Peter, and live JO be a hundred years old"
 Yes, I'll do it. want to live to be hundred What ghost are you"
 Her grandmother's,"
 And another white object hoated over the grass and through a gap in the fence and was swallowed up in the gloom of night. Some men would have gone around telling what they had seen, but old Peter kept still tongue and prepared himself for other visits from other ghosts. Where there were two there must be three, the same as crows. He reasoned correct |ly. On the third night a third ghost appeared. She was being waited for, and old Peter was not sO badly scared when voice reached his ear, saying:
 Peter grim death Is all around you! ! It dies on wings and stalks on legs, It looks for a victim It stands at yon gate and stares at your house"
 But tell it to pass on,' replied ! Peter ''I want to live to be hun dred years old
 Then do as l tell you. You know the widow Drew Make her happy, l Give her a chance. When you get your money give her S1,OOO. It is It. tle 10 you, but much to her" wouldn't a hundred doT asked old | Peter as he began to feel stingy,
 shall beckon to death to come and enter this window?' menaced the ghost,
 No, no, no! The widder shall have her thousand. l didn't know but q hundred would do, but see it won't, ] Whose ghost are youY
 That of a gypsy woman who was |, murdered. Beware of ny anger. Do not play me false. go-I go-I goP
 And she "goed." She seemed to get hung for a moment in the gap, and the old man thought he heard the ripping of cloth, but she got clear and disap- peared before he was sure. He didn't want any more ghosts in his. He had seen three and promised 5000 out of his legacy. The pace was too hot, Next night he shut and nailed down the window, but it was in vain. The fourth ghost came and announced that he must provide for the widow Hen derson or prepare to be haunted all the rest of his life by evil spirits. He hung or for few minutes, but the sighs and groans and scratchings on the glass were too much for him. The widow Henderson was to receive S1,5OC in cash,
 On the next night old Peter took some bedding and lay down under the currant bushes, where no fifth ghost could find him He kept wide awake and alert. At midnight he saw ghost ! M s ,r.r,sr Gha yltdad fnr his he'd,