Putnam patriot., 1911-03-10

what could to show my courage by sleeping in the haunted roonA Miss Rutledge begged me not to try it since the last person who did was thrown into fever which. being followed by other symptoms. finally carried him of.
 was reSolute, because in the first place believed haunted chambers to be a myth. and iR the second if anything marvellous did occur it would give me the desired opportunity to show my pluck The evening be fore Kirkwood was moved 1 sent word to the general that If could be spared from headquarters I would stay all night at the plantation with Eirkwood. He sent back an order for me to re- main.
 pledged Miss Rutledge to say noth- ing about my intention to sleep in the haunted chamber. hoping in this way to head od any one who might be dis posed te play ghost. She prepared the room herself for my occupancy. keep ing watch that no one should see her doing 50. ] waited till a late hour be fore going To bed. when not a person besides myself and Miss Rutledge. ex- eept in the invalid's chamber. was stirring Then 1 went to the room l had occupied whenever l had remain ed for the night and. removing my boots. stole in the dark to the haunted chamber
 That my presence there might not be betrayed | took of my clothes in the dark. Feeling sure that the parts of ghosts are always played by persons in the flesh and that nn one on this side of tbe dead line knew that the room was occupied. | went 10 sleep within reasonable time
 awoke 1rtth a start. At the other end of the room l saw a Climmerinr such as appears in the e9st at the first faint dawn l watched il and soon saw rhal if was increasing both spreading and growing in intensity It grew i'll that end of the chamber WIS illumieated. or. rather, fl seemed thot there was no end 70 the chamber, but misty. i'll defined space Then saw in this space the bed in which l lay and asleep in il a figure. A door opened and Il man dressed in the eos tune in vogue at the end of the eight eenth century stole stealthily toward the bed Reaching ii. quick as a flash he buried knife in the sleeper's bos om Then all was dark again.
 felt all the horror one experiences in seeing q murder in cold blood For more than a year l had seen men killed continually. sometimes thousands at time. but that was under the eX- hilaration of battle The vision. or whatever it was. left me all of trem be. There being no further use for concealment. I lighted a candle that stood on small table beside my bed. I would have given half my fortune I was rich-te leave that bedroom, but my love for Lillian Rutledge was greater than my fear I had come there te show her my pluck. and I did not propose te show the white feath- CT. Yet I would have infinitely pre- ferred to lead forlorn hope against battery of a hundred guns.
 had not long to wait for dawn. and when through a window came it's first beams I blew out my candle and with in half an hour had so far recovered from my sfisagreeable sensations as to fall asleep.
 Shortly before 9 o'clock went down 10 breakfast. feeling at liberty to play The hero. sis e no one had seen me dur ing the night shaking like a leaf in the wind However. that's what we boys !id often during the war. If we tenn ,,.;l, we looked abeHt fo learn who had seen us Miss Ru;ledce's mother and other members of the family were present. se nothing was said about my experi- enee. assumed q careless deport mert. though | confess I had not yet recovered my nerves Finally l was alone with Miss Rntledge and she looked al me inquiringly. confessed that iohad seen A vision of murder
 And stayed in th~ room ?" she asked quickly.
 -Yes. Il only left it just before break fast
 I failed to add that it was the hard est pull on my courage | tad yet met with.
 did nrt see the Rntiedge plantation again unffl after the war. Then 1 went down Into Virginia and found II wreck I made inquiries for the family who had occupied II and found that that they lad gone north. but where | could not learn Everything in the south was in dire confusion. Every enc seemed Stasnned. and no one knew anything
 If was sevprsR years before found ,atllian Rutled@e: then I discovered her aqnong the clerks of the treasury de ,-artment at Washington She did not remain there long after l met her tCid her that she had won me instan taueously without my seeing her with her sweet. meodious voice
 It vvaS with that same voice that she gave ne an answer fe the most Im portant question of my fife She is now an old woman. but even in age ii retains something Of the tmbre of her girlhood
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