The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-05-24

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Ills jbis' sad Mabel Blossom with terrible cool
ness. "kitue James, and Mabel Aluriel Murphy and
Jane Trelawuey. aud Adeline Thurston and arc GO
ing to the runed church on Halloween at midnight.
When get there we're going ask the spirits the
names of our future husbands"
gaSped hen picked up my Bible and pulled
an expression Of dsapproyal over my features, and
looked just much like Sister Irmngarde as could.
You know perfectly well, Mabel Blossom" | said,
coldly, that You cant do such thing It's against
the rules Besides. there's way Of getting ont at
midnight The doors all locked, and the FORTRESS
carries the keys
Mabel knew this bat the reader doesn't, so I have
to put it in here didn't really say that about the
keys to Mabel. l Just said she couldn't do it She
Mabel looked stubborn She thought she was look
ing firm. but have tell what the effect really
She made her lips into little straight streak across
her face, aud dragged her eyebrows over her
l wish | could do it. Then she said
Il told you it was wicked. That's where the wick
edncss in"
That's usually where Mabels wckedness comes in
breaking the rules She waited a minute; then she
said, IN tones
We'll are you coming or aren't you;'
! kept hestating. You can how terrifying
the idea was but you can't imagine all the horror of
it, for you don't know about that haunted ruin. 1t
little country church about mile from the
convent. and had been built and ages ago-as
much fifty years. think. 1t had been
Grated and used, for found that the ground
'unhaowed'; and there were all sorts OF thrilling
stories about it. We used to take girls there at
twilight the very first thing and tell the stories to
them, and watch their shudderings One legend
that lost souls had claimed the church and now held
service in ii. There little churchyard around
it. The windows gone the south wall had fallen,
and the old cellar had Become big, bottomless hole.
There cracked bell in the title seeple. and It
rang at night sometimes. in a high wind; then the
country folks said the devil was ringing it to call
his around him.
This was the place where Mabel Blossom expected
60 midnight and ask the spirits about my fu
ure husband The thought made by blood sing in
my ears, and the soles of my feet prioky-but |
Jf.,Jtv .fo ,trlxt -
over, and remembering the awful things had heard,
Mabel Blossom watching and smiling cool,
superior Pei smiles % finally she gGt up Tl. ,4u. ), 49,
fun without you; and you can write a story about
it if don't die"
That sounded like the wr-tle before the train starts.
You know how it makes you feel-that you've got TO
get on the train right away. ] got on That means
| yielded Then put our heads together and made
our plans will not repeat them here Sufice to
say as real writers put it, arranged everything.
When We came up against a problem Mabel Blossoms
mind could not solve, need tell whose mind did solve
it2 1t was mine Mabel asked me to tell Maudie Joyce
and get her to come with us did. She came There
are golden instants when Maudie forgets about her
soul and this OF them.
The night Of Halloween fell Don't you think that
sounds better than to say it came2 We went to bed
nine o'clock, as usual, We had to We got in with
our clothes and we were all drawing 7eep breaths
Of sleeping innocence when Sister Edna made her
final rounds just before the Great Silence Then the
convent lights everywhere went out and the darkness
got thicker and blacker and the sorrows of my past
d a,d ,, c,nc;enre gI1a,red IN ho tbonght IL rb.t
,e wa ao,n5 - IL H. ,1o,tse gna,Yins hoa IN
the floor ! could almost hear it.
idu - "d 'l.i teil anu ."e TiAy way c1ull Ii
teH "HoH Yen 0alHe "dS - i9leh uA GIs'dil IN
STRUCK can most aI"ays near II suIKe, put lns
mgnt tnought II never YOU'D / was sure Il woula
StTtNG I'VE or SIX Il II StIgok ay'nng asan, o"t a
ldst me ten strokes SOUNDED Slowly ar soehhS, ana
| got up and Crep out of the room like wrath
hvery girl at St. kathsrlnes mas room TO herse
bu the rooms are small ana close togetner' on ootn
sides OF !ong hal, and the two girls on the right
and lett OF me were dTeadiuIy inqWHqVe ana always
listening for sounds. Sometimes "hen woke at nlgnt
! made noises lust to puzzle them-upset c9air or
threw shoe at the waA-but you better beheVe
didn't tonight hardly dared to breathe. and I
believe It took me ten minutes to open my door and
get over the sill Id turn the door-knob little and
wait till the echoes died away, and then turn some
more
The hail was like long black tunnel with slip
rcry bottom but ! slid along it in my stocking feet
holding my shoes IN my hand I was afraid I'd step
IN pin, bit there weren't any-iancy Sister Har-