Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-22

day be the starting point of some in- tercstug experience This has not yet developed, but in order that l may be prepared for anything that may occur ! keep a blue silk umbrella constantly checked at the Parker House The presence Of the little brass check in my purse is constant reminder that Bos- ton may one day call me-"
 discussion of the Parker House umbrella followed. Cecilia and l join ilg and 1t proved SD fruitful 9 topic that it carried Us to our coffee
 Three suitors were announced little Hter and l slipped away without ex- cuSeS. while Miss Octayiu and Cecilia adjourned to the library
 The ghost, ! had sworn. should not badie me another night
 AS l crossed the second floor h1lI l passed tle Swedish maid walking foe ward Miss Ocuvia's room was somewhat annoyed to find 0u looking over my shoulder JO make sure or uar destination that she, too. had paused. her huud on Miss Ocuyiu's door. aud Was watching me with interest She vanished immediately but to throw her off tlc track | went to mv own room, closed the door uoisiIy and then came ont quickly and ran up to the third floor
 Bassford HoIlister's mysterious exit had fingered in my mind as the most curious incident Of thc eyeutful Friday night Having been bugled in my eI- fort to get hold of the architects plans, my thought now yas Co await in the upper part OF the house a rcpe- titiou of thu various phpuUmcua that had SD puzzled mc By the process of exclusion 1 had rlmuaba nearly py- cry plausible theory, but if the ghost manifested himself with any sort of periOdicity und thp hour of the chim- ucy'5 queer behavior had been miucl was DOW prepared to meet him in the regions he bad chosen for his exploits.
 ] had a pretty accurate kuowledge by this time Of the position and uuc- ton of an thc electric switches be- tween the lower hall aud the fourth floor. but ] tested them as | assembled. glauciug down now and then tO make sure ] was not observed From the sound Of voices in the library | judged that most Of Cecilia's suitOrs must now have arrived. and SO much the better. ! argued. for. with Miss Ocayla and her niece fully occupied, 1 could the better carry on my ghost hunt above stairs.
 At a quarter before ! switched off the lights on the third and fourth floors and established myself at the head of the stairway and quite near the trunk room door This door ] had opened, as ! faucied that 1T Bassford Hollister were at the bottom of the business he would probably wish to find his way to thc roof again So far as l was able to manage it the stage was in readiness for the entrance of the goblin.
 The clock below struck 9, and al- most upon the last stroke ] heard a sound that set my nerves tingling crouched in the dark waiting Some one was coming toward me, but from where; The bottom of a well at mid night was not blacker than the fourth foor but the switch lazy ready to my hand and my pockets were stuffed with matches of the sort that light any where The stairways were an carpet ed. as have said. and yet some one wns aY'eudng bare reads, lightly and with delays that suggested g Curtiye purpose Meanwhile as background for this uureaIity murmurs Of falkland s-'aslona laughter rose from the lL1 uary
 (To be conunued)