Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-12

NFykuit h " "A~'NN''" |
 You hear aouse in the walls and i
 think it's Q pst! But you forget |
 James that ( is new house. only l
 a year or so ( and spooks 3on't ire
 quent such phs If it were an old 1
 place 1t miglbe possible that the
 creaking of d's and the settling of
 walls would c5e uneasiness in nerv-
 ous people f ghost tradition usual
 ly rests ou so ugly fact But here
 nothing of thtud Is present.
 Hit was onof ifs maiesty's horlh- cers. sir" he swered hoarsely.
 It flashed oy me that this big stol.
 i'd fellow wabut of his head; but
 sane or mad hFas clearly greatly dis turbed It best. thought. on
 either hypothe to speak to him per
 emptorily, and rose. the better to
 deal with the uation
 What nonste is this you have ln your head2 pure in the United
 States. and te aren't any majesty's
 soldiers to dd with You forget that
 you're not inhgland now
 But this fe country used to be
 Henglish. yd may recall sir The
 story the coaiman got hin the village
 gees back tohe hold times. sir. when
 the colonies IS hin rebellion. if may
 so call hit, si and is majesty's troops
 was putin lowu the rebellion hin
 tbese parts Some American rebels chased a Brish soldier from hover near White Ilius tO these ere woods as they was len, and they 'anged i'm. sir right whre this ere 'ouse stands, if may mas so free
 You'd bettr go to bed, James And don't encourGe talk among the other servants abdt this ghost know something abut the building of houses, and lI give tese walls a good looking over. Good tight"
 l made mbelf comfortable for an hour. smoku. a cigar over an article on English pJitics. and while | read a big log plucidy burned itself to ashes. found the switch and snapped out the library Hints When ! bad gained the second d,or | turned o1 the lights in the hull below. and. as | looked down the well Co make sure l had turned the light key, the third floor lights suddenly died and was left in darkness This was the least bit dis upper lights had remained burning brightly after the darkeniuG of the lower hall. so that it was hardly pos. sible that the one switch had cut off both lights
 Standing by the rail that guarded the well l peered upward thinking chat some one above me was manipulating switch. but the silence was as complete as the blacl,ness. was about Co turn from the rail Co the wall to find the switch. but at this moment as my face was suIl lifted in the in' tentness with which | was listening something brushed my cheek-some- thing soft of touch and swift of move ment As l gripped the rail ] felt this touch once twice. thrice Then my hand sought the wall madly. aud with so bad an aim that it was quite a min. ute before found the switch plate and snapped all the keys. The stair and the halls above and below me sprang into being again. and ] stood blinking stupidly upward
 Though l was in modern house lighted by electricity ] can. not deny chat this incident. following so quickly upon tue buffers story, oc- casi0ned a moments acute hair raising accompanied by an uncomfortable tremor of the legs As already hinted l lay no claim to great valor As for ghosts am half persuaded of their and, after witnessing a pres. entatiOn of Hamlet always feel that is as safe a guide in such matters as the destructive scientific critics.
 There were various plausible expla- nations of the failure of the lights. Some switch that ] did not know of. perhaps in the third floor hall. might have seen turned or the power house in the village might have been shift ing dynamos. Either solution of the riddle was credible But the ghosty touch on my face could not be ace counted for SO readily Leaving the lights on. ] continued to the third floor and examined the switch and sought in other ways to explain these phenomena. My composure returned more slowly than ] care to confess. and l think it was probably i'm my mind that the ghost Of Kiug Georges dead soldier might be lying In wait for me, but I saw and heard nothing The doors of the unused chambers on the third floor were closed. and did not feel justified in trying them. The servants were housed on this floor ut the rear of the house. and a door thur cue of their quarters proved on ex' animation to be tightly locked
 The fourth floor was only a half sto- ry, used for storage purposes. The roof was gained. l recalled, by an iron ladder and hatchway in a trunk room l ran down to my room and found a candle. 10 De armed against any further hckleness of the lights, and set out for the fourth floor had changed my coat and with a couple of candles and a lox of matches started for the roof My courage had risen now. and ] wts ready for any further adventure that the night might hold r.- r.a Nffaa TuaIfefnr ana Cecilia