The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1915-05-22
GHOST MEETS GHOST
By MOLLY McMAsTER.

1 GOuUsG liOAA Lh0 SAN1
before. The lease was signed. The
real estate agent had shown 1t to
Doreen the while he lamented her
keen disappointment.
Never mind" he added, trying to
mitigate her loss. Fir Vale is haunt
ed by fearful specters hat wall about
among these fir trees and perpetrate
ghostly tricks on the minds of the
tenants"
But did you o warn this coupler"
asked Doreen, with a shade Of
hope in her eyes, because she was
not afraid of ghosts.
"Oh, yes, certainly | did, but they
rather fancied the idea Of seeing a
real, live ghost. They said city peo-
pie seldom got a chance at anything
so exciting"
Doreen shifted at the cold-blooded
lack of imagination and walked SLOW
ly back to her own cottage that lay
back to back with Fir Vale and did
not face the blue water of the sound.
She did not know that a second APP
plicant for Fir Vale entered the real
estate office even before her footsteps
had died away in the distance.
A young man more keenly disap-
pointed than Doreen left the agent
after having been shown the lease
signed by the fortunate couple from
the city.
"They won't consider themselves
lucky by the time | have become a
ghost and haunted them into ghostly
fears of insanity and longin0 for
specterless city flats" muttered Jimmy
Barker as he made his frustrated way
back to his own abode.
Jimmy boarded in a sor of farm
house and was sick of boarding. He
wanted Fir Vale, and he wanted it
badly. 1t was the only cottage In all
his days that made Jimmy Barker plan
hideous tricks.
The new couple had scarcely settled
in Fir Vale before the specter of mag
nation began to wall about the fir
Swallowed property. A restless spirit
foated about, fleeing from its own
fright. 1t seemed to the ghost that
never before had a harmless bit of
garden been so charged with nerve
racking sounds.
Her diaphanous white robes, for
1t was a female ghost, seemed ever
to be clutched by unseen hands.
Twigs underneath her feet snapped,
and from time to time a cone
dropped from the branches over
head and dragged a swiftly stified
scream from the ghosts lips. Doreen
wished she possessed greater courage
for her ghostly maneuvers for the sue
cess of her purpose.
She was drawing a deep breath
preparatory to making a brave eff
fort at haunting, when a grue-
some and frightful specter had
doomed up at her very elbow and the
lurid blue light in its waving hand
burned with sinister glow. Doreen,
after her one glance, swayed and knew
no more until she felt herself held
firmly in muscular arms and heard the
laborious breathing of a human being.
She stirred and tried to peer
through the thickness of her wells,
but all she saw was more white wells.
You are not a ghost, them" she
questioned when she felt reasonably
confident of an answer in the mega
tive.
Great Scott-you gave me an awful
fright" Jimmy Parker said. and
mopped his brow with a portion of
his ghostly raiment.
What in the deuce are you doing
prowling about In this dark garden?"
he questioned, wishing he coud get
a look at her face.
IF you want to know the truth"
she told him with a soft laugh that
Jimmy found most charming, Il am
simply trying to haunt these people
out of that new home. | want 1t so
badly that | am going to wait about
this property until they get out for
fear of losing their minds"
Jimmy laughed and drew a trifie
nearer the other ghost.
1.-TWO haunts would certainly move
them quicker than one-don't you
think so? Now, | have come here
with the same evil intentions as your
self, SO the best we a do is to join
forces and do our haunting together"
Doreen certainly wanted the pres
ence of a strong, muscular man. He
would never see her face to face, and
they would always be strangers, SO
why hesitate?
Night after night they performed
their most ghostly tricks, but the
couple within maintained a comfort
able, unimaginative of security.
1T is very strange" Jimmy was
saying on one OF the trips to a fallen
tree that nightly became more pro-
longed while haunting was forgotten.
II seem to be in love with you, but
at the same time he paused a mo-
ment hesitatlng to continue. i am
desperately interested In a girl |
have met in the world of society. Do
Won haDneu to know