The Washington times., 1918-08-03
The Wolves of New York
A STORY OF LOVE AND MYSTERY
Esther Relates History of the Bora
dale Ghost for Benefit of
Lillian and Basil.


seems to have been seized with ths
desire to put his house In order
He married q young and beautiful
lady-her portrait hangs at Ad-
derley, and Il Is such a pllintive.
pretty face; I have seer hoto-
graphs OF II. though, L., L.;ally,
never the actual picture"
II know It," put in Lii. "A. 1T
II in the central hall A fair girl,
with eyes that look a. II they were
filled with tears. She is the origin
Of the white lady who Is supposed
to walk at Adderiey. Those people
who saw my poor sister had some
excuse in believing In the ghost.
Go on, Esther"
EVIL Traits Retura.
-Eor = few months all went
we'll" continued Esther. -The old
man seemed to be a reformed man.
But like Bluebeard. he seems to
have laid an Injunction upon his
wife that she was not TO enter
certain room or suite Of rooms. and,
naturally enough. she resented this
order.
Oao Ic9cnbou II III ~no AAol~
when some one suggested to her
that she had cause to be jealous
Of her husband. They told taies
to her about him: there must have
been no lack Of pateriAL But the
tale which AFFLICTED the poor girl
most was that the old man had
brought back from abroad a dark
woman-no one could describe her
aecurately-and that after some
months she had disappeared abso-
lutely from the hall This dlsap-
pearance was supposed to have
dated from q month or 50 before
his marriage.
Either he has murdered her
and her body lies concealed in one
of those rooms, or she Is alive and
hidden there That 10 what the
poor girl was told. and the inside
Gus poison gradually had its effect
upon her.
Yields to Temptation.
zone day, accompanied by .
friend, she was passing the for
bidden door when she noticed that
1t stood ajar. The temptation was
more than she could Withstand.
Borradaie was away from homs.
and there was no one to prevent her
Investigating on her own account.
Her friend tried to dissuads her.
but In vain She IaughingIy told
her companion to wait for her in
the passage and passed through the
door.
THE record have seen gives at
considerable length the Thoughts
and sensations Of the girl friend
she was a certain Marjory Clare
when. after waiting some half
hour, she found Mrs. Borradale dia
not return She admits in quaint
phraseology that she was terribly
frightened Nevertheless. she re-
turned to the door, and, to her
horror, found that IL was now
locked She knocked upon It aud
called loudly. but there was No
answer. She fled downstairs and
alarmed the house, but, strange
as II may SEEM no one had the
courage to break open the door.
All that they could do was to send
a messenger on horseback for Bor-
radale, who was in New York.
II was the following evening
before they found him, and in the
meanwhile nothing had happened.
The door had remained firmly
closely. and not a sound had been
heard from behind it
"Borradale arrived, and without
a word to any one he strode up 10
the door OF those closed rooms.
They say he gave peculiar knock.
and almost immediately he was
admitted.
But neither that day nor the
next did he reappear. A kind OF
superstitious awe must have fallen
upon the people OF the house-they
all stood in dread OF BorradaIe-
Tor they seem to have huddled to-
gether like sheep, and done moth
ing. Yet sobs and means were
heard from behind the door dur
ing the plight, a voice that might
have been Mrs. Borradale's, and
another voice besides begging for
mercy, and then screaming in
agony, and later there came the
feeble cry of an infant
Carried Infant In Arms.
1T was with an infant in his
arms that the old man at last
emerged His face was horrible -
look upon, and the people of the
house fed away before him. But
he called his servants back, and he
bade them wall up the entrance to
these rooms. She is dead he said,
my wife who could not obey me-
She was terrihed'-hs lapgheZ
ha-shly, abominably-'by hsr oRn
fears. She fell and lay thers -
the darkness. And So her ehnd aat
born. and she died. Wait nia up
the door. ! say. ana let there be an
end They did a. fe told them.
for there was not one who dared
interfere with him. And they took
the baby from him and cared for
1t; yet those who looked upon its
face and limbs shuddered in hor-
ror, for they cav that IL was .
deformity-a sickening monstrosity
that had been better unborn
Look at him. cried Borradale,
and take him out OF my sight She
cursed me with her dying lips, and
she cursed the race. The curse has
fallen quickly; It has fallen on my
child So shall II fall In future
upon the frst born OF the Borra-
dales, and so shall there be a curse
upon every male of the race
He alughed wildly. for he was
mad that night. mad with remorSo
and agony, and mad with horror
of the creature that had come nto