Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-06
WORLD FAMOUS STORIES
MARYLAND GHOSTS
ANONYMOUS.

, out alive Her husband cruelty muir
| dered her with a club. The point OF
land has ever since been known by Peg
Alleys name, and her perturbed spirit
has been supposed to haunt the scene
of her untimely taking off.
About IL years ago gang of rail-
! splitterS was at work on the point,
| and one day the foreman fatty refused
| to go back, declaring that queer things
happened down there, and that he had
seen a ghost. Mr.. Kennedy, his en-
ployer, laughed at him and dismissed
the matter from his mind. Some time
after this Mr. Kennedy had occasion
to ride through the woods to look after
some sheep, there being but one road
and the water on either side. AS he
approached the point his horse started
violently and refused to go on, regard
less of whip or spur.
CHANGING about for the cause of this
unnatural fright, he saw a woman rise
up from log, few yards in advance,
and stand by the roadside, looking at
him. She was very poorly clad in a
faded calico dress, and wore limp
sun bonnet. from beneath which her
thin, jet-black hair struggled down on
her shoulders; her face was thin and
sallow and her eyes black and piercing.
knowing that she had no business there,
he called to her somewhat angrily TO
get out of the way, as his animal was
afraid of her.
Slowly she turned and walked into
the thicket, uttering not syllable and
looking reproachfully at him as she
went. With much difficulty he forced
his horse to the spot, hoping to find
out who the strange intruder might be,
but the most careful search failed to
aE al
there was no place of concealment and
no possibility of escape, for which, in
| deed, there was not sufficient time.
The old family seat of the It's, one
! of the most prominent names in the
community, Is not far from the scenes
| of the adventure. In all, region OF
| lovely situations and charming water
views, its site is one Of the most beau
| tiful. The brick mansion, with all the
strangely mixed comforts and discom-
| forts of ancient architecture, rearS Its
roof up from an elevated lawn, while
the silvery thread of a land-locked
stream winds nearly around the whole.
! Over the further bank danced the spar
king waters of a broad estuary, flash
| ing in the glance of the sunlight or
tossing its white capped pillows in angry
mimicry of the sea. The CLEAN OF white
sails is never lacking to add variety
and picturesqueness to the scene.
In the dead, hushed calm of Sum-
mer evening, when the lifted oar rests
on the gunwale, unwilling TO disturb
| with its dip the CLASSY surface, one has
strange, dreamy sense OF being sus-
pended in space, the sky, in all its
chaging beauties. being accurately re-
f1ected in illimitable depth by the still
water, until the charm is broken by the
splash and ripple of school OF nomadic
alewives or the gliding, sinuous I'm Of
a piratical shark.
In this lovely home 1t was wont for
the family to assemble on the occasion
of certain domestic celebrations. and II
was at one of these that the following
incident occurred.
All we're present except one member
who was detained by sickness at hel
residence, Is miles away. 1t was In
early afternoon that one OF the ladies
standing at an open window, suddenly
exclaimed: why, there's Aunt M1lly
crossing the flower garden!"
The party approached the window
and beheld, in great surprise, the lady
in her ordinary costume, slowly Strollinf
among the flowers. She paused and
looked earnestly at the group, her fea-
lures plainly visible; then turned anc
disappeared amidst the shrubbery. Nc
trace of her presence being discoveranle
1t was natural that gloom fell upon
the company. A few hours later
messenger arrived with the news Of
her death The time of her appar1tior
and the time OF her death conceded.