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Will I tcU ye th story of the Bally
Mtlln fhoat?" Faith, will I, your
feasor; but it's a mighty small matter,
after all. He waa a poor creature, was
that same, and so's the lure o' them
ken you eoaie to reckon m up. Sura,
g hoata ia nothing hut shadows at all,
and what harm ia there In a shadow?
rTbite that I ever heard of, barrln' Pat
Donovan's, that lie struck with his
blackthorn when he was coming home
Carrickmahoo Fair, thinking that aBd ru8t, rlnor M tbke W1U
Hn. rascal that w.s following Hhl ? ne
of him. and juat aent hi. stick through M. X th
Widow Mahin.y. window, which It-SB' .mragelnto my
Mm frreshiMinga, worse luck, for mend- j Brt nd th ho,t -has
tke broken glass and frame. went Into one room after the other,
Well, this la the truth of It, your . H" P with chtmney-pieoee at
honor. BallykUMa Castle was haunted 'e Ag-tires. d ceiling!
hy a ghoet. Faith, it we, for I've i Ptntd n dlrided off into squares,
ItwMo. nobody'a eyea but my own. i
wsaj ft waa tn gttoat of a aig scoun
drel, he was the "bad baronet" they
ailed him, who betrayed his country
ta the time o' Yllliem of Orange, and
was found dead one fine morning in his
wn court-yard with a bullet through
Ida wioked heart Kot a soul ever knew
Who did it; but, whoever it was, he hod
the blessings of all the country round;
ior he was a mighty great rascal, waa
Mr Roderick Shane.
There nerer waa a Shane like him be
fore or since; for they're all been gen
tlemen, every baronet of them. And
there was no finer gentleman in Ireland
than my own colonel, Sir Peter Shane,
who commended the regiment I was
out with in India, before I got my dl
ejharge for being crippled in the left leg
in a scrimmage with the Indiana
Bless the dear old colonel! There
wasn't a boy in the regiment who
wouldn't hare died for him; and when
he asked if there was ever a man with
pluck enough to go up to the castle and
see whether there was a ghost iu it or
not, it'eahhatned of myself that I would
have been if I hadn't been the first to
volunteer for the job.
But I'm hurrying on a bit too foot
For you must know that Ballykillin
Castle had been shut up and left to go
to waste for years upon years, all bo
oans of that murdering, thieving old
ghost And so waa the lovely demesne
all around it, with its oak and beech
trees and shady walks all frown over
with weeds and rubbish, and its pretty
gardens running wild for want of a
gardener. For never a soul would go
near the place, and the hoys would
walk miles out of their way o' nights
to give it a wide berth. Ooh! it was a
pity, so it v as entirely.
So Sir Peter, he says: "Here's this
fine old house of mine all run to wrack
ana ruin because of a bit of stupid su
perstition;" and the brave old man
would have gene himself to pass anight
in. the castle, to prove there was no
I host, at all, only his good lady and the
tar Shanes wouldn't let him.
Well, then, when I said I would go
farfjb the eastle after dirk and see if
thine was a ghost or not, he just shook
haid with me and sold I was a bold
14. and if I did it he would give me
Hfi Bridget M to start housekeeping
if when we were married. But I said
I iwould do it for the lore of him and
th family, net for the money, though
sure that same would come in handy
far the wedding.
But Biddy, when she heard what 1
waa after, threw her arms round my
avsek and held me fast, saying:
"Och! Timothy darling, sure you'll
ever go and do such a thing. You'll
ba kilt and murdered, that's whatyeu'll
be, and leave me s widow before we
ae married."
Taith, no," says 1; "the ghost won't
hurt ma, if there ia e; and if there
isn't the colonel oan get Into the oaa
tie and lire among us, and needn't be
no absentee any amor at nlL"
"But oeh!" says Biddy; 'If the ghost
Anesn't klU yon, he'U frirhtan yon
nt of yemr blaaaed wits, and it's a poor
sWuaUd lunatic that III have ior a hits
band all ssy days.", .
Wall, your honor, it was mighty hard
work that I had to quiet the colleen, and
fersuade her to let me go without any
wn howling. And all the folks la
Ballykillin, when they saw ma march
4sS to the castle With my atlck and my
hag of ritnala over my shoulder, swore
14 nerer eome back with my wits
avoont aae, ernn if I didn't leare my
oprpee behind.
But I'd faced the black niggers out
tn India, and I didn't believe there wu
ghost half as ugly or ricioas as the
host of them. Td heard ghost storiei
(lore In my time, and never know of one
where anything worse happened than a
hit of a fright; and sure, thinks I, if
you're not frigStened what harm cap
come to you at all?
So I marched up to the oastle with
never a twitter of the heart whistling
'Pinnegan's Walto" just for company's
sake, and ready to face all the ghosts
In the bad place or out of it The rusty
iron gates at the entrance of the de
mesne were hangicg loose on their
hinges, and the pretty lodge was all
In ruins, with the creeping ivy grow
ing over it The road under the big
trees up the avenue was all covered
with weeds, and a mighty big pond that
you passed lar under a sheet of nasty
green stuff that hod gathered on it for ,
years. '
And the catle stood out grim aud
rruy against the blood-red suuet Us- I
hind, just like the haunted house that
you see in the picture-book. But h !
didn't daunt me with all its queer
looks; so I marched straight up to the
old door; and put in the key. It wanted
a twist 1 tell you, to turn the key In
the lock; but I soon got the door open,
and then I waa in the dark old hall all
rv.
M qaiet as a ohuroh-yard, barring1 the
scuttering of the rate and bats which I
set flying, without "by your leare."
Then I stepped up the old staircase
nd, ochl how It cracked and croaked
under my feet; .and little wonder, for
! It hadn't been trodden on by mortal
feet fur maybe a hundred yearsor more,
i And so I went on through the old rooms
and galleries with never a bit of furni
ture in them, barring a rtoketr chair
and a table here and there, and ragged
Ju" " po n"Ter "u
bh a kudu winaow it, jot u me
glass was broken and smashed as though
there had been an election or a pattern
fair outside. At last I came to one that
was pretty weather-tight, and there I
made myself snug for the night. I got
in some old furniture, and broke it up
for a fire In the grate, keeping a table
and chair for myself to hare my supper;
and then I sat down and lighted my
pine and waited for the ghost
BR STOOD TllvTRK AXD
Oeh! it was all nice and quiet and
the moon came out and peeped through
the window as much as to say, "Tim
Maearthy, my boy, sure I've come to
keep you company." I knew I would
see nothing of the ghost if be oame at
all, till midnight as that was his time
to appear-, so the folks said. Tic was
as regular as the rent-oollector. was
that ghost if you was to believe all
you heard, and never stayed a minute
after sunrise; sol thought I knew when
to expect him.
Jure enough, just as the cktck, far
off, struck the last stroke of midnight,
I heard a quer noise.
"What's that anyhow?" I says to
myself.
For it was such a sound as I never be
fore heard in my life. It was like some
poor creature groaning, worse than any
of the wounded on the battle-field, with
just a . touch of a wail now and then
like a howl at a wake, but more dis
mal. "Faith!" thinks I, "the ghost is com
ing." So I put myself in a genteel position,
with one leg crossed over my knee, and
kept my pipe in my mouth, and held
my head up, so as to look becoming
when the ghost appeared. There I sat
and listened, and presently I heard a
creaking of the board, such as I made
myself whan I was coming up the old
tair
Well, your honor, th sounds of th
groaning and th creaking oame nearer
and neare, aa& gt louder and louder
rery aslant, and . if I. aajd say heart
wasn't beginning to Wat bit, sure I
would be telling ye a Ha , But I kept
up my courage as well (. eould, telling
myself thee was nothing to ho afraid
of, and that as I had ooaa to do this
job I must go through with it
So I was as cool aa th pioooe server
when they introduced hint into the
river; and, by my soul, I needed to be
that when I tell you what happened
next A I live, the door just in front
f me swung slowly open, hit by hit,
with nerer a hand thaVl could see to
set it moring; and when it was wide
open, (here, in the full light of the
moon, stood a ' figure that looked just
awfuL
It waa the ghost, sure enough. It
waa the shadow of the "bad baronet"
Str Roderick Shane, dreeaed aa be was
two hundred years ago, when they put
a bullet into him for his behavior. He
had on an elegant green coat slashed
with gold lace, and under it a white
frilled shirt with aa ugly red stain over
the left breast There waa a lontr wiir
on his hesd, reaching down over his
I shoulders, and he had knee-bU, with
' t-purs, on his legs, and a sword by his
. side.
1,,lt- I,tn! " wa BOt ms n?ure, nor
7e W dre- thot looked so queer. It
w hit whit nd pasty, like that
ot a corpse, and his horrible dead eye
wun nerer a u oi '
Woodless Hps parted and showing
hi
a
a
I
ol uly Dt'u: ve"B , T
hiver through me in spits of myself.
wasn't afraid, though nirer a bit! and
I hadn't looked at him for above a min
ute or two before I got used to him en
tlrely.
Well, he stood and glared at me, as I
at and looked at him, with my
lag cress sd over my knoa, and
my pipe la say mouth, t took
out that last, so as I eould nay
something civil 1 to him; but nerer a
limb did I more.
' "Good-evening, your honor!" says t
"Sure, you must be the ghost of the
bad I beg your honor's pardon of Sir
Roderick Shane, I moan."
. "Man," cried the ghost In a hollow
voice, "do you dare sit there In my
presence?"
"Faith," says I, "I do. Why wouldn't
I?"
"Do you not know," says he, .'-what
fearful risks you run?"
"No," says I, "I don't; and would be
much obliged for particulars of the
same."
"Your reason," soys he, "your rery
lifo Is In danger."
"Well, now," says 1, "you don't soy
that? Sure I'd like to know how you
make it out"
"At a word from me," says the ghosv,
"you might be driven Into raving mild
ness or drivelling idiocy. I could blast
you as by a llphtnlng-strokc, or crush
you into dust"
"Inilade, then," says I, "it's lucky for
me you don't"
''But" ys he, "I cannot long for
bear." "Can't you?" aays t "Well, then, if
I may ask without offence, how long
will you be forbearing?"
"Until to-morrow night," says he.
"You hare intruded here, no dojbt in
ignorance. Begone at once, and I will
spare you; but nerer again presume to
trespass on my domain."
Well, the ghost talking in this way
of the old oolonel's property as his
domain, began to get my blood up.
But I kept as oool as I could, and said:
"Sure it's rery good of your honor to
let me off so easy; but I ask your pardon
if I say that this is not your domain at
all. It used to be, I allow; but it be
long now to my old colonel Sir Peter
GLARED iT MK.
Shane. God
here under his orders, here I mean to
stay."
"Fool!" cried the ghost and then he
gave one of his dismal trroncs.
This vat more than I could put up
with, even from the ghost of one of the
quality.
"Now, look here, ghost" says I.
"Don't you begin of calling names, be
tttote two can pkiy attthet game, and I
tnow the trick of it Soirt, I've a
good a right to be here as you hare,
and better. Indeed, you've do business
o be here at all. Tho castle don't bo
long to you now, and you'ro kept all
(decent folk out of it eeer since you got
.that piece orf lead between wx.it ribt.
Why don't yon keep quiet and easy ia
your comfortable grave, and leare the
old place alone?"
"Bow dare you address me thus?"
aays the ghest "You a mean, com
mon soldier! dare you apeak to me like
this to me, a gentleman, the head of
an ancient house, to whom you might
in days gone by, hare been the basest
menial in his service?"
This wasn't civil, but I kept my
semper.
"Tea, ghost" says I, 'that's right
enough. All that might hare been long
ago, before you waa done for-, hut sura,
times ha changed slno than, and 1
dare do a deal now that would hare
bee a liberty ace,"
"Vile oog!" said th ghost, "I will
parlay with you a longer. Bat, oao
snore, beware how you trespass here
again, - If I discover you within these
wall to-morrow night year doom is
death. Farewell!"
"A good-night to you honor," sayv
I getting up for th first time, so as U
be a bit clril now he was departing.
Then I heard him go creaking ami
groaning along th passage till th
sound of him was lost in the distance.
I oouldn't help bursting out laughing.
I slapped my thigh and aays to myself;
"Taith! I've had to beet of him thit
tins, anyhow."
Well, I thought I would see no mom
of him that night so I just curled my
self up on the big seat in the window,
and soon was fast asleep.
TO BE COSTIM'KD.)
Now riea.
Moneybags But you haven't enough
to support my daughter.
Impecune If she is as extravagant
as that sir, you should be thankful to
hare me take her off your hands.
Judge.
A Baya,. lous Cunrlualua.
"What did Daniel do in the lion',
den?" inquired the teacher.
"He must have had a regular cir
cus," replied the smart bad boy, after
some thought Troth.
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