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The Baron - ran having a larger ctreulationthan any other paper in the county, mates: it the best . dvi•rtbsing medium in Northern Pennsylvania. • JOB P Win NO of every kind, in, plain and fancy colors, done with neatness and dispatch. Handbills, Blanks, Cards, Pamphlets, BlM:wade, Statemrata, &c., of every variety and style, printed at the shortest - notice. The VotrOnTgis °Ste la well supplied with power preases. a good assort ment of new type, and everything in the printing 1 Ina ran be executed bathe most artistic manner and at the lowest rates. TERMS INVARIABLY CASH'. 13,us1ness frarbs. D A.VIES, CARNOCHAN & 111 ALL, ATTORNETE;AT-LAW,. SOUTH SIDE OF WARD HOUSE., Dec 23=7.5 AI ADILL & KINNEY, ATTORNETS-AT-LAW. Office—Rooms formerly occupied by T. M. C. A Reading Raoul, IL J. MADILL, 3,15,50 MRS. E. J. PERRIcI9, TEACIIEVL OF RkANO ANI). onnAlt. Lessons given In Thorough Bass and Harmony (7ultivatlon of ill, voice a specialty. Located at T 3I ullnclt'. Pine St.' Ite fere:lee & Passage Towanda, Pa., March 4, Ib3U. JOHN W. CODDING, ATTOIMET-AT-lAW , , TOWANDA," PA. Office over Ktrby's Drug, Store TIIOMAS E. M 1 ER TTOTI ' TOW AND I'A. •:Icn with Patrick" and Foyle IiECK & OVERTON A TT° tiN EY S.* T LOC, TOWAN DA, I'A. OVKI1TO,;. It"" NEY A. I?ROUR, ATP/u`3.:l" A4 -1,1. W, • TOWANDN, P 4„ S,.licitor of Patfults. Particular attention paid I.u , ine,s to the Orphans Court and to the &Sato h:cut of estates. ori . co In Montanyi4 Block OVERTON & SANIERSO.N, ATTonNEf. 7 . - LIK; ToWXNDA, AIIiF.SANDERSON E.OVERTONIft. W 11. JESSUP, , , ATTORNEY' ANT) COrNCE.I.LOII-AT-LAW, • • : movritosp., PA. Judge .h•ssup Inc!lig rosined i ie practlreof the. law msylvania, ill attend ph, Northern reiuny 1..`%.1 business intruidcd to Mullin Iradford (Monty. Verson; wishing to consalt him; can call on 11. St r...etc r. Esq.. Towanda, l'a.„, whim an appointment can 1Y3,3*1..iff. , FIENRY STRV.F.7II., ATTORNEY ANI.) cOUNSF.LLOR-AT-LAW, , TO . "(V N PA. Feb `27,'79 1 1. L.I4LLIS, ATTMiNEY•AT7LkW, T+ INV AN DA. I'A. -P• GOFF, • ATTOI:N EY-AT-LAW, WY.ALUSING, PA A c , acy for the ,ftle and par..lkfr•O bt all 1;laels nf P‘e.;tritics aa•l for Li on In•al Estale. will lye ca re NI and t•riaapi. • [June 4. 1K79. • W. IL. Zll th-(3a,nEt I \ ( " -3 1 :-‘1 : 1- : S t c :44‘ P A . a ttc nd to all Itit•inet.s entr.c..te.l t;) hi , . care In Bradford, Flnlivatt tant Wyoming Coantics. Onice with Et,q. P,•rter. , n0y1944. HIRAM E. -BULL, SURVEYOR. , F.,;(;IN,Er111!: ( ;, Si'I:VEYING ANT) INIZAVTING. intro with G. F. Me. , on. over Patch S. Tracy, 1.1:011 hirer Z. T,Av•lnti:l4 IV; KIMBERLEY, ATTORNTEV-A.T.L.NW, TowANDA, PA • drxor south -of First' tintiqnal, Augustrl2, LSBREE S SON, ATT.)fIN EY AW, TOVAN DA, PA. • ELsr.r.r:v: FIRE INSURACE: aejt`pted the azenev of tho INSVRANCE f (.011.A.Ny, (Assetts over, $13,000.000 00.1 I ;Int rr,p.trvtl po!tch, atenrrrnt rates, Ms D., ....w..tr,T, ,,, 4,% , ,f0rit. Ofllee with 'Wm. Vltivent, 'rowatitUt, Pa. •lyr. • I 01IN'W. MIX; • _ 1 A UTOItSIi.Y•AT-L .kNILO T . S. COY.MISSIONEIro rtv A N , PA. • (nee—North ';' , lkle i'u'oac.s4ciare. J5.11.1,1E75 LIAM IV: -11 LT, :TOR NET-z 1 T- h.IIV , 1 --S•olth I'4 Dior Ftreit, opp , ,slte IWard Dll E WILT; 111 ATTA , W.I:Y = AT - 1. !VA% `,fain-st..ovt.r .1. L. Rent's St Mt.e c j t et! In German. • [April 12,'76.} IXT J. YOUNG, 1Y • " Arr4,I:NFA-Ai-I , Aw, ! • , TOWANDA, l'A. ilni.-,—ientA (1 ,,, .r ,01101 ,-,! the Firct .Nat'.9l - 41, flint . , Maln 'sr., up :• , tairF. . S. M. .Nr:00D1 - 31. 7 11. N, clan acrd r,tirgt,On. °Mix' ati le street. East of M3!:I. Ntay 1. ly• 11.. -,-- e „„. r B. ,F,I,L --I . .miY, DENTIST.ce ' a over M. E. tioittiel.rs. Toc.ait , la.ll',?. 'l',:etla L:,seried ' ,e oil t.4(;:.1, tiilver. Rubber, and Al . I rillrli um ba.a. Teeth ex..l r.,cted without 1.31 u. ' `.... , .0(1.34-72. . , F A. D.I'AY ,NE M. P. ~ I'llYl^ , lt'lAN AND : 4 1 : 1trii.ON. 0 nee over Mektnnyes.,' Store. ()Mee bolus from 10 10 12'A. m.. Ntol front 2 to 4 P. )t. . - - Special 114 tort ion given to I - 41.11-'.Stit) .. . i DISF.AtUitz ~ t •• , ' r , •: and % t• r TILE 1:1:Y 1: 1 : f T 111: 'EAR . W. ltcy A N , kfi • 't.:ol - KTV SCrEItINTCNIIIS T.Ve dal' last S3turdily of e3vit molith, rmer Turner tha,ll:rn's Ilrt4; Store,iiro*awki, '• To A' E S. IttSSELL'S INSURANCE AGENCY Xsy'2B-70t!.. , TONVA,.IDA, PA. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, TONVANDA, PA CAPITAL PAID IN SURPLUS FUND... This Bank offers unusual facilldes for the trans action of a general banking business. JOS. POW ELL, President PEET, TEACMER OF PIANO MtSIC, TEI . • (Residence Third street, Ist ward.) Tovranda, Jan. i3,-;?-1y. 1 12 . :1)!u11 -- ignal havingl\ll,the:la,o,l: y lil . would Follett th , patronage of the i•intonunlty. I'ust4ini Work diii,elluniedla;ely and In good order. All leaks In the Mill hare been tepalred abeltereatter It wIII he kept In good order. Fend— Flour, Beal and Tltali constantly on hand. Cat .1) paid for gratin at iMationtown. ilEtiltY W. WELLS. Mwir"eton, June 17. lihci. ' • persoris are forbid 1.1 cutting Tint tlw hinds of the latv:E.l. .Ir.l in (ivertob rittell rl , ll- , 11: ,•; th,:uLtlet;)lgtctl, under the hl.lty of the 1r.., JoIIN McGOVERIC, Eiecutur Vrcrtoa,Jlay 3d, Ibtu-lyt• COODRICH do HITCHCOCK. Publishers. ' VOLUME XLI. , t - , - A WORD BOUT WORDS. .kh mo 1 those terribl tourists of ours! „ Are we half aware of heir mightypowers? ' • Do we ever trouble otfr beads atal i _ • Whet - ti the jest may strike or the Hint mar fall? The latest , chlrp of that "little bird" 1- - That spicy story, you must hate beat t r— We jerk away lu our gossip rash, . ! . - And somebody's glass, of course, ices smash. ' What fames hate been hiastod`and tirokani What pestilent sinks hive ts;dn stirred By a word In lightness spoken, 14 only an idle word. • . TOWANDA, PA. A sneer—a shrug—a whisper low, • They are Tolsono!I shafts from as ambushed bolt, Shot by the coward, the fool, _the knaire They pierce the mall of the great or bravo.. Vain Is buckler or wisdom and pride To turn the pitiless point aside . . The lips may curl with's' careless smile, . • Bet the heart drips blood—drips blood the while. Ah me what hearts have been broken, What rivers of blood been stirred By a word In malice sppken, ll,y only a bitter word. 0. D. pIiNZY A kindly word and a tender tone— To only God Is:their virtue. known The.* can lift from the dust the abject head,. They can turn a foe to a friend Instead ; - The heart close-barred with paision and pride Will fling at their knock Its portals whIP, Arid the hate that , blights and the acorn That ware Will melt In the fountain of childilk4 - tgarS„ .What Ice-lona:1 griefs have beenlbroken, . `What rivers of.love been ktlrtecl Ty a word In kindness spoken,. By only a gentle, word ,' 5ep.25,19 BENJ BUCK May 1,'79 " Large and roomy; well furnish 7 ed . ; good garden; healthy neighbor hood ; within easy reach ,of rail way station; good boys' school near; not far from ;London; cheapl' ,Thu 4, with something more than a sitsideieu Lot scorn in her• voice, my sister Mar garet ran off* on her fingers the list' of my requirements fora house. I had jiist . returned from India with my six children, and I- was,anx. 'thus to settle—them comfortably be i fore their. father's return, • " You want ethe moment te s t blood was trickling,frdm the wotinil . I . had re -1 celyed, or I..should: not have asked her to light the candle. . As it was, I had to make the best,excuse I could in answer to herinquities. I said I must have Slept long by the fird, and in moving about. ; the darkened room had, fallen and . hurt. : Myself. The wound, however, . was found ; be a mere scratch; and in a few minutes the :veil: had succeeded - ia removing' from my face all' rnarks.of• the dis aster.. . • . /_ I askyi her to leave the candle With me 4 and'allow m to retire . to rest. Sne, did' so ; andiafter the door was closed upon I proceeded with the candle to examine the win dow more minutely. The mystery was as much a Mystery as ever. The window had certainly not been open ed by any one,' aixi no trace was visible on the walls of any possible means of ingress .or egresS. I felt more nervous - than ever, and .-viaS aboitt to , turn and leave the room together, so much did my fears op ;pre-swine, when something lying on the floor attracted my attention. • I stOciped=and picked it np. -It wits a small piece Of 'white - few' ihches square- , --very frail hi'the text ure, as if half-rottel ,with .damp= or age, and adorned with - . a peculiar kind of embroidery-such as I thought Thad seen before, but cotild . .notre; call where. • On one edge there. was a hem, the other - three. edges "wino irregular And jagged. It rooked like a piece of cloth wrenched out of a garment • by' the foot being sudden ly placed upon it.' Ifelt I had made a .discovery. . . Returning to the fire-place, I . sat down 'to think: 'lt seemed clear to me now that - my visitant, however he. or she had - effected an' entrance, was no spirit. This piece Of' linen was certainly not lying there when I had closed and barred the win dow for the ,night; nor could it be- . long to the.-apparel of any member. of my houSehold. It Was not likelf-that 'it' was part of the. loose ,garment, 0f, , , dingy whitewhich I ' now remembered 'my strange - Nisit: ant - wae. I am naturally strong-minded, an=t gradually began to' recover my coin posure.. I said to myself:.- "I shall find out the secret. The first link of . the.ehain is between my fin g ers.. I riff= M REGARDLESS OP DENUNCIATION FROM 'ANY Q 11013131. never, before heard of ghosts tramp ing bits . out of theWdrapeiy, and no doubt the , ghost I \ 'saw had been nearly us much afraid as myself when I so suddenly „approached it, and had not *ot away without a little flurry.! This accounts, too," I thought, 'for i the resistance Which I felt to my hand when I. first laid hold of the window-curtains." I was more' than ever persuaded that .a trick WWI beirig played upon: me. I did notleel, however, as if could sleep in :the room that ffight. If my t•iaitor was, as I suspected, morthlslike myself, there was no say ing what he or she might be induced to attempt should the desire of re venge prompt, a second visit. My life was not safe in such circum stances, when a' barred window and -locked door were not sufficient to 'protect me from intrusion.' resolv ed for that-night to occupy the bed- room where my two eldest children slept, which r- could reach without disturbing: the rest of the house. MC , _. . ...._,. ••••_•:•...... .. . .• ' Y c( - 1 . . t .. \._ ~ t . , .....• _ - - - I was about to take up my candle and go, when - I imagined I - heard a sound behind me. In state of nervousness, I, started, and - had i al most dropped the candle. .1 looked toward the windoiv; but the curtains hung motionless, and i.were parted as I had left Ulan._ • A thought 'Struck me. If my Nisit tor were to return after Ibad.retired; how should I know? I . pondered the matter a little, and' then _proceeded to action.' Trickery mustfin this case' be met by trickery., I tent up to my work-box, --to4k:bot a --reel of thread, and drew 'off a &iv, , yards. There were curtain-faSteners on each side of widow; about • two feet front the' floor;' and between these I stretched and. made-fast the length :Of thread, so thatno one could enter the room fromi the window-recess in he course of the night without consciously breaking, the frail battier had .erected. This 'would afford me sufficient proof as to whether the privady of_ my sleeping-room had. `again been i nvaded Taking up . my dandle slid the bit of cloth, I then Passed quietly out,-locking the door of_the room, and carrying.,.the. key with me. I felt' myself stronger in ,the presence of children, and Soon 'managed lb fall asleep. CIIAPTER 11. I= . My - first quest next .mortog on' leqving the apartment , 'whey I .h.id slept was for the purpose aseer- -1 taining whether- my bedroom Thad . ;been again entered after I had left it ion the previous evening. I unlocked ;the door, and cautiously looked in: Enough light came through between the drawn curtain to show Ink that the room.was apparently as I left; it. I advanced to the window and found the threadtherd, unbroken, and t vi dently Untouched. . I must confess I felt somewhat disappointed. My fears 'had prcihably exaggerated. niy con- Ceptions 'of the danger, and I had anticipated • a 'second Visit as . .mpre than•probable: After thinking, how ever, "came to the conelusion that it was better as it was. Hag my strange visitor for any purDose entered .my room .ft second'time;'and - found that I had 'quitted' it, the effect might have heen the reverse - of favorable to a discovery of the trickery,' which dis epvery could best be forwarded Thy .my making 'as little change in -my usual habits as possible... It was not imProbahle, seeing that no suspicion had - been aroused by the -krtofvledge that I had changed my- sleeping apartment, that the ghost " might be emboldened to pay`me a visit on. the following night; and - by - that time L hoped l to be able to arrange .for the interception of my- strange visitor, and tile detection of the trick. : _ In the course of the morning I had made up my mind how . l should pro ceed. :.Mrs. Weetil gengrally left after breakfast on her errands to the neighboring vilh.ge or elsewher i e, not generally returning for afew. hours ; and I thought. this a good time to obtain - nn interviw with Andrew, laic old- gardener, who, I .saw, was en o•airedlriramintr ,tte walks - in fiont of . 14. door. I had no doubt now that ivliat I had ken .bad been also all, pealing to the servants who had So stldet-tly departed On . the previous eveniriK; and I had nolloubt also that Andrew knew the - whoftf story about the, ghost having been again seen in the.hvuse. I opened the pal lor window, and spoke with him over the balcony. "Will you come staire,Andrew ? I shoitld,like to see you." lle sto d'for a moment, scratching Lis head. I think he would have pre ferred anything.to.entering my house. tat moment r- but evidently he did not see his way to reftising. A few moments later he was in the. drawing-room. "Andrew," I began, with some in-: tentional Soleninity of Manner, "you see the - position I am isn':" His - • ex presSion indicated that. he'considered the position an exceedingly„ fl unpleas4' -ant one: " The story has got' abonci. I went on, "that this house is haunt ed." He turned pale., " You think it is haunted?" I . ased, looking at him, fixedly. . ite- hesitated for a few moments, shook his head slowly, and succeeded finally in saying : " W'at is folks tei think, ma'am ?" " I acknowledge," answered, "that the thing has• a queer. look. When. people i appear; and vanish as' suddenly as they came, it' is difficult to think of them hscreqtureg (I flesh and blood like ourselves." "'Tain't possible-like," . was An drew's. comment and I observed .that with the Words", his face took, a more healthy hue'. The quiet tone I had ailumed'reassured him. .Ghosts, wheel they can be reasoned abOut,. lose half their terrors. "No," I answered him ; " it-is not possible. But Andrew, if.we look at these things from another point - of Nlew " • " Be there another?" he eagerly askedra,s . I paused to allow time /for expression of .opinion. . / - • "Yes," I said ; " there is another. Belbre I believe in your inteiprjta tion, Andrew-!—before I beliet it . possible that spirits canwander about the world for no other 'reason than. M=E 111 . . . to frighten people,lrnuattest mine." • *His - eyes, awakening to now, inter: est, were loOkingA Mine iniviringly. I explained- A' once. "What - I' Mean is .this. I suspect a - trick. Sometuidy_ has a spite against the o,wnenof this shorse—somebody has janinterest in l$ eeping.it empty." . Andrew Was naturally shrewd.' As I spoke there- came into his face a new look of keenneas.; ,Ho smiled, " There-has been queer things done," he ' observed with a: cautious impar tiality. , . --- •, . . . " You have been here some weeks," I said. ' " Have you. beard anything during that time about this s house, about the people who Own it? if am told they lived here once." . 1.-- 4 - • ° Thus stimulated, Andrewjtold me tbat,.the house and grounds-had orig= inally,helonged to Lord B—,fattier of the present lord, whose park was cominanddd by - our' front - windows. On the marriage - of . ' a 'favorite . sister with Mr: Roupel, a man somewhat beneath her iu positiOn, he'gave her. the house. Here . the married fair lived, in . ' much unhappiness it was said - and here their only, child, a daughter, was horn. After' running .throligh ,his.. Wife's money . ; the hus band died. W,h,cn . left alOne, - the widow, and her !now grown 11P-daugh ter,. determined - to' let. their house and: live ' abroad. The .rent 'of Abe furnished - house, with its- excellent garden, would bring them in, an in come sufficient - to enable ;them to live quietly ins, some foreign , town. But while this project was being dis cussed, the widow died, suddenly and, mysteriously. !An inquest was held over her; for strange Suspicions *ere circulated . - abroad. The verdict was .that she had 'died Of the famiily . - cam plaint—heart ,disease. BUt there were those who still ,spoke ..mysteriously .shout the circumstances of the:death, and declared that the lady had ' met with foul Play: , . ,• ' Now, this, was the ge rm of , the ghost story. for it was said far and near that. -Mrs. Roupel, if she had really been murdered—And murdered by her owti child, as some dared' to whisper—would'never rest in 'her grave. And whenJ. singular -appear ances carne .and' went, snit strange sounds were- heard in the house, mow empty save :for fili. ancient house he;ner, the suspicion, scarcely spoken of !at first abdvelireath, so . dark it *4 and, monstrous,,was! by and by openly discussed.. =. . . On thia_part'of the story-old An -drew Was ready to dilate. Rewarmed to the theme, indeed, and-=would willingly have given Me; bad' I Ile sired,it, a full and particular account of the Various people N4o from time to ' time.. had. been driven fro m . the premises. Biit I, holding still to my point, that trick had tode• with it, , restrained his flow of -,language, and endeavored by close questioning toAnd out what he knew about .the -daughter of Mrs. Roupel, who, if his story were.true, was the present own er of the haunted,house. ----..' - I elicited the folloWing facts. Miss Roupel;- 'was • nineteen years of age aboot . l-the . . period of het mother's. l i death. -She was then a young lady of high spirit and cheerful temper ; she was acconiplished,.witty, and un usually- attractive' in appearance. I Thus, in spite of: the - drawback - 4 en tailed by povertY, and a*sad; rinda,n- 1 -choly '''nothe,, the, young - lady was not withofit suitors. The suit of one of these was, :recording-to her mother 1 and ,herself—they remembered - their old antecedent's 'and !were' proud -1 little short of ail' Impertinence ; . for 'the man was no mor e nor less than Lord B---;_'s lioniie - steward. The' old housekeeper; to whom, before he bestowed the house upon :his - *sister, the , ohl lord had apportioned twO towns was Mrs. W,cevi i l, the stew; aril's Mother. ' It was natural that Miss Roilpel, ' niece' of his former . 6nployer, I should reject his suit, with disdain. , It . was perhaps no less 'littoral that the . re- jection, iinbittered by contempt, I should sink deeply iiito the steward's I `soul. 'The fact was, that- from the I day when he was-forbidden the house where, his mother liVeci l thejvctimg,.. l man changed. 'People Spoke.o - f his black looliS ' of his hard ways, of his -- • • -I cruel l i. cynical . spee c hes, and so me predicted a bad end' for him. • I -;- Meanwhile,. Miss .Roupel, nowieft I 'dime by her mother's death, narried, Mr. Egerton, a. mancfrom a monetary , Point of ..view, scarcely more eligible ! it 4han the steward:. He . wass Lieu- terra, tin theNs.vy ; but as he had n‘thing in the world but' his ',pay, - 1 they carried out Mrs. Roupel's plan . , of letting their honsti furnished, be lieving it, would bring them in a suf. I ficient income to enable the young. I'mlife to live in comfort while her hus band- was - away from .her, But, as Andrew remarked:, if 'this • was her belief,. she.. must have been' often '." sore -pinched," for the house could havelnonght. in - very little. >, I - 'thanked . him , .for his -- "Tstory.. ." N0w,".1 said,' " you must do some thing for me. ~Go to! i the village at once. Find the'carperiter rilikblack smith. Tell • them I Want them on important business. There -must be no delay. I Will' pay theni well for their work__ Do' yo.u- understand ?" For the old man was staring st .me as if lie thought I, had taken leave of my' senses.- . . -' 4 .-I understan'," he answered slow ly.:"'But What will you be wanting with them; ma'am ?" ' ".You will know all in good.tinie: They must bring !their tools. Now go, , Anikew, go quickly. 2 And mi'iid, Andrew, I added; "say nothing to, any One of ,yOur‘errand, and bring the joiner and blacksmith irOy the back. entrance, .fer I do ,not wish *them to-be seen coming here to-day by everybody." - . , Notwithstanding thede bold words, I "MIA _Confess that when Andrew started on. his message, and left me alone—for the ayiih-liad :gone dOwn to the Village—l felt a Tittle pneasy:' -I did not believe in/ spiritual, presen ces, but I didheliere in wickedness driven to desperation. I was bidding defiance to a foe of whose resources I - was utterly ignorant. !Whatif my defip.nce. should be taken up? ! Men-. tally I felt strong enough, physic:illy I was conscious of being 'weak, but I set about theperformance of my EZ1213 ~ . _. L . . I L. ' ':- : .'. ' - • 1 household duties, which occupied me fully till the return of-Andrew: • I took .him, as also the joiner and blacksmith, into the parlor, and told ; them'my-experiences of the'previous' evening«, Andrew exhibited 'symp toms of alarm ; but - I-foundthe joiner a sensible mom, and inclined, after what I told him,;to take a sithilai view' with - myself of the situation, namely, that we were being-made the subjects of some diabolical trickery, in order to drive us out of the house. He asked about Mrs. Weevil, and if I had ever been in her rooms. I said I had' not.s He proposed at once to visit them. . The door of her apart -rnents-was, as,usual, locked; but the blacksmith had little difficulty; in successfully picking the lOck, and ,effecting an entrance for us—Andrew being meanwhile sent to keep a look out in the garden, that no one ap proached the house unawares, There was nothing to :attract at tention in firs. Weevil's apartments. The joiner carefully examined them; but no means_ of egress - , from, either of the rooms :could be discovered, save the door by which he had en tere4the windows having iron grat ings. outside. 4. We took - the utmost care that • nothing wass — disarranged ; and any piece of furniture or apparel which we had occasion to disturb was replaced exactly as found. Pre vious to this, I shopldhave mention ed, both the joiner and blacksmith had made a particular ::examination of the bow-window of • my bedroom ; but had failed ; to find anything to awaken suspicion in the slightest. Our,search had: sofar been entirely fruitless; and I was beginning to feel more -perilexed than ever as, after what Andrew had told me of Mrs. Weevil, and of her son's - former rela tions to the 'owner of the house, I had somehow begun to connect her in my,,milid with the -mysterious ap pearance which had giyen it such a bad fame. We were in the act . of quitting the housekeeper's sitting-room,.- afraid that she might ,return 'before we had had time to .refasten the door, when I noticed tbe_.'blacksmith knee down on the floor ofthe inner apartment, and examine the foot of- one of the It. Was an ancient Eliza bethan; with heaVy faded - hangings, and stood on ai floor covered with a carpet, out of lwhich long use had' extracted ' atmnst all traces of its joiginal pattetin.- ',At a , signal. the' iner stooped down beside him ; and I- then observed that the caster at the foot of i - the bed-post - was glis tening with oil; as if it .had but re, cently been lubricated ; . and we all three then noticed that there was a distincts.dark oily streak - along the carpet, as if the bed had been moved forward obliqUelt for a fevi feet from where it stood, and then moved back again. i The joiner at once rose,: and taking hold of the bed found that be could pull it forward easily and with out making tlie. slightest noise; till iV was about a foot ftom the wall against ;A s which it stood. A s 'his point we no , ' ticed that .the bed , eemed to_ dip slightly to One side,'as if something were .yielding to its weight; and at the- same 'moment Ave observed a pan eling slightly open in that part of the wall which had tormerly been bid behind the. hangings.. 1 I was in a high state of excitement and with difficulty, could suppress Any feelings, 'it - stood -silent .as . the two menwent round and looked into the obeninriitits discovered. They asked fox' a Caudle, whiph I presently brought. them, whenNfe found. that the recess was a small ,plate ; about five feet high. andtwo deep, and that it was fortned of -solid mason-work ,on all sides but the front.. A box, rlargel enough to fill the whole space of :the bottom; was attached to- the wall by strongiron staples; as 'if to prevent its removal ; but curiously enough, the box itself was'not locked; though supplied with .a !Asp and padlock. The lid was at once lifts", when we sa* _stuffed into it, "as , it) hurriedly, a mass of white garment, which we',found to he an old chasuble .or , ,aurplice, that must have formed-a t onei time part of the ceremonial robes I of' a priest: We brought it forth to the light, and examined it; and there, in the skirt of the garment, we found. that a pfece had-been:torn out, which was exactly fitted by the bit of white embroideretl cloth Which Iliad picked DP • ifi my bedroom on: the previous .evening. This was evidence:indispu table - that,_ whoever or whatever my ghostly vision was ; here at least was the garment that .had been worn ,On that occasion ; the more so, that' at tached to the 'upper part of the gar -pent was a kind of hood which, When drawn,over the head and face, would give in a •dintand uncertain light the grim aspect "that I had, seen on the 'previous evening. I felt within me a .hurning indignation that for years 'the peace and happiness of successive' families in i the house, should have ..been destryyed by the wretched trickery of this depraved old woman, in her malkious desire to injure the young lady Who owned the house, by depriving' her of the income that would. otherwise have been -derived fronfit. ' ~ : My ,first impulse was to leave things as they were in the apartment till the arrival °tile old hag, and csnfront.her at once. with the evi dences we had discovered of her mai- , evolent pratices ; but on a second ex ' amihation of the box, it was - found that it contained a false bottom, eas ily .removed, under which were found a pair of leaded pistols. This struck us - as being scarcely in keeping with the idea that Mrs..Wsevil 'alone was cognizant of the' mischievous opera-' .tions which had ITen carried on here . for.scopany tears. These were ra ther: the weapons of a. person who . was. both able.. and willing to use them- . should an emergency direr. And what was still more puzzling, while we had thus far discovered the. means by which the ghostly reptita tioia of the house had been maintain- ed, there was as yet no trace of the manner in which access was gained, either to the bedrOom whiCh I occu ' pied, or to - any Other ' parts of the ~ house -which had been so roysterious : ly visited. In-These circumstances, : it was agreed at pnc,e to replace •ev erything as we had found them, 'ex ._ 111.00 per . Annum In Advince. cept that the. blacksmith -took the precaution of drawing the charge out of both pistols, stuffing the barrels afterwafd to the required depth with paper, so that, on being , probed, they might still appear as if loaded. - This done, the bed was moved back to, its . place, - when the paneling of itself closed asbefore. We then left the apartment, the door of which: was, though not without some difficulty, so fastened as not readily to excite the woman's suspicion that it had been tampered with. ~ It was now two hours after noon, and - . Mrs. Welvil might return at any . moment. The two men therefore de parted, but first arranging with. 'me that they should return after dusk, brinaing,the village constable along with ° them, to' await with• me the events.of the evening, , as. I felt" cer tain somehow—that the " ghost" would again appear, veth the object of driving me from the i i , holise, as oth er tenants had-been dri - en before. : Like his namesake id "Rob Roy," the old gardener, Andre*, was not a very good keeper of . secrets;' hence it was proposed that the joiner and blacksmith should take .him along with them to the village,. and keep him under surveillance till the' even ing. I was glad,When I saw them all out of the plaCe, without, so far as I knew, being 'seen by any one ; and still more glad when the ayah shortly afterward returned with the children, as I could not help feeling alarmed in the house by myself, considering what we had discovered, and especially what we had fiiiiled to discover, namely, how the person playing the ghost could obtain access to different parts' of the house so freely -as report represented, and as I had myself in one instance painful ly experienced. . • _ . : CHAPTER 111. Unlike• her usual practice,: Mrs. Weevil did not return to the - house that day till far on in the rifternoon ; and after slie had entered - 12er rooms I could hey herbustlinr , about with an Activity andivoise . , quite unprece dented in my experience of her •hah. its.! This rather alarmedme.- - I was - - , raid she had ; suspected;_from - the appearance, of .her rooms, notwith standing our care in removing - all . tracesprour presence , that someone had been there. in her absenCe; and this inighebe sufficient to defeat 'my. - hopes.of bringing to light the tricke ry thailiad been so long and so sys - - tematically ;practiced. But I was still more astonished when, atioutian hour after return. she sent a message to me by the ayah that she wished to speak Iwith ine, - if I Would grant her an interview.• At first I Scarce , ly knew what answer to make. Wete. I to• refuse td see her, this might complete .the.-- suspicion . which she perhaps-entertained and if did see her, I was afraid that I might by some Word or look betray the knOwl ;edge of which I had become possests ed: • I thought: upon the whole •I had better see her, and answered accord ingly. • As she entered the room , with a basket on her arm, she: dropped - .a f:ot;rtesv ; and from the flow of words with which she 3t once. opened - ths conversation, she seethed to put on a frankness of manner which I bad not . before observed in any slight inter course I had had-with her: '‘‘ Yes, Wis:'nni," she - went on' were just a-C2min' ma'am, :to. say as I would be goin' from the 'ouse for a few days,.; my - sonos is steward to Lord being took -very badly last night, ma'am ; as ; he have no one to. wait . -upon.. hit ; it hold - sr:is I, ma'am, as his mother, must do 'my dooty—yes, ma'am." • . : • All thit; she said; without once stopping.tp take breath ;and I could not help _obie_rvixig 'that' she was slightly flurried in iny • presence und seemed tia'keep talkinff as hide her ii,neasiness•as to' "enlighten me regarding her errand.:, I saiil44l Was very 'sorry to hear that, her - - .was ill,. and that it was very proper she should, in the circumstances, at tend to him. 4 But," I asked, " has he no servant in the house ?" "Not presently,, ma'am," she an 'swerpti ; " leastways.;:th.i 'ouse-maid have-gone away 'over to. Brookford fort few days, to' see her ' mother, who stays there, ma'am --,r-yeS,- ;" and - she courtesied again in the excess of ter After.l had - dismissed her did not know what to think: :This was an' interference with_ my• plan's on which I had not counted. I had -no one to advise with me,.and felt much perplexed. As evening approached, and - The .gloom of twilight,-- ; I hid a strange, nervous feeling, -such 'as I had . only • once before experienced, and , that was in India (Wring the terrible days when the mutiny__ was -- a its height, and every footfall made us start as,if nest moment were to be. our last. : As the, dusk deepened, my anxiety increased ; and when at length, the ayali conducted . the . join- I Cr, as I had before - instructed her, to 'm y root:nil was almost too OVerpOW ereel to speak. Andre* : and • the blacksmith..were for the time detain ' ed in' the kitchen, as I wished . th talk the 'matter over with the joiner, as I the most intelligent of the three, - f Aiii he entered my rOoth - , 7- I, , ,•:was surprised to Owl a second pers.o'n hind him, whom he introduc e ,dito me as-Mr;Buriows, the district Malice tor of• Police, who had heen on' .an official viSitto' the village that day s I and who; when - he , heard the story, volunteered his services in plaie • of the constable. . His presence at &ice gavome great relief; ; : and . this was entrinced when I fonndlie hail - had_ 'long experience in the London tecti,ve force, and was entering With the enthusiasm of his profesSion• into our plans. He had heard already fromthe-joiner what had passed that day; complimented me highly on the,. I:presenpp of mind.' had displayed on the previous eyening and expressed acquiescence in everything .'that we , had sincedone: ' , wy e n,.how s ever,.. I mentioned' to him my unexpected . interview - that afternoon with Mrs. Wee . vil, and that • she had lett the Louse, hdir waS a - good l taken back. l •j- - IloqiiestiOnedl me closely as to her' mariner and appear wiice when - she was in my 'room, and pilliTil3:44l:l ELI as to whether she seemed much of by her son's illness. I answer ed his several questions to the best of my ability; and he, after thinking awhile, pacing up and down the room, turned to me and said: "Let everything be carried oit as you formerly ;proposed. See that your family retire to rest at their usual time, and with as little'appear ance as possible of anything unusual going on. If the woman has- taken alarm, nothing will-be lost by .wait big till to-n2orrow,•when her rooms can be more carefully examined by daylight. In the first place, will you show me the bed-room in which you were 'disturbed last night ?" I condticted him thither, the•join er following and after he had ascer tained where,to use his own expres sion, I had rst seen the " party," and wirre and how the party had disappeared, he at once , - intimated his' plans; Ile said I was to retire to my roma as usual, seat myself in my chair by the llje as on . the previ ous evening, and either sleep or, ap pear to sleep, as was most agreeable "to myielf. Beyond the window stood a large wardrobe, in . _which, after the house was all quiet, he and the join er would conceal themselves; the blacksmith' and the gardener being set, as a guard -upon•tlie door of the housekeeper's room below. - The vil lage constable, he bad arranged, 'would keep watch on the outside of the house, but so as not to be readi ly discovered. The duties of the household . , in • the' ,absence of my sere ants; fell somewhat heavily on the, ayah and • myself, and the time passed quickly forme as' I bustled about, seeing the _ :children put to bed, after which the . ayah also retired. During all this time, 'everything had been carried on • inour.enstomaty way. Mr: Burrows and the rest of - his:helpers betook themselves for the time to a distant apartment upstairs, anti' the honk' had resounded all. the evening with the mingled sounds of - laughter and noise inseparable from a, large fami ly of children such .as ours. But now all was silent; the men 'had slipped • . quietly to their different • posts; Mr. • Burrows and. the joiner were, I knew, , pia We wardrobe at the other end „of my. bedroom (and I - was seated in ; . my lounging-chair, as on 'the previ ous evening.' As I sat in. this Position thinking,- . I could not helpobierving to myself , how. near we were : all Making our- Selves; ridiculous. The _old woman whom . I had .suspected was out of . the -house ;,no one else but the ordi nary members of„the IMusehold and the witehir could possibly ..be in ; and here was I, sitting at my .bed., room fire, making believe to sleep, with my two men concealed 'in .the -wardrobe, all hoping "to I eatchwe did not know'what. The humortiof - the.situation so strongly affected me at one time that could scarcely re frain. from bursting into laughter. - But_ the thought'of Mr. Burrows-bar-. ine, put himself to so much trouble , on my. account . , combined with a , membrance i of what I had experienc-; ed during the' past twenty-four hours, t• .gradually'scibered my .feelings. and shortlY•remild my thoughts' floating away in dim remembrance to my life: itr - India—t - o my distant husband; • to Our long separation.; to the tern- • , ble nights and 'days of that fearful mutiny, 'whose 'horrors still rose up , • before me ; toL-•- . There was a thud on the floor, and '1 started. I had been asleep, and in my slumber . had-knocked 'a book off the small. table at my elbow. The Aire was burning low, and I rose in a e,onfiised - statetto trim it, when my eye§ fell-nfpe what I 'had seen on . •. • ' the previous &ening... hi the imper feet lightrit seemed taller and more ;hasty-looking than before,.'and was approaching me from behind. As . my eyes fell :upon it I gave a loud , shriek, and•eaught hold of the, chair Ito support me. As I , ,did so, I saw the ferure, gradually - recede from me, and the room seemed to grow sud denly darker. lam certain that, left : :to :to myself, „I should at - that, moment • have fainted right, away, for. 'the whole thing had been so sudden, and / 'found me 'so unprepared, that, in ink,/ _ confusion I forgot all about the bus- _ Bless . or the night. lint just as the. white figure, se ?ed to be' approach ing the curtained . windoirs, saw two duck figures dash quickly upon it from behind . , then.a sharp and 1,10- . lent struggle, in which all three roll-• ed on the -floor, as if locked together in - deadly embrace. - The white fig- Ure had managed to wrench one arm loose, and in.another momerkt_ there was - - the.. sharp' click of a' pistol. Thanks, to.our forethOught, the wea , pon was. harmless. • By this time the noise of. struggle that. was . opine. - on had brolight the, blacksmith and Andrew, up to my apartment; and with thafthelp the white figure was iala few seconds manacled and led forward , tothe light, his white gar ment—an old surplice—hanging in ' tatters about him. He was at once .knOwn to the majority of the compa ny—it was the steward!: He turned ' his Una on me with a stifled oath. , him ' no* helpless, with - his hands fast behind his - back, in charge of the blacksmith, Mr.. 13tir- - rOwslled the way to the housekeep-,. er's ileonf below,: the door of which was foundto be locked. It was' at; , once -burst open, and,. taking a can ; die With us; we entered: The outer 'room was in the same -condition.as I had, seen it during the day, but the Inner room showed the bed. drawn forward, and.,.the paneling of the re-. eess, which we 'had discovered 'stand ing open. Nobody was there. iTak ling the candle forward' to examine ~ the recess, Mr. Burrows found that• 1 , the box had a.movable bottom, - in ad- - dition to that which we had diseov ' ered,.:and that‘ - by: its removal an opening sufficient for one person -et a time'led down - a trap-stair Into the cellars below. Mr. Burrows and the joiner at once descended,' taking the light with them, the rest of us wait , ing, as directed, in .the outer apart anent, or the lobbies that . led to it. In a few. minutes I heard sudden footsteps in my bed-room, and; rush- - ing thither, found that- Ift." Burrows _ and 'the joiner had reached it from the cellars, into which. the trap-dtior led, the whole of the' wood-work of one side of the window of my room_ being ingeniously made to move back ,upon hinges like a door; yet so 'con- . strutted that it could not he opened' . by any cue in the ;room:- When the steward was searched there was found on him; besides the pistols, a bunch of duplicate-keys, whizlrcould open any chamber or any other lock fast place in the house.' The constable having been called in from the garden, the at'evitirdiWho 'had. hitherto stood silent .and•sulten; ;with a dark expression of malice and revenge, upon his face, was handed. over to him, and"be was instructed by his superior to convey him 'to the lo cal Police officetincl place him in a cell.. 'The blacksniith he ordered to ECONCLtDED FOUBTIL PAGE.] ISM