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INVESTIGATING A GHOST.
(Continued from page 3.)
now! Yes! Slowly, solemnly arose
from bhind the footboard a figure all
in white. Mrs. Munn covered hei’
head with the quilt.
“You are right to quail before me,”
said a voice. “I claim my husband
for my own. Marrv* him, and you die!”
It was the voice of Mrs. Sheers, it
seemed to the old lady. She had al
ways disliked it. Now it irritated her
and helped her to be brave. Making
one great effort, she sprang to her
feet and faced the ghost.
“Miss Shepherd that use to be,” she
said, “I’m not afraid of any spook
that walks. Vanish, and don’t come
here any more!”
The ghost retired. Mrs. Munn fol
lowed. It struck her that she had
frightened the spirit more than it had
frightened her. This encouraged her.
"You had him while you lived,” she
said. “Seems to me, since you can’t
take a husband any more than any
other piece of property into the other
world, you ought to be satisfied. Scoot
now! Vanish! Disappear! I shouldn t
wonder if you’d hurt your prospects of
future happiness haunting folks. I
don t believe it’s approved of where
you are. I say, why don’t you disap
pear?” and stretching out her hand,
she grabbed the ghost by the collar,
as she had the burglar. Her face was
close to its pallid face now, and she
recognized the small nose, small
mouth, and fiat forehead of the late
Mrs. Sheers amid the folds of the
ghostly head-dress. But the thing
did not vanish. It was quite substan
tial.
“I believe I’ve materialized you,”
said Mrs. Munn, as she crowded the
ghost in the corner and reached for
the dark lantern which she had hid
den under her pillow, and opened the
slide. In a moment more she had pull
ed away the white wrappings and
stood over a sharp-featured young wo
man in a heliotrope-colored gown who
crouched and shivered in the corner
—Miss Selina Shepherd, who resemb
lance to her sister vanished when one
saw her red hair, for Mrs. Sheers’
hair had been black, either by nature
or by art. Opinions varied as to that.
“So it is you,” said Mrs. Munn —
“you that have been frightening my
Clarity out of marrying your sister’s
widow! I suppose she'd have gone
on thinking you a ghost forever. But
you’ve got to deal with me now. How
did you get in?”
“Oh, Mrs. Munn, have mercy!” Se
lina moaned. “Sister left everything
to him, and I’m to be turned out of
house and home. It was just life and
death to me that he shouldn’t marry.”
“You didn’t want him yourself,
then?” asked Mrs. Munn.
“No,” said Selina. “No more than
he wants me. I meant to keep house
and be his sister; and I don’t know
how to earn my living. Now he’ll be
furious and he’ll hate me.”
“Miss Selina,” said Mrs. Munn,
“how did you get in here?”
“A trap door in the corner opens
on a pair of stairs to the drug store.
This used to be a store room,” sob
bed Selina. “It bolts on the other
side.”
“I’ll see it is nailed up,” said Mrs.
Munn. “Now we may come to terms.
I’ll tell Clarity, but neither of us will
tell the doctor or anybody else. Stop
haunting and be friendly, and Clarity
won’t let the doctor send you away.
Seeing he’s got your sister’s money,
that will be but fair. Only, the min
ute Clarity is tormented I tell my
story.”
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF AUG. 21
Miss Selina stopped sobbing and
scrambled to her feet.
“Agreed,” she said. “Women who
have had hard times ought to feel for
each other. Sister ought to have left
her money to me. Then he might
have married anybody he wanted. I
never could see anything to admire
in him, for my part.”
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“I do,” said Mrs. Munn —“his drug
stoie and what he has in the bank.
As for looks —” She shrugged her
shoulders; so did Miss Selina Shep
herd, and then they shook hands.
“Having lighted the ghost down the
ladder and thrown her white vestures
after her, Mrs. Munn put a trunk
over the door-trap and retired to dream
of weddings.
After Clarity married Doctor Sheers
people used to say how wonderful it
was that Miss Selina received her
brother-in-law’s second wife so pleas
antly, and how curious it was that
she was so friendly with Mrs. Munn-
We know the bond between them,,
but I believe the story has never been
known to any one but myself until
today.