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MRS.CROWLE'S GHOST. My sister Deborah had always had a ?fency for the house^-a gable-roofed, "broad-porticoed old stone house, standing back from the house in the midst of a square garden and fruit trees. And so ?when, in driving past one day, we saw the . notice "To Let" posted upon the front .,. gate, we alighted and walked up to the graveled pathway to make inquiries. An old negro woman opened the door and showed us into the parlor, v, nen the lady of the house soon appeared. She wns a tall, slender and rather handsome ?woman, with bright, jet-black eyes and hair, and a perfectly clear and colorless complexion. She explained that she was the owner of the house, and had lived here alone with one servant since her husband's death, about two years previous. The house was too large for her use, and she desired to let the main portion of it, re taining the wiug of three rooms for her use. The arrangement and terms suiting ns, we soon came to an agreement, and in less than two weeks thereafter, Deborah and I were quietly established in our new abode, a contented old maid and bachelor. Deborah was ten years older than my -.self, and had ever since my motherless in fancy acted towards me a maternal part "Wo were in what is called independent -circumstances. I had a good business in the city, and, finding my comfort well cared for at home, had been very well contented, and reached my fortieth year ?without having thought much upon the subject of changing my bachelor condi tion. Nor did such a thought seriously present itself until?I may as well confess it?until I had known our landlady, Mrs. Arabella Crowle, long enough to come ander the influence of her fascinations. Under other circumstances, perhaps, it ?might have been different, but being Thrown so frequently into her presence seeing her at first nearly every day, in con nection with certain proposed arrange ments and improvements of the place, and afterwards so often meeting her about twi light accidently in the grounds, whiah by mutual agreement remained open to both iamilies?it was not strange, I thought, that we should have been unconsciously drawn into a closer mutual interest than might have been the case under ordinary ?circumstances. She was not over 30 at most, was clever and agreeable, and had many little bewitching ways and express ions, sometimes lively and sarcastic, some times pathetic and tender, which exer cise over me a peculiar fascination, almost in spite of my own will. And so it came to pass thp.c or ? evening in the twilight, after supper, I with some embarrassment ventured to broaeh to my sister the subject of my marrying the Widow Crowle. Deborah had never particularly fancied her, and she now swept her pet tortoise shell tabby cat out of her lap, and looked at ms aghast "Gracious goodness, Oliver! You don't mean to say that you really?that Bhe? that you are edgaged to marry that woman?" "Not exactly engaged; that is, I have aiever directly asked her to marry me, but she knows?ahem! there Is what may be called an understanding between us." "Understanding!" exclaimed Deborah, indignantly. "In my opinion you've no .understanding whatever in the matter. You don't understand that she's an artful, designing woman, who has probably from the very first been planning and manoeuv ring to get you in her power. You don't understand what her temper or aipualUua or history may be. Now I have heard fhinra from tbj^ neighbors. concerning all ? /uus which i scarcely caredfo repeat to ?you. but which, under present circum stances, it is of course my bounden duty to infom you of." "What things?" I inquired, faintly. ??''First about her temper. She's a terma gant! Look at her eyes! and if you could hear her some days scolding that old black woman, you'd know her better. A nice henpecked husband you'd make! Why, noighbors say it is more than suspected that her husband committed suicide by voluntarily taking the dose of morphine of which he died?driven to it by the life she Jed him And she's quarreled with all her relations?which is the reason she happens to be living so solitary and alone." I pondered Deborah's words. I came to the conclusion that I had been hasty and imprudent, and had made r narrow escape. And thenceforth avoided Ara? ?>ella Crowle. But 6he didn't avoid me. Oh, no. On the contrca-y, sho sought me assiduously. She met me around street corners; she waylaid me in the garden-alleys; and fin ally she went to my office, and directing the clerk to say that a lady wished to see me on business, followed him into my in ner office room, and there majestically de manded to know the meaning of my late -conduct. What could I say?or do? Only deli vsately suggest that she had misunderstood my intentions. Only hint that though it would delight me to remain her good and ?devoted friend, yet that a closer and more intimate tie would scarcely contribute to the happiness of either; and that?But here she interrupted me. "Do I understand," she said, looking straight at me with her black and glitter ing eyes, "that, in so many words, in short, after all that has been said, after all our plans and arrangements in regard to the future, you now decline to keep, your promise to marry me?" "Pardon me; but there was no promise, ?-no positive proposal, on my part. A little fiixtation such as ours-" And then she interrupted mengain, and startled and appalled me with an exhibi tion of that temper which my prudent and penetrating sister had attributed to her. I will not describe the scene; I will not repeat what she said?except the lost words: ' "You will find that I am not one to be trifled with, or to tamely submit to an in sult. I will be revenged! As long as I live I will haunt your life, and make you feel the intiuence of a wronged and in sulted woman-" Here I must have .smUed, for added with a concentrated intensity of patsion?"And even if I die before you do, I will haunt you then! Le 7iiember my v. (ivu3, and be sure of it!'' Then she left the office, and I never again saw her?alive. :. saw her, however, in her coffin the day ?of her funeral, two days after she hod dropped dead of heart disease at a public joucert. Deborah and- I, with a few .leighbors, rode to the cemetery and saw the collie lowered into the grave, and the sod piled npon it. And then the wiug of the house in which she had resided w;is left shut up and silent, occupied only by .the old negro woman, until, as we under .stood, ii reiativo of hers could conic from a distant state to look after the property. I used to think of her sometimes, Walk ing in the garden about twilight, but always with a grateful, trembling sense of the fn~.e which I had escaped. And if the thought of her last threat ever crossed my mind, it was only to be met with a smile, ?jt its childishness and absurdity. So a week or two passed quietly. De borah had "discharged our last servant, and was absorbed in the trying and diffi cult task of finding a new one who would suit. And one morning I returned home wondering whether, the girl just now on trial would have my favorite Sally Lunn properly cooked, or served as' her predo cessor had done?a mass of heavy dough. To my surprise, on my opening the front door, Bridget?that was her name, and the name bespeaks her nationality came hastening up the.kitchen stairs to meet me. "Av ye plnze, there's a leddy waitin' in the librey to see yez. "A lady? What lady?" "Shure she didn't tell me her name. It's quare," she added, in a lower tone, glanc ing toward the library door, "but missu3 was gone out, an' I jist thought I heerd a little bit of a noise, and when I come up, there *!ie was a-stantlin' in the hall wid her bonnet on. She said she wanted to see yez and would wait a while. She's in there now." I opened the library door, but the room was empty. I turned to Bridget, who was lingering in the hall. "There is no one here," I said. The girl came forward, and after staring around and moving the curtains and opening a bookcase, exclaimed: "Howly Mosses! tut what's come o' the leddy, at all? She was in here five min utes ago, and she couldn't a' got out at the 2ront door widout my seein, her." j "What did she look like?" I inquired, i "Faix, she was a tall, slim, nice-looking leddy, wid black eyes an' black hair, an' a white face wid no more red in it than chalk." My own face must have lost its color for I felt a sudden nervous shock, and the blood chilled, as It were, in my veins. "How was she dressed?" I inquired. "Black all over, an' a long crape veil." This was Mrs. Crowle's dress. She had been still in widow's weeds when I knew her. "Bridget," I said, don't mention this to your mistress. It might disturb her. And though I found the Sally Lunn done to perfection, and Deborah came home in an uncommonly good humor, from making certain dry-goods bargains down town, I could not enjoy my tea, and went to bed moody and bewild ered. I could not doubt that Bridget had seen, or fancied she had seen, what she de scribed; and yet what did it all mean? It might indeed have been some other lady than Arabella Crowle; but why should a strange lady call to see me at my home, and how did she enter and leave the house? Three days after this, on entering my my office one morning, my clerk said, briskly: "There was a lady to see you last even ing after you left. She said she would'call again." "What lady ?" I inquired. "Well, I think, it was the lady in a crape i vail who came about a month ago on busi ness, and was so excited when she left. In fact I'm pretty certain it was the same." I suddenly sat down In my office-chair, feeling very faint. "What did she say?" I asked, wiping the starting moisture from my fore head. "Only that she'd call again. I didn't see her till I looked up, and there she was standing inside the glass door. She was was very pale and quiet," continued Gibbs, reflectively, as if mentally contrasting Lliio -auto wlbli Clio vialtor'o fonnor "cvull-o ment." "She looked and moved like a. ghost." "Don't bo a fool, Gibbs," I exclaimed with sudden and unwonted irritation. "There are not such things as ghosts." "I don't know, he answred, with a doubtful shake of his frizzly red head. "I've heard of strange things happening now tmd then. My grandmother?" "Your grandmother be?hanged!" I mut tered under my breath, as I slammed dc wn the lid of my desk, as if by accident, but violently enough to make Gibbs start and forget his ghostly reminiscences. And all that day I was so nervous and excited with watching the office door, and listen ing to the footsteps and voices of the peo ple in the outer room, that I found it im possible to properly attend to business. That evening, after tea, to quiet my ex cited nerves, I walked with Deborah in I the garden, up and down a bowery walk, which was a sort of boundary line be tween our part of the house and that lately occupied by Mrs. Crowle. It was a ! warm, delicious summer ovening, and the scent of roses and jasmine filled the air with fragrance, while the cool white lilies gleamed like silver in the moonlight. Gen eraUy I enjoy these things, but to-night I had no thought for them. A horrible in cubus seemed hanging over my life. Could it be possible that ArabeUa Crowle's vin dictive threat was being fulfllled, and th .t the rest of my life was doomed to be haunted by her gh03t, or spirit, or appar ition, or what ever it might be, which now seemed dogging my daily steps? But ghosts! How weak and foolish I was be coming! Of course I knew that, though I could not explain to myself the mysterious visits which had lately occurred, there could be no such things as ghosts. And with this thought I, with a contemptuous smile, lifted my eyes from tho ground and saw looking over a rose-lodge, ex actly facing me?the ghost of Arabella Crowle! It was only a momentary glimpse, for the next instant the apparition had van ished; but in that moment I saw it plainly in the moonlight. There were the large black eyes fixed upon me, the white, mar ble-like complexion, the well-formed features, the tall, slender figure, all in white, only half of which I had seen above the hedge. It was either Arabelle Crowle, whom I had seen dead and buried, or else her ghost! Dorathy*s exclamation aroused me. "What was that? T thought I saw something white just there! Did you?" "Yes; I?I saw the ghost of Arabella Crowle!" "Good gracious, Oliver! What do you mean?" And then I told her all that I had hither to withheld from her knowledge. She said nothing, but took my arm, and all in a flutter of agitation hurried back to the house, and, on entering, locked and barred the door after us. As if anything could hereafter keep out Arabella Crowle's ghost. I was sitting In my room, unwilling to retire, glancing about and starting at every slight sound, when I heard my sis j ter's vo^ee from the top of the stairs. "Oliver! I don't believe' a word of it! [ That is, 1 don't believe its a ghost!* I'll find out to-morrow." She met me the next evening with a countenance of portentous solemnity, seatiiiK herself opposite me iu the parlor, while Bridget arranged, with more than usual elaborateness, the tea-table in the ! next room. j "Oliver," she commenced, "I 've seen that ghost again." "Where?" I inquired, staring around. 1 ?> She patted me lightly and soothingly on the. shoulder. \ "Over in the nest house?Mrs. Crowle's wing." "Have you been there?" "Yes. I resolved to go over and Inquire ofoldAilsa. She showed me into Mrs. Crowle's parlor, and there, standing all white, right under Arabella Crowle's por trait on *he wall I saw a ghost!" "What did you do??wh-what did it do?" My sister stroked her chin delicately with her forefinger. "I introduced myself, and said I under stood she wished to see my brother on business. To which she assented, and in formed me that she was Isabella Crowle." "You mean Arabella." "I mean Isabella?Miss Isabella Crowle, twin sister of Mrs. Arabella Crowle, who married her cousin, Richard Crowle, and died in this house-six weeks ago," said my sister, with great emphasis and delibera tion. I drew a long breath of "surprise" and relief, though as yet but half realizing the truth. "She wants to see you about the house," continued Deborah, in her most matter-of fact tone and manner. "She wishes us to purchase it. She is her sister's heiress, though I have an idea that Arabella Crowle was no kinder to her than to most'other people. The lady seems a very nice and sensible woman, and I somehow feel interested in her, poor thing! She's, been supporting herself by teachldg in a jjpung ladies' seminary, to which she proposes re turning after vacation." "But?how did she get into the house that 7?" "I had gone out, and Bridget forgot to lock tho hali-door. Miss Cowlc rung twice, and feeling faint with standing in the sun, stepped inside. And us to her leaving, she would have to do that after waiting a half-hour and no one appearing. Bridget isn't accustomed to visitors, and will re quire some teaching. She is going tq.:take tea with us this evening," added Dorothy, with a brisk glance toward the table in the next room. "Take tea with ns? Bridget?" "Miss Crowle of course. I asked her in a friendly, informal 'manner?for she. seemed so lonesome, and we are under the ; same roof, you know, and had paid her no*' attention. She's much better looking than her sister, though so wonderfully like her. Expression makes all the differ ence, you know. I think you will like her." I did like her. I liked her so well that I purchased the house which she was so desirous to sell; and, after that, my liking increased so much that 'I installed her I therein as its mistress. Neither Deborah j nor I have ever regretted the step;*but we naver allude to either Arabella Crowle or her ghost, nor is my wife to this day aware that on her first moonlight ramble j in the old garden, attired, in a cool whit<* | dress, she was taken for the apparition Oi her sister.?S. A. Weiss in Prank Leslie. Cheated by a Wicked Partner.-. "Do you know what is ruining this coun try?" said Judge Bluker. "I will tell you. It is not overproduction, but it ds the dis honesty of the people that destroys public and private confidence. I'll give you an example of dishonesty practiced upon me by a party named Jimpleson. Ho ca$fie to my house one day and told me that he'had one of tho best schemes in the world; said that he had a gold mine not far awayy'and said that if he only had a little gold with which to salt it he could sell the claim for Sinn.nnn He was so plausible, talked so fairly, that I was completely i?i?u?l l went with him and looked at tft? mW?-, 'I was in need of about 850,000, so I con cluded to let him havo the gold. He said that ho could take a gold piece, carefully grate it, off, and so skillfully imbed it in tiie sand that no one could detect our scheme. 'How much gold will it take?' I asked. "'Oh, about $300. I can take that amount and make tho place worth ?150,000 to us.'" "I gave the money, and he got a grater and went oat to the mines. Several days afterward he invited mo to come out He had done his work well. Wo invited cap italists to come and make us a bid. My partner was not present when an assay was made. Good thing for him that he wasn't. He had salted tho mine with cop per dust and had kept tho gold. I havo not see him since. Now, don't you see I lost confidence in him. He is not an hon est man".? Arkansaw Traveler. The Cockles of the Heart. Mr. Thomas S. Clarko sends us a plausi ble explanation of the expression "warm ing the cockles of tho heart" Ho says that in the counties of Kent and Essex, England, the phrase is commonly used and is invariably applied to the pleasures of eating aud drinking. When he was a schoolboy Mr. Clarke heard it explained that tho right and left auricles of the heart were supposed to resemble in appearance the cockle or shellfish found in that part of the kingdom; from this luncied resem blance arose the phrase "cockles of tho heart," meaning the two shell-like divis ions, or auricles, of the heart "So," say3 Mr. Clarke, "upon taking a drink or upon feasting on highly spiced viands, the cockles of the heart received the first pleas urable impression, and so it was that the whole heart was speedly set aglow."? Chicago News. Whero "Tecump" Got His Name. Gen. Sherman's middlo naroa, "Tecum seh," ho owes to his father, wao had re moved to Ohio just before the war of 1S13 with the British and Indians, and, in spite of Indian depredations, "seems to have caught a fancy for the great chief of the Shawnees." In the new edition of his life, Gen. Sherman says that his father had tried for years to get one of his sons named "Tecumseh," but that he did not succeed until his mother had named a son foreftch other brothers. Then she ran out of names, and Judge Sherman had his way.?Inter Ocean. What ail Aeronaut Once Saw. Aeronaut AVells, of Indianapolis, says that he once made an ascent from Buenos Ayres, and while far above the La Plata river saw the sun set. Soon after the wind censed and the balloon went down to tho water. He threw out all ballast, and then, sitting in the hoop, cut away the car. At this the balloon shot up to such a height that the sun, which had set hours before to the persons below him, again appeared. The effect was ;is if the sun was rising in the west?Chicago Journal. The Gift of Extemporaneous Speech. The gift of extemporaneous speech is a dangerous one, and if made too much of, is likely to produce shallow preaching. 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