Show Echoes from the dustA dust r- r A French ghost i from the Dust feature selected from the files flies of the 11 tl Express and printed as asIt asif asit It if it appeared on the date noted at atthe atthe th the top of each Mch feature K 4 v Septembers September 1896 tl haunted house near Montereau Montereau Mon Mon- throws people Into rm h V THE TIIE reports published In Inthe Intile tile the Paris press are to be credited a house at t Vallence Vallence- e Brie near Montereau is the scene ne of curious or oro o ut the exploits of a very clever practical joker It II appears that the supposed ghosts Instead of 11 making aking their presence felt at night do so in broad daylight it iU iL is said generally about 6 o o'clock lock though hough they upset furniture open locked lacked doors shatter windows s and generally behave in injia ina a most boisterous fashion what c creates eates the greatest astonishment is the voice which shouts out all sorts of I f frivolous remarks mingled i i with abuse and insults This I v voice ce has as been heard not only bythe inmates of the house the 1 family of Lebegue but also by byI 1 I some gendarmes who were I summoned to discover the ghost orb or unpractical practical joker When they ar arrived ived the voice according to the declaration of the police commissary greeted them by byI I shouting 11 Ah you had better i out of here ere you with your yourI I dirty boots i The police commissary is however very far far from II believing in any supernatural m manifestations and all the them themore themore m more more re so because no voice was he heard rd while he and his policemen occupied the house during the whole evening and night Mme Lebegue who is an anin in invalid alid lid is is of course much disturbed by all the noise but persons v who ho hear it if the most oft often n arc are her daughter i Ch Charlotte and the young seri servant ser ser- i va vant a t ti i 1 1 I WAS VAS told that the other I day Mme l Lebegue in her bed said she was thirsty and t that t I 1 immediately the voice shouted vur C tte f i Iu cr t ji ing to to drink The little girl it seems wa sva was not alarmed at the voice wh which which ch she hears constantly As Asfor Asfor Asfor for the fhe servant she seems to be beon beon beon on almost friendly terms with the voice and ana that the only thing that annoys he her is that she has has' to put the furniture in order after after it has been thrown about by some Invisible agency The person who is the most persecuted persecuted persecuted per per- by the voice Is young Lebegue a lad of or 15 It Ills is said that when the voice is questioned by him it replies i 1 am Prince I belong to toa toa toa a high Russian family And hen whenever Ver anyone Inquires where he is the voice invariably invariably invariably in in- variably replies I am at Marseilles To the objection that in that case he is not at al Valence en the answer comes Oh that tt Is no matter I Ican Ican ican can be at M Marseilles and here too IK un PATE PATEl who attends Mme Lebegue has heard the voice and is one of those who seems to be the most impressed by Its unaccountable character In relating his experience he said I have heard the voice myself and that several times like everybody else here It used most and insulting expressions Every time I 1 heard it III I advanced toward the corner the wall or spot whence the voice seemed to issue but I could never could never discover anything although I made minute searches to find a crack a hole or opening through which it might have reached my ears You will admit that it is strange And how can you explain explain explain ex ex- ex- ex plain the furniture upset in hermetically closed rooms And please note that tha t the fact of the panes of glass that have been shattered all were not exposed to stones thrown from outside Some of them are in the passage which could not be reached from out of I must co confess fess that there is something in the affair but what it is I cannot cannot imagine RI M. DELORME a neighbor has also frequently heard the v voice ice Though he cannot discover who it is he is Inclined to to believe it is a trick of a ventriloquist As for the furniture furniture furniture fur fur- thrown about he thinks it must be the work of some practical joker though he has not been discovered In the meanwhile however the excitement excitement ex ex- created at Valence-en- Valence Brie by the mysterious voice Ind l a upset f rl lt s spread ii ig kept informed by th the journals is not satisfied with the police commissary com com- commissary who says it must be bethe bethe bethe the work of a practical joker If that be the case and as there is some disturbance of public order it is the duty of the police to to arrest the perpetrators and not to indulge in idle talk |