Show y 00 91 1 r 0 I 1 the old house 09 0 I 1 0 0 a on romney marsh col 00 1 N 0 by hezakiah butterworth 06 9 0 www copyright laj lcj b bv v li chiate butter worth a rth 3 PART 1 I we nad been N an dering through boa ton ts unit and I 1 had bad been pointing victor the remains remain interesting out to my of 0 old boston or or of boston town of the esst century that can bo be seen today M W is had a been to 6 that place m here the old 0 province house stood and had found in a narrow alley just oft washington street with liy its durrs ing crowds a tilt bit of brick anti and mortar that formed a 6 part of the ma mansion of the toll tn royal royo governors on as preset ibid 1 in I ilam haw twice told toles in con nith ft ath the house of bygone by gone glonde vr and mysteries no me held had spoken of it the strange talon tales a oc sir william phipps mid d of t the province housse house indian the latter aa a famous vane van now at aldge H forms farms that leered in the air in the days daya of at provincial pros portly loore purchased cd tile the indian bald aid ray my friend dr bon ben perley ile he stocked blocked Ms its rambling house at hill I 1 farms arnis wild iueli ad nd N new ew j si giand relics lie ho had bad a mind that red fed upon the pa past be that mad the few dorid in the 01 old 1 did inlew r occur to IOU ou my friend that boards have souls what do you mean dr wintle wince lissim lio iise timber of 0 houses old furniture pictures and such auch things all material t fill sirs where families nUl have lived at anra bodies a ot the past they also hold tile the spirit of 0 tile the I 1 p bat Is t like statu natural r ill tel iest dhonis 9 intense nion tle acnia onto of family his toss orv are re indrea a c 3 upon them he grew earnest talking loud on tile Cr crowded oded street DA an ve me pasted along toward rd the 01 old 1 ats plate te house alch to Is all 11 supposed posed to bf be haunted by tile the goodly odly pre ence at 0 sam tire adams if s a board in an old house houie had been struck avith a hanin nr hi he continued the impression is IK loft upon it it 1 a secret tragedy had best happened in a room the timber limber boards furniture in that room the impression of it an nd d reveal it to sensitive natures nature in vague va gue rind and mysterious N a ys as natural telephone to supersensitive people or people in some borne supersensitive condition of 0 mind in wakeful hours of the night or in the first coining at 0 consciousness in n the early tri morning orning or in the iho condition of dreams tho the active events of the past Is history 1 story of rooms reappears ghost stories arise in that 1 may a Y doctor Wint leho u a e said paid I 1 you interi tn how st range it Is that you should slime introduce to mo me such a subject us as this in a eroded street when I 1 hale hae in mind 9 a mystery that to Is gl eang ing me some pome decre t trouble that completely banies baffles your theory he how V 1 I am spending the all summer anmer in a now house at revere on a hill overlooking overlook lne ohp th P IM and were it an ou house I 1 avoult r any aay that it Is the abode ot of some b baleful influence ile he seemed to hp be ot at once interested la in tile tho subject that I 1 had bad introduced doctor you yen know ahat my views vies Is re of such auch phenomena there them never was as a khoat ghost in the world dead people ople do not reappear eaf in buttons ioup I 1 in factories and cloth woven movers in looms or in le leather a ther and steeple hats A ar to you sure pure of that said eald ill mo doctor docto he con t inked 1 I am a d of kant and berkley and hold all life to be unreal there are arc no such puch tiling things as time anil and it pace for there never was as a if time me when there wa man not a time before it and it if I 1 were to take I 1 iou 0 u to the end cad of space what bould b be f you ou spec space a there never nver could be a that was not Bt started artel by game other motion A powerful poa pon erful macro scope ficone would reveal our bodies as AJ part clex alc floating by an attraction in an m 0 dhere of their 0 n our reason ts Is I 1 ill pion all the that ve me I 1 i recelle receive through the sennes are ern pirl cal al and 1 in life li in universal ind and c terms sensitive people and peo pie in IL a state in all places and has ihnow lae hale seen man beings in forms form in fr which ilione baingi b lne onto ono art ap but here we are at the bild isaio hoube under the lion and the inicis iivo s v 41 celil th the alj ld room no fill a inn X tm nm As AR I 1 laid my hand on the ancient mantel I 1 paid ai 1 I dont dant know how it I 1 doctor octor rt but I 1 never BMW come here that I 1 don C t seem to i fert feel the of old sani sam adams tn in the it biem to wear the rooms as clothing I 1 once lacked the tha resolution to lo do a certain thing and icamen I 1 here her and nd sat eat down in th a council chamber I 1 the he room amed to have I 1 anul I 1 should fancy that I 1 could me iwo sam ad arns rn balking to and fro with hands bands behind him that I 1 could bear his olce toe out am it did in the bresnee pre of the I 1 royal governor sir tf if you ba haie e power ho to remove one regiment clment ni you have pow power ato to remove two and we demand that hoth both regiments n alit shall ahall be sent out ot of the 1 streets of 0 boston t town own RO he once old ald to the e ot of goes gen gage who came to bri a ll 11 him ond and told hirn that the time ahad cc come for or him to make his bl peace kh the king sir I 1 front that thai I 1 hale tir ago age made my PAM res alfh tho th ring Z I 1 of kings and no power on earth shell shall we ever make me recreant to my duties ditties to my country now strange ns its li it may beem I 1 never sit down in this thin council chamber anti anil think of 0 the past that it docal not give mo me new flew resolution I 1 of if course ll it does heroic souls hyp notise at I 1 ze rooms and places my fiend you would 0 aid receive the same game Imp impression from thin loom the same resolute and inspiring in fluence if lou on did not know lla its history to touch that old mould be an inspiration to any mind in a sensitive state you are 9 a sensitive I 1 see let jl us sit dom down n lv we e sat at don donn Is in tho the hospitable cho chairs irs of F the h e venerable council chamber Wan washington hington had bad stood in tho the window before mp me and from the hie same 1 v lasdow it it in probable that the declaration of 0 1 waft 0 first lend cad publicly lit in boston tom town n behind us up in another room was mas I 1 lie famous window and the little balcony from aich which kings and roal goi ei non wore proclaimed tho the past with nith ito its changes political excite mems t it and d angshed ani shed forms seemed to rist rise before n Poc doctor tor mold ald 1 poorly nearly ell all tile the states cron and great creul figures of oc tile Colon colonial lal period have sat pat down donn in this room its but s to mo me and it ban lia been the od cost case 01 old sent sam adams ahe vho it called tho lat last of the puritans Furl tana itans more than all the others to pon wa I 1 eab tile roum rom that 14 because he probably had tile the moyt in dist po powerful erful soul that evor ever was waa in tho is a room and lie was waa accustomed to malt sit it in his s when his mind II 11 ie I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 tm ill I 1 1 I I 1 N I 1 lt 9 ali I 1 IT F irl A ts 4 II 11 0 1 I 1 L 1 I 1 i IV I 1 I 1 I 1 it il ill 1 1 1 i washington had stood lit in the window was in a state of division decision the room holds his soul like a a telephone did IOU ou ever hear a megaphone bing yes see doctor and who among the voices that the mop in oP aphone lIone produced sang pang the iho cleare crl st the tenor doctor leht the soul of old sam adams la Is the tenor that this room holds for or the eals cais of the sensitive people more coming and going men with guide books bookil women with sith children ch lidren by the else hand strangers we idle visitors but mot most of 0 them as they appeared from the th rooms of the antiquarian curiosities ital ties spent to have a feeling of lev reverence arence and re awe as they stood tn in the I 1 door of this room I 1 could but notice the change of spirit that came into the faces of some of these theae casual visitors filters an all they passed parsed me their steps were vere slow their brows bron there was mas in the place uplifted the thoughts that responded to that N which aich m was as noblest in the soul I 1 waa an disposed to accept the doc doctors doctora torR theory thi ory when ben the very strange experience fience through abich w alch I 1 had been passing one came 1 bk to rny my mind i doctor said L your items may have some force but I 1 hae hac 1 I 1 4 1 r t I 1 I 1 1 ls II 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 X N I 1 it J s 4 1 f 0 1 L L f I 1 U 4 4 Z I 1 ft is 7 I 1 I 1 a ir the room grows grow suddenly light as 23 ho comes in my mind now a story to tell aou ou that ft mill make clear to you that theme mysteries are ar merely inertly things ot of the linail nation doctor it if over fv r a man anan lived in a house that hat could he bald to b be ba haunted I 1 am doing pa now that house is s A ile new A an fn 0 tt it vaa mas built only last lam year my aunt anti I 1 are am the first ahot eer er 11 pit there ahot bae ion ou seen there chero doctor doat or yu yen may think roc me diner dered in mind but a man with mith a crocked back as ot of another generation comly to 10 me rn at night thi the room grawi grown a u adde n ly im lie u conic comes it la Is wry early m orning morning light thit that to bo be there much light an 04 cornea comes in tile the breaking of ado a day y in juno jun that t in not stran sze darkness in 1 full 0 of parti clea cl 0 of light we see bee math lih vur our inner allon darkness and light the soul may have light in darkness but how IOB does the man look hurry he keeps saying 11 1 I must burry brry 1 lie U carries a harn hammer mer anat mh does he do lie he pounds brick there are no brick in your room no a doctor but till strange betas being alli bl li 1 1 nightly see ee just junt ai I 1 am about to jr aft 4 aen 0 hats biml n I 1 nm in vakle king up lip jut just as I 1 seem to b bf losing cost con c toll ness or to lo he be raining it again onto and 9 axa 8 A limur hu be ap pears in tile room lie carries will him always a hammer and hi to pounds 1 brial TO tin CONTINUED |