Show I GHOST GIVES CLEW 7 I TO HIDDEN PAPER I TENANT EXPLORES PLACE TO WHICH SPECTRAL HAND HAD POINTED NIGHTLY C DISCOVERY REVIVES STORY i Figure of Woman Clad In Red Chintz I Appeared Promptly at Midnight Old Document Found Under Eaves LondonAn ancient farmhouse In Golden Drove standing alone on the levels of Thornoy Fen ten miles outside out-side Peterborough has been believed for generations by the superstitious fen folk to bo haunted Tho memories of tho ghost have been revived by tho discovery by Mr Bcttlnson tho present tenant of a parchment relating to the disposal of tho estate valued at ten thousands of pounds of one John Cave who died i i there over a century ago j r Tho story inns that a spectral worn i j I an clad In red chintz was accustomed I to appear punctually at midnight in the ghost chamber of tho farmhouse i farm-house and then to point to the ceiling I above which the document was found Mr and Mrs Hettlnson havo only lived In tho house threo years but I before that It was occupied by a family fam-ily named Fullard who wore related I by marriage to tho Caves I Mr Bettlnson heard strango noises I and anxious to ascertain their cause climbed up through a trap door under the slanting roof and while rummaging rummag-ing about among tho beams found the parchment under a pleco of loose wood At first Mr Bettlnson thought It was a will owing to its phraseology and the references to last will and testament testa-ment with the mention of valuable goods and chattels But experts who have seen it declare It to bo tho ancient grant of piobate by tho Archbishop Arch-bishop of Canterbury once attached to the will of John Cave When the tidings of this discovery spread two womenMiss Morris and Mrs Hussell living in the village of Thorney were much interested for they had often told of their supernatural supernat-ural experiences in tho very house I know I could not be mistaken Miss Morris said and now that I have heard of the discovery of this document I am sure what I saw was really a ghost When tho Fullardb Mrs Fullard was a granddaughter of John Cave were living I often stayed at tho house but I slept in tho ghost chamber cham-ber only I once I went to bed early but I could not go to sleep and I remember well It was a moonlight night with every UUUu I thing as clear as day Then as midnight mid-night chimed I turned In the great bed In fear for I felt tlrore was some terrible thing In the loom I had locked the bedroom door and I told myself nobody could possibly bo there and then I boldly I turned to look I It Is a wonder I did not die of flight for there b > my bedside stood the form of an old woman nearly SO very thin and gray And what seemed to mo most tcirible she had only one tooth which projected Sho had on her head a lacefrilled cap such as old women wear and she wore a garment of red chintz oldfashioned largepat terned cretonne When I first saw her she held her thin hands clasped low down as though In grief but as I watched she raised her right hand and pointed at I the ceiling Then I put my head under i the clothes and when I dared to look again sho was gone I could not sleep and next morning II morn-ing I told my hostess I was ill and could not stop and I was driven straight homo Others I have heard ran tell of uncanny noises at night I there tho sound of corn being shaken in a slovo by old John Cave himself A similar story was told by Mrs Hussell I went to tho house she said asa as-a dressmaker to make costumes for tho Misses Fullard As there were many guests I was asked If I had any objection to sleeping In what I now know to have been tho ghost chamber cham-ber I lay awake until at tho first stroke of 12 I heard heavy footsteps on tho stairs Then I felt It near I heard It rat tlo at tho door and I felt It near me There was a sound of something being shaken and I shrieked I am sure my visitor was neither animal nor human It was a being from another world I never tried to sleep there again I had never believed lu ghosts but I cannot explain my experience by any other theory Mr Bettlnson however Is no believer er In ghosts I certainly heard noises and wailings wail-ings he said but I think they wero only rats and mice and badtempered disturbed owls When I went up LO look I did not expect to find a parchment for no ghosts have ever como to tell mo their troubles The document which Is dated thirteenth thir-teenth of Slay in tho year of our Lord ono thousand seven hundred and nine tyseven has lost the heavy seals which should bo attached As a family document and a record of tho lime when the probate was in the hands of tho primate It Is of great interest But tho mystery of its hiding hid-ing and the spectral woman in chintz will probably never bo solved |