Show THE LOYELOIIN MAID The Drawers v7ero Dot At fall a nperlI tloui rnnlly Had they hero they would lime movnl to theoltyund taken oust when the father Mini instead cf cuing to tliat rumshockle old house at Coincck It wo a lovely oldhouse without doubt hut Well Mr I lirourr din the house up co that It would do to live In for awhile at any rite until Utter limn should oomc nnd they had furniture enough to mike thorn comfortable Grandfather llrowcr duclnnd that he didnt cure far even a bed when ho had his v hctl chair and In fact tiny Ono of the family would have been coil tint to deep In It lids wonderful chair was o patent ono and when grandfather was not inhibit or tho twins were not punning each other RtollOllln II OJ Achanclaacar nfl tlmn 11O 1118 Jour legs I wife allowed to stand upon tho floor the whixl legs elllglaed l under tho rent so that they would not be In tho my Ihlswnsnll that was wonderful won-derful about rjrflndfnlhprs chair except that It vine IOVfrcd with fine soft leather and not Gnu cf Ibo A prlngs was broken It stood l In tho corner ot file sitting room nearest tho buy window whin not In use and woo quit Oil ornnnl At you may have I Inferred from what I Late will tile lirowirs hud very little money and In consequence they had to condense themselves ns It were to fit that IKirt of the hmiM which was lurnltifd The sitting room was n large square room and three bedrooms and tho nursery opened Into It Mr nnd Mrs Drawer had one room Tony mail nell another grandfather grand-father the third And Emily slept In the nuricry with tho twlcs iprylliiuK went on wry smoothly In tho Ilro cr liooschold Until ono night Kmlly commenced to bear noises They were queer DoNes that Boomed te coins front the fllllog room and else couldnt Just account for them In the slitpy Flitito 01 her sen < esat file time but mile vflKiit nfrnld oh no So oho did not mention the fact to the fnmlly tint she hall lJtoeo kept awake nearly nil night by otmns oollnd Hot tho rclres were really there for Tony and Hen announced ono morning that tho house must bo blunted us they had heard such pccnll whizzing pounds during the night It wasnt long before Ibo whole family titillation aware that something some-thing that lnsn t TlBllle In tho daylight occupied I tho sitting room at night Jf Its a person said Ben Ill fix hIm And that night ho tied cords In many different positions About fout Above the Moor hoping to trip up tho Intruder Until he I olapected I te Lear a loud thump from the falling of a hoary body which had 1eell l tripped by the coral ho was dU I appolntvd All the hound that was heard nin the wmo old whlrnhlulng thai they nil know by heart now Spirits hinteI any darkly the next day when they found that the cords hud not been touched And Kmlly who was of a very sentimental senti-mental turn of mind wove n cad romance about n beautiful girl who had Hied thcro runny jiars ago when the houso was new The buiullful plrl according to Emilys tale had U ml l Vixxxl I and won by n dashIng dash-Ing soldier who had I to leave his promised bride And taW nil Ms duty on file battlefield battle-field The I Ktrlluul prorated not to mourn In Ids abscnaiand set herself to work to make her widulng garments fco site Rat nt her wheel and hUed nway the weary hours spinning and 1 weaving nnd thinking think-ing of her Holdlrr I lover I f I For long tluio ho kop this up sing I Ing blithely at first and Kitting tho win dowwhcro she could latch the first jzlimpfco of his return Diy after dn11 her singing grew weaker as her lover fulled to conic and btforo her wedding garments were finished her singing had been hushed her work dropped and slid 1 land died The whirring nnd whizzing noble rmlly do elated was the gbostot beautiful maid working her wheel to haso I her roIIDg irarrnenta llnUhed by tho time the dallying lover turned up Jlr and Mrs Browcr didnt try to toho tho problem In any such way us this lucy said that oven In tho best built houses queer nolsenvircro often licariland they must expect It In that uld bc aramlfathir was very much Interested In tho nolle and ho told Kinlly ho thought rtr solution was captivating and bo intruded in-truded l to leave the lamp burning In the sitting room nnd eco for himself the ghostly ghost-ly maiden at her spinning wheel That night he left n light In tho sitting tt IJ mom In Order that be Might keep watell I and the next rooming announced that ho had Ffllvtt l tho mystery ill I you tltall stay awake tonight you I will probably fee the ghost too said grandfather Mysteriously and consequently conse-quently the children inch took a nap In Ibo afternoon and drank n cupful of strong toffee In tho onitijthe latter Without Dill viiillaies knowlcdA r osit ioamio sayto keep them awnke MIhO r The watting wait very tedious and II must havo been about 12 oclock the tim all well regulated ghosts make their ap enranoe when grandfather whlnpcred till There site Is I newt And In 0 rulnuto six pairs of eyes were directed through tint door into the sitting room IIE Whcwr whispered Kmlly r dont 100 laer11 Then grandfather jointed to the corner near the window where his patent chair stood and there was what do you sup po lWith 110With a whli z 2 and it whir r r the wheals ot the patent chair wero rapidly ro ohlng imo aftir the other as n little inousta ran Around them III the manner 01 it squirrel eicrclslug on the wheel In his mile The mouso was having Iho best kind 01 atinaefirstonotiewheel aDd infamb oolhr I ThervIs your lovelnrn maldensphiming 1lIIlIr Said Wllndrthc and thero are your spirits lien That iiousj cortallll 119 1 laisto to pmfer my chair as miijolaul fi ooJ rh r o Im ruro I holv he derives grcllt JeocJt from blagllOoatlumEx Change |