| Show STU d IN THE BW COLUMBIA university SPECTER FRIGHTENS THE WOMAN LIBRARIAN SEEN CRAWLING UP THE WALL spook Is 1 discovered by index boy who shuna shu ns gallery aft r six P M students of occult watching for it new york columbia university holds that ghost may be dis missed with a laugh until an aducat ed cd nice old gentlemanly ghost gets to hovering round Col columbia s library building of nights in other words there Is an undeniable ghost in co lumblad s law libian and as the t he un der graduates say What dye know about that three weeks ago the century club of third street borrowed four alts atts of the columbia law library to hang in a portrait exhibition they wre vere the alts of chancellor rob ert E 11 LIN livingston Ingston chancellor kant kf nt theodore theodora dwight columbia Col s old law professor and charles al de costa lovingly at the university for a wad of money he bequeathed it all four came back about two weeks ago in ill good condition except the de costs coeta picture which had bad a check or two tao on its varnish the century club being notified took the canvas to a re storer leaving where of old the por trait used to iring hing a bright gheen spot on the otherwise faded green burlap wall das ago at 6 p in john henry the library a card index boa bo blushed from the library miss alles acox the assistant librarian call cai aured him not again walled wailed john through his big chattering teeth I 1 don t t go in there no more there a a man ablin ci on oil the wall where the picture vaa aas I 1 don t go back foi no money miss cox entered the library full of be scornful unbelief and turned on the electrics all was as it should be a bright green oblong on a faded green ground with mith a book gallery bunnin lunning 9 below it and suddenly a peal of laughter broke brok e in the room and two cases of books book a A nice gentlemanly ghost inhabit the library on either cither side of the picture spot emptied their contents vi with ith a crash when miss hilse cox found heiselt heisele tn in the outer hall john henry had bad gone in the morning a watchman reported to dean Kirch kirchmer mey that a kind of 0 a glow had bad been visible through the glass doors of the room all night I 1 only a few summer and condl tinned students haunt the library these days that evening at six as before one of them prow prowling ling for a hook book la in the half light of an upper tipper gal lery heard beard the scratch of a pen writ ing writing lie he traced it to the olive green oh ob long on an the blank wall and marched at anee once the pen a ceased but as he stood before tho the plo pie ture spot there rose flow the floor a prodigious hollow sigh elgh the student ran with a classmate he returned to the library on tiptoe the room was va cant but on the haunted picture spot there glowed an outline ot of the features that once adorned it rimmed with a phosphorescent frame As the youths stared blared the fate face and frame dissolved and the bent figure of a man came out upon the gallery scurried to the furth est eat wall and blended bended with the books As aa lie he vanished they the heard beard a sigh elgh the ap apparition picture the fleeting figure lu in the galleries and the hollow sigh have bave become commonplace now even john henry the tha card index au socrat enters the ilie library Aith without fear in ii the daytime day time for scholarly columbia Is taking its ita ghost in a cold scholastic scholasti cl walt and already hiu his nightly walk scho duffil for six 0 clock i evenings from which hour the ghost has not deviated an aa lota prof it Ls la understood is OT on the job with other students of the occult and nd will conduit a series ot of ex perl peri menta ments with the ghost and the ghost A picture possibly 4 it Is said he my may adow science with it 1 paul pam ahll in abe meantime in the daytime last years canned students ts continue to work of oc conditions john henry heary aluf alex the cho index cards and mists cox on cameli adaist adast law book j h |
