Show GHOST MEETS GHOST by MOLLY mcmaster copy copyright right 1915 by the mcclure newana nejapa per syndicate doreen sighed heavily as aa she walked away from the little long island home on which she As had so set her heart it had been taken by a couple from the city not two hours before the lease was signed the real estate agent had shown it to doreen the while he lamented her keen disappointment never mind ho he added trying to mitigate her loss fir vale Is haunted by tearful fearful specters that wall about among these fir trees and perpetrate ghostly tricks on the minds of 0 the tenants but did you not warn this couple asked doreen with 1 ft shade of 0 hope in her eyes because she was not afraid of ghosts oh yes certainly I 1 did but they rather fancied the idea of at seeing a real live ghost they said city people seldom got a chance at anything so exciting doreen sniffed at the cold blooded lack of imagination and walked slowly back to her own cottage that lay jay back to back with fir vale and did not face the blue water of the sound she did not know that a second applicant tor for fir vale entered the real estate office even before her footsteps had died away in the distance A young man more keenly disappointed than doreen left the agent after having been shown the lease signed by the fortunate couple from the city they wont consider themselves lucky by the time I 1 have become a ghost and haunted them into ghostly tears fears of insanity and longings for erless city flats muttered jimmy darker barker as he made his frustrated way way back to his own abode jimmy boarded in a sort of farmhouse and was sick of boarding he wanted fir vale and ho he wanted it badly it was the only cottage in all his days that made jimmy darker barker plan hideous tricks the new couple had scarcely settled in fir vale before the specter of imagination began to wall about the fir shadowed property A restless spirit floated about fleeing from its own fright it seemed to the ghost that ar never 11 before had a harmless bit ot of garden been so charged with nerve racking sounds her diaphanous white robes for it was a female ghost seemed ever to be clutched by unseen hands twigs underneath her feet snapped ped ind and from time to time a cone dropped from the branches overhead and dragged a swiftly stifled scream from rom tha a g ghosts os s lips ps doreen oreen wished she possessed greater courage for her ghostly maneuvers tor for the success of her purpose she was drawing a deep breath preparatory to malting making a brave effort at haunting when a gruesome and d frightful specter had loomed up at her very elbow and the lurid blue light in its waving hand burned with sinister glow doreen after her one glance swayed and knew no more until she felt herself held firmly in fit muscular arms and heard the laborious breathing of a human being she stirred and tried to peer through rough the thickness of her veils but all she saw was more white veils you are not a ghost host then she questioned when sho she felt reasonably confident of an answer in the negative great scott you gave me an awful I 1 fright jimmy parker said and mopped aped his brow with a portion of mo his ghostly raiment what in the deuce are you doing prowling about in this dark garden he be questioned wishing lie be aoud get a look at her face it if you want to know tho the truth she told him with a soft laugh that jimmy found most charming 1 I am simply trying to haunt these people out of that new home I 1 want it so badly that I 1 am going to wait about this property until they get out for fear of losing their minds jimmy laughed and drew a trifle nearer the other ghost two haunts would certainly move them quicker than one dont you think so now I 1 have come here with the same evil intentions as yourself so the best we can do Is to join forces and do our haunting together doreen certainly wanted the presence of 0 a strong amstrong muscular man he would never see her face to face and they would always bo be strangers so why hesitate night after night they performed their most ghostly tricks but the couple within maintained a i comfortable unimaginative sense of security it Is very strange jimmy was saying on one of the trips to a fallen tree that nightly became more prolonged while haunting was forgotten 1 I seem to be in love with you but at the same time he paused a moment hesitating to continue 1 I am desperately interested in a girl I 1 have met in the world of society do you happen to lenow know her doreen woodward I 1 cannot tell her I 1 love her because you always come in between us I 1 think I 1 am losing my mind over the two of you and I 1 have met one jimmy darker barker at dances and on the beach and in society laughed the tha girl softly 1 I wonder it if you happen to know him doreen darling jimmy dear the veils of the ghosts were for tho the first time swept aside I 1 M iaal |