Show am bmw the latest ghost story recently it Is said an army captain a quiet thickset thick set levelheaded level headed man inan with a clear e ee e a strong will and common sense went to dine with some lady friends at an old dutch manor house at in south africa on his arrival he was startled by the appearance on the veranda of a huddled up tip old woman with a long yellow face and thin lips and later on in the evening evenin gt when after some sonic music in the drawing room he returned to the dining room for a whisky and soda he noticed that a half length portrait hanging on the wall was swaying from side to side with a slow deliberate swing and that the eyes of the man it represented were watching him enviously then it seemed to the cap captain tain that a fog or mist was rising in the room it crept up and up tip till it reached his chin and then with a shiver of wild terror he felt t two 0 hands fasten on his throat hands with thin yet muscular fingers that clutched ever tight er if growing in strength as they 1 materialized and the man of the portrait hanging clear of the gather ing mist still watched him with an evil leer with an effort he managed to get away away but again as ho he hurried from the house ho he was startled by tho the visions of the old yellow faced woman on the following morning he be heard that his friends had left the house and one of them declared that she had been nearly strangled in the night afterward the captain discovered that the house for some time had been used as a temporary hospital and two of the sick who had been placed in the dining room bad had screamed for help during the night imploring their attendants to take them away as some one had tried to choke them from local inquiries abo captain learned that the amiable gentleman whose whoso portrait had brought him so strange an experience had hanged himself about 1810 after strangling his young youngest sst daughter in the dining room von holtz was his name and the tile legend of the tragedy is still whis pared in the district i |