Show A HAUNTED HOUSE coff atory of her aloa lu Loa ilou iu everyday talk bosina wai and tho yo across the footlights big honest eyes the same drolly atao cato the eliat fluffy mano of hair au ho matter of her speech was quito ae any licea her playwrights play wrighta over set down for her lug it is a pity aiho never told across tho footlights for all tho world to hear the told to a favored few the family eho said had returned to london from provincial tour and intending for the decided to hire a house in preference to fabiny lodgings they looked upon it miraculous inch to find a house iu an eminently agreeable neigh at a phenomenally lowrett low reut beey soon out tee reason A particularly ticul arly shocking hod been committed in tho house a few years before and since then it bad stood untenanted its evil reputation intensifying with every night ita dark windows gloomed upon tho else cheerful street but it was a lovely comfortable house said bosina and wo mind its story a bit in fact we thought it rather distinguished than otherwise and as for shooks spooks wod all played cm too often in christmas pantomimes to hold em in any especial awe besides we never baw any nothing I 1 give you my word more fearsome than a black beetle ever crossed our paths in that maligned houge but for all that a more uncomfortable three months our happy go lucky family never spent the neighbors gave tho house a bad name nad hanged it they took the attitude that any one willing to live in a murder stained house was simply an accessory after tho fact my dears never beall I 1 forget tho first morning I 1 called on the local butcher with a plea for chops send to street piped I 1 cheerily the butcher turned duskily palo he edged behind his block ho glowered at me over it three forty three you said mum ho gasped man alive yes said L wo live there and were not ghost or we need chops well thelong and short of it was wo could get nothing bent aliat ordered at high hoon and then the butchers boy had a way of firing up the tho bottom of the steps want to como within grabbing dia tance of the door apparently that was hard on the provisions especially the eggs no milkman would deliver milk in the gray of the morning not he I 1 wo had subsequently to bring it home in can when the water pipes burst we had to cm our stockings while the boys scoured london for a plumber rash enough to cross our fated threshold we lived like dobinson Ko binson crushes on a densely populated island it was borne in upon us at bodt that etwas a pity so much wholesome terror should ao to waste bo ho last few days of our stay there we took to burning blue lights at midnight in the area window and emitting hollow groans from the front cellar 1 I fancy our landlord reaped the result light minded conduct wo never inquired joslon transcript |