Show THE GHOST OF GUINEY MANOR A new now yem story by arthur J stringer ORD mil and I 1 had W hern been the til bet lint of at friends forem ory Alt louth all artist ly pros clou be b wai was as i boe fine 0 a fellow ai its yaa you would care to know ft bat WB was even tea more ma table lie he alway always paid his til bill bills for rot kome some week weeks beta bedora to new fear years L 0 bad had been boring me m about a dated 1 old minor manor he be want td ft to team la it tood stood a couple ot at balits from Edi reville be b bald said CD on the old aid boston road little more than a tue atone a brow throw from loaf long island bound ire H explained to me roe that the tb place coul I 1 lie be leaned tor for a aw mere long tons that it wan wait as e eluded and yet convenient to the be city and that it would make an Altol altogether fether ideal place for him to work aa As bla his legal adviser t told him to go ahead and take the place lit wa was working bard on oil ome some book bious and the country air I 1 thought would do him soa but strangely enough he Us U kept insisting that I 1 run down and find see ie the estate first I 1 tried to impress on him that I 1 a juit just a little too busy to leave if ait but be bothered me to 0 o lone long about the tb manor matter and ind carried about with him luch such an air of III mystery that I 1 ultimately gar gave la in after a final gnat urgent appeal I 1 agreed to taka take a couple WAI WAG AM all BOX WILU WILD of djos off at new NW tear year i a a and pd run 0 it with him aud and laro love a look OUT oser the place I 1 11 I 1 fact ford told me we that till ICHI less lie he secured by tit tie alist of tl lit P i hinr tl it 4 property would ret remt ci t to its b original owner is broken cowit ol 01 I 1 army officer by the tb name of gulley law wai was not ford a atron point ai as I 1 clearly law saw when he 6 tried to explain a juit just why it wai was he b bad had to oc cupy COPY the prem pret alses liei before mid i flit of the tb slit of Oe Te cember ile II 11 could only tell me flat unless possession po na vos openly before new year years i day abe be property would par pass out of the ad cf of the lie hampton trust ami arid baty company from which be he vine ai lending it and mind revert to tha the original claimant the old army officer ull old gulner he said ld woo now pow ao an join imalia d and bad had long since expended the tb lat last of bin his shattered fortune in a I 1 effort to retain possess poe Bloh loh of the to houie of him hi childhood ford mid mald be he did I 1 ot of intend to treat the old gentleman il at ib il buy whatever the outcome boat of till this ford tried to explain to me we lo 10 lb the liag car an a the new york local drew cloie close to Edg edgehille evIlle when the train pulled up at the little snowbound station it atlan we w wen were lie the only passengers to alight ai an ford linger ed tor for a wallis a or two to watch albe kit lai car away through the fi A 11 II log ing snow I 1 dolefully to a 0 y elf self that I 1 waa was facing this th prospects of a remarkably dull new now year years a my HY companion explained that aulay wai was am two miles anway and arid that we would have to cow cover it tint at dis dl tanco on oil foot the road wa was an ex el dreary one aal sat as B me vie trudged oo 00 pat pistol lonely mow snow cowed covered hill bill and ad bleak stretches of firm farm land I 1 inwardly rily remarked that I 1 bad never dreamed such desolation could exist within bality miles of the treat crowded city which we w I 1 ad left behind be u rofa ford turned 0 o ae me anil and poke iian you any tda ida why YOU your ft berer he asked I 1 replied that aloe be gaev more about mixing paints than mauldi bar galas aul bill squeezing tube tubes rather than squeezing landlords I 1 alicd 1 I win woe there to mettle tn 10 tome some fical final figure a an a i draw up the necessary papera papers oliata that a not out it at all alir declared my comp anlou baking shaking the snow frow hit bit bat rim I 1 mildly inquired luat just why it was wai then it a to ke see a shoot baid ford quite solemnly there always wet cef times when a lord waa was bird hard to put up with this u i ai 1 oa n 1 of then them I 1 let him win know la in s t 11 er a titillating nor halt bolt hearted way that a man 12 it at my time of life doe does dot not ca 9 to ind alae la in ghost bolt through tumble down eld aid manor as 11 aa an avota tion aed bud that tr it quest of at spirits A a holiday movement in was wi not altogether afa be sanest way of beginning a ven new year nut but ford rord was wa quite sober about it h I 1 tj tell s v u nth 11 this lea tint I 1 con tuse I 1 as ai as mn sell as a you are sito tiler a i it ghost in manor and slid I 1 vp T aliett it with my owa own eyes eye ai so IDIA plainly IDly its a I 1 IN ire you I 1 u BOW flow 1 ve r iwa we it aej I 1 intend to py jay it I 1 coulden it steep it at for it lt and it fot got vu oil my ceryes none of at tt it e people about here will go near tie 11 r place talita why it has ha jeet beta auld sr tr re steil rhey bey lay that birr 01 ft eighty stars aar igo ago a woman wai was mur red them there and burled la the cellar I 1 and ni d that ab ahe at 11 bans the place that a all non jenie of courie course but tar for all nil that there a something mysterious jud uncanny about it mild 1 I CI 0 HD to follow it out to the bitter roil raid you ina Is r 0 cool 01 1 and bud level beaded headed aad and and ga so I 1 want nt you to see keague m through I 1 irita 10 e tur turna iril in a broken v plied uy a talk taut at ol 01 arva 0 eryou I 1 th alil Is was wa an orchard run ran a hlll bedet il 4 ILIN again la in the of a dark little dunn cluing of at littral looking tree trees atme at flood I 1 rameline ram bline billar old many mazy tabled looming op up bloomy gloomy tie desolate an nul I 1 forbid forbidding din through the tb gray grey afternoon it a 3 certainly not an inviting looking pl place erea even the lie iiii tillage age emprow man lad declined to t do tuoro more than leave ford a boxes and outside la to the lh now snow on oil the tumble tumbledown down veranda wo W went eat up the dilapidated stem tap and mj my companion compan loa unlocked the massive rout trout door then for or two boura hours we w walked like beaters be aier in n tart and unpacking the boxen boxes bu id ug us a fire clr tn in the massive old fireplace and tiding doing what we could to make ourselves comfortable comfor tabla for the th night la in the Us big dark paneled room aich lord bord poke spoke of as the th long room the old colonel I 1 learned 0 coupled two little rooms la in the extreme auth mouth wing and did dot not to 0 o much as a make an in app arante aa as we pounded our furniture defiantly antly about the place I 1 that we both look thoroughly over the th building while there was wa till i Is I 1 lute atle daylight a went from room to 0 o room peering 1 into twilit closets and probing about gloomy pai pas sates till it grew dark and ford went back tor for a lamp the boun hours slipped past vast bit still we searched ear clied about the strange old hoine house it grew late and arid we w found nothing but duet dust and cobweb though I 1 believe loid told would have kept up the search till new I 1 eu ear a morning had I 1 not somewhat disgusted ly IY protested that a hot dinner would suit ul me bi bt ater than a 6 ost oat boril cooked the a lenaer Diina elt and I 1 must confess tt it ai as an atrociously bad 0 one be over our coffee and cigar cigars bow ever my good nature mature returned I 1 laughingly inquired tor for a little more information about our esteemed friend the be gloat el OB and nil timidly bilat perhaps the pugna dou lous old colonel hail bad a more mom or less eu active band hand la in the mat ter hut but fold goulda wouldn t bear of such athing d thing the colonel li in anil and can scarcely balk elk lie even lent nr me that long barrel darrel d old title leaning against the fireplace there gad and mid said be he d tie be great if I 1 d fill all this root tool ghost full at I 1 ml ad for or him and I 1 would like to nee stee I 1 ow na all apparition take takes to bulled kut best beille let all 01 this U ether ell our ghost boat ta 4 A amour ft IT wab 1 all on at it 0 mott i ernat if 1 faces I 1 MM ever MW saw the fact act la a ahk taire re con a I 1 b 41 a more b an u will fabel she suddenly ullen appears from to lolet I 1 ere lit at all apparently to I 1 is ai 1 I war way in white I 1 know it 10 a a Is trite but it 1 bl enly R sit tle Is broke nil orf for t at t t tl e back f tl if k tou a bih nil rang ran loudly there was wan no ething arst cr in tl it V sound of that clanging clang lna aa go it echoed tl it rough the huge ell n i ty hall litt ll did not mass abc ull tans taus wr f A little blar crept up my spinal column for tit tl t third tunit the th ta sounded it a the tr not at do toj if of tb kni or of I 1 a h ived the lamp and hurried to the th door no 0 o out oa was a there aa an tin brokell drift 0 at now snow lay on the tb I 1 could we ee the tb bell wa wai A rull till slid that the win wire rau ran la in some torn one ow direction under the floor door just bw re I 1 wanted to and out standing ID in the ball hall a wai as a arden garden spade which ze fina uil used to hovel BOW now from the tb veranda I 1 took till this spade il and uil work rd t un ve vonuer of 0 it into a crack la in the tb floii ints it was w but a moment a taik task to the burd boord and ad remove it 11 the tb bell 1 I s na ran directly in aider der the open ing la even to I 1 stooped over it I 1 could w it giove th clr next moment the tb bell too tui agatol ii EI la it t always lwy rings five times mild ford rord excitedly I 1 belil held the U wire tightly filthily la to my band hand and wilted waited two minutes later I 1 mt felt a corp sharp tug tog at it the 1 be bell vi was kent silent to 0 o the air vu was pulled acabo almost in to patiently it did dot seem a ghost boit I 1 kg ke touch 1 feten whispered yord ford suddenly cans to the tb door ot of the lone long room wai it my imagination or did I 1 really hear it a sound of groans I 1 followed follow tA I 1 OKI ord to the ali door and looked la in the room vr was dark but tor for the dim light from the flying coal la in the fireplace at ont first I 1 thought it was WB onia some trick of the mind wind or the eye ome some picture con colt aured up tip by tease nerves and too active for out of the gloom that hi hl i K g over the tie far end of the tb loof long room ilione shone a woman face ai as death the ebes wore were wide with terror and i a look of unutterable horror hung about tie IP drazil lr mouth I 1 kept taj my ays riveted on n iut mysterious race fabe tot it stood out of the velvet darkness surrounding it as 1 l tit idly as a though a calcium bad been thrown om over it the bead eck framed lu in what spettel to be an old quaker boon boun t oc at the I 1 nt at era crat fury ury ana I 1 law saw it a as e a little thing it it it drove the cold chill out of my te leg gs the ghost bud bald moistened her cival I 1 bard b ard a click if or dy aly me I 1 turned and find law saw ford with the tb beal of the colonel rifle trained it rpcky on tin the woman a heart I 1 throw threw up mf my arm rm but too late thera were ere a dash a deafening report am the sound of a killed ream scream from ali the far for en ell I 1 of the apartment I 1 upset a table and two chain chairs betor before t not tat brosl the room but ali the next As I 1 held a I 1 ring wriggling figure in my lay arn ami a 11 II r handa hands were already thrust in through a 61 lilli ding it panel to a the wall will anil and wie ii pilot 4 and begged nio me to let be her po a puril ford cam came to bla bit senses ne and ran fur for the light while I 1 kaied my captive rod aha the was ao no firmly but gently to a chair and placed it r la it are you huntr panted lord kord bold boll iny lag the lamp with a shaking hakan band b before br her A little laugh laush wai was her only reply A me e both witt looked at berter berAt emly nl an aul I 1 could fay any nothing she ab wiped the bo go ir it from dm her face and then casually te re marked fin da t it lucky I 1 took the trou brou hie ile to draw those bulletin bullet iF sr thea then a 10 9 irately took off her old poke bonnet and a caudle candle wl left had beta under ita its rim fell put it via was practically the old trick actor lay adopted for the ginat in let I 1 win n they put a light in to the via r cr of the ghost 0 helmet to illuminate his bl countenance A mo I 1 a are you and what do you nice men i T r I 1 demanded the girl I 1 inked train conj k burd ord to luo me wit wah if halt roguish anil and half defiant yx 11 1 I N m the family ghook aho she mild di do calely then al at grew inore more sober colon I 1 gulley la to my father but ue aft coant diehm I 1 m the ghost bait this la in our bomi botac but men wicked men liste bare tried tu to ghent in out if it told we ahw ilac place a would be oun again if it we lou boull 1 only baij hot J it till sew ow lears I 1 ear a there w a ao no other way I 1 could think oft of no to ll 11 11 l 1 l 1 turned 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 white an are strange folli folks I 1 drab droll lord I 1 ord la 11 galas to hsrry that tha t ackless r young woman wh did her beit best to frighten him into acu sell |