A Ghost Story.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 95, 25 March 1885, Page 4

A Ghost Story.

A vety^tfguTa* t stot^v » which forms one of the sensational social topics of tn6'cfay| Isth^best authenticated of the many stcuies of the, s^pernatural'thai Have I)een hiteiv' t^M'dtfly^s; 'shbrt i .ti l mfe"a i g6' a^ditng' and J we]Ulm6wrt l irrtiyt, M;r" A':; 1 ' was" invitee? to pajr a visit 7 to ' ! his ' distirig^iisWeflfrle'ndiMt'lzza'ra, TII6 house 1 wjas filled^itlV-gue'sts,-'- biit >af W$ and handsome room was placed»«at fliis di^^>la[pßa|elitjy\ pne; f ILt|e l»est Hj^w A&isgJ s]|orytl{ree<; days hj; had a delightful visit, delightful m .^patipgl^s .&?% j,^, jiafl - each night a horrible. 4ty&W}\ dreamed — or was suddenly tjjwakenand on looking around saw the rp,om .^lliantlj^i^wiiji^a^lin'in the act. ot. throwing. .sopetmng >ojit. This "accbmpnsiiedi,^ she turned [her face towards the oniy'spectkor snowing a countenan.ee so * V evil passions" that W'was'thrmed ith horror, soon the light and '•'tjie figure w^tl]^ fjreatjlfuj.fape disappeared, leaving the artist suffering 'from ,fjrig\isful t njghtpare.. vOn i-r^tu/pjng^.feis city home he was sp haunted by the dreadful countenance which had for three consecutive rights* /troubled; hira,( ijfehat Jhe roade a sketch of it, and so real that tne esil^ipression/seemed'to' hdrrifyl ejvery one who saw it. Not a great white'- afterj the- artist rwenthtf .'matter an evening «mi »Mr Baaardi i'bat gentleman invited himj;jt<?;{his picture gallery, whesce. hfe-ywjsjiejd to show him some remai&^bjeC; old iio;rtE«mT .What^.was -jjfo. j4,V:sur'prise to recognise amongst ;them, m tSie likeness of a stately, wejl-dijessed liidy, the^pife !>w&o ; had-jsp,; fgoubled Jfc.ig sluiab.£|ra[pn his .pievjovis (ivjsit, "1 ickihg, how.ftyer,/ ; ; tfr.ev.';revolting vfcM otyrfmosi, asihfc: saw i i jex.elajjoafed, ' Why, I hav^seenj .tfeati Jatly." * : Indeed," said M% tl l<i ;jsjnilin.g; ' : that is hardly possjbjejias Li (lore than a hundred) years n.^go. ! She wflß,^h(ei, ; sßf.qn^ iWjfeiMjOf: my ifca>gra#sfaser, anteftetfed anylihing but credit- pp. th.e; family. She |as strqßgly!, : su&^e(s{e4jlf^ ; rhßiting Murdered jje^<|n}Rb.,anjd^ .../son,- tby#a , former marriage m, order, t<? (make ; Ijier own child heir-to the property. ' The unfortutnate'«bcfyibroke:his neck hi a fall from the window, and there ip every reason , to. believe , that-, he was precfpitaVd ?: irom • IM' window £y his stopmqfher^V.iShe? artist then told the host the circumstance <j>f <hiisi! thrice-repeated i dreamy / and I sent for his sketdhf,' whioh,iso /far as {he -features . w.ereo concerned^ w-ajs identical' wHh ; the portrait %\ Mi lzzaxdfs) gallecy. ; The' 1 sketch/has since 'been photographed^ ftu t, fro m jts'hide&us > expression^ is^ifer from pleasant >■ to '■• hok > ! uponU— Boston <7owr*6r(U'S.), -:;■• /<""?' \ -/./! ;;■.' i .m,- :■ o*'i .«'>o:;i. 'U.