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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-6-28, Page 6ME SELECT STORY TELLER SHORT* ITRIGHT FICTION* The Latest Stories Iv Popular, Wen- Enown Author. Light Reading For the Whole Family. TrfE ANCESTRAL GBOST The Hattated Room at Menetaing Ran. Yet there were &Iva; et her thrue,t, and. just ehen Laura would have sacrificed all the honor tied ,fie, re- of the family ghost could she have found herself safe outeide that dreadful door with the bar let down to keep them in, Or, Suppose her ancestor had appeared, Imugeving, ravening kr a life, I believe she ivould have given up her lover in the same spirit of duty as prompted Agamemnon to seerifice Iphigeuia. so as to get out of the mese with ite mach ease o,uil safety as possible. But all that they had heard and eeen were mere trillee, bagatelles, skittlee, apple tart, compared to what they were about to see. Suddenly T1113 bells which had been, ring- ing, a anoloaious peal, and the kettle- drums, which had, been beating a muffled harmony, clashed and clanged in a hor- rible discord, at the hearing of which Laura maileit and groaned, while Jack. clutching lair hand, as if for his own safety, alumnae a mechanically, nothing c -c -c -can h -h -h -her—" and here his jaws stuck and he eaid no more. For, at the clang and elash of the bells, the curtains fell before the windows, and they were in darkness a.bsolute. It seemed next as if the end of the room was taken away, and another room opete- el to their eyes. There was, nailing at all in this room, but it woes lighted by a large window at the end, awl a long narrew window at th,3 side. The glimmer from the snow without gave sufficient light for the in- truding pair to we the things which pre- sented themselvee. The t ells stopped, the drums stopped. Then there began a wailing. plaiative music, a tune never heard on earth, which seven a, like the bells and the drums, to 1 e played amend thera, above them, below th.em, And while this weird and ghostly tune was slowly played. there appeared suddenly, net, said Laura afterwards, as if they seeang irom the ground or dropped from the skies, but suddenly, as if they cane from nowhere, three skeletons: In the dim light one could discern their shadewy forme, the lean fingers with whieh they pointed, the long neay lege witk which they danced—they actually daneed. !—the hollew. eyelese, soekets and grinning teeth of the 61-Lu11s, As they came, so they disappeared, as suddenly, as silently. Bat the music, the supernatural, weird, and ghoetly music, went on, and then— ale! then—the final manifestation ap- peared. For, as if he hasi stepped from the wall, Laura saw her great-grand- father—the Actual Family Ghost itself— walk slowly, and as if with difficulty, across the room, and, as he neared the opposite wall, he turned, faced his great granedaughter, and with his white locks and white beard faintly vieiele, he seem- ed to held up a warning forefinger and disappeared. Then the anueic ceased ; the room of the ghost and skeletons disappeared; the curtains which had fallen before the win- dows were drawn back, and there was silence. "Jack!'" eaid Laura. "G-g-g-ood heavens !" cried Jack. "Are we living, Jack?" "G-g-geghoete!" saidejack. "Do you think it is over, Jack?" asked Laura,. "N-n-n-othing---" began Jack, when Laura, lo' king round, saw, to her delight, that there was a gleam of artificial light in the doorway, which showed that the door was open. She rushed to the place; the great bar was gone; tha door was ajar; Laura yelled for help, rushed through, and fell heaelong in the pass- age. The cause of her fall, I am ashamed to say, was no other than Jack himself, who rushed after her. .Both fell down, like Sack and Jill, anct lay sprawling to- gether. That evening Laura aid not appear at dinner ;.,,ledr'mother sent for the doctor, apelnehe was ordered to bed, Somebody sat up all night with her, and. in the morning she was delirious; the system, said the floater, had sustained a severe shock. Ag for ,fack, he ordered his things to be got reedy' at once, and drove straight bath to Colchester, leaving word that he was ordi;red back on regimental duty. But when he got there he was fain to drink so much soda and brandy that he, too, like.Lattra, was put to bed, Thus, for two or three daye, the story of the dreadful apparition at Membling Hall never got about, When Lem% got better she told the story, sitting up in bed, to. her sisters ; she was a girl of fine imagination and an eye to @emetic, situation, therefore the story lose nothing' in the tailing; the sighs, the sobs, the cold . breath, the fingers at the throat, the skeletonee the bells and the weird musk, with the dread vision of her great-grandfaeher at the end were all duly narrated. The sisters told their father. The squire enjoined secrecy, but • telt a corner open in the case of trusted friends.; everyone had a trusted friend. Therefore, before Jack returned, he was aseailed on all sides by questions about the ghost of Membling Hall, aad had to explain, although with fear of xnekieg• himeelf ridieulouss that it wail a real, unmistakable ghost, accompanied by every kind of row and appearance °al- e-ulna:al to sheke a fellow's nerves and make him feel tuetomfortable. Jack was mit a emu of lively imagination, but the thine he had seen were so extramelinary that he nee .only to tell them exaetly as he haa efsen theta. And et would be won- derful, had lye the time, to relate the t forme whieh the story took when related la. Laura the imaginative, and. by Jack the utatter-enfact, Think, however, of the pride of the eleniblinge at this proof incontrovertible uf their family ghost. Where was there, eny where in Flegland, a house with such a ghttAt, so complete in all its parts, so provided with machinery, material gear, and salve -natural assistants? Was it not a great huller to them that their ghost id not aprear unattended, hue was pro- videa with a body -vent, or spirit -ward, of three dancing skeletons? Was there any ether ghost at whose bidding bells evould. ring Auld drums would beat? It was like a royal progress. jcsiah Mem- blieens spirit was welcomed, ache himself would have wished, like a Lord Mayor on Lord. Mayor's day. Did ever mafi hear tell of any other ghost who eould can - mend, so to speak, a private orchestra of his own, to play at his coining? The mere telling of the story became a fearful joy to Laura and to the faithful .reck. It was a dreadful experience to have undergone; but, like a shipwreck on a deeert islaad, once worried through, it became a grand and eplendid distinction. Laera's sieters envied her; Laura's brothers envied her. The squire WM proud of her ; the story brought the great- est creeit to the family; Laura might have adopted the, motto of Queen Eliza- beth, Dux femina, feat She became an extremely interesting pereontune began to cued), ate the sad- ness which belongs, someh.ow, to all per- sons privileged to hold communication •%villa the outer world. She sat in shadowy eornere, or in the dim firelight without a lamp. in the long and dark room called the library, where she told her story with elaepeel hands, while the light of the fire relies:el her pale cheek- and showed up the luminous; depths of her largo soft eyes; her auditors gathered round her catching breathlessly at her words, anit keeling over their shoulders on the chance of eeeimg the spectre behind them. But he never came. "My great-gredaelfa,ther," said Laura, will never, I am persuaded, leave the room in which he has chosen. to dwell. Let us have no fear. Indeed," she added, smiling sadly, "why should we fear? He who restored. the fortunes ef the House, and is geed, enough to watch over it after his paseing away, ecu hardly be feared. He may hear, no doubt he does hear, all that is said and done in the hall, 'therefore let us speak of hira with the reverence and awe which he deserves." They came from all parts of the country to hear the story. 'Laura, was obliged to be at home every afternoon. Jack was nob allowed to leave her chair, in order to be ready to corroborate any state3nent. He shone as the lesser light, not being permitted. to tell the story himeelf be- cause he was not a good raconteur, and because a certain sterility of imagination forbade those developments of facts which are necessary in a perfect ghost story. But he could put in a word by way of proof, and was immensely- use- ful as a witness. A. ghost, like a miracle, requires the testimony of two se. more credible rersons. "1 shall never," said Laura, "never again bear to hear the least frivolous or scoffing allusion to the appearance of spirits. The subject will always be as- sociated in my mind with a manifestation which was truly awful." " Awfully awful," said jack, behind her chair. "1 cannot understand, now, how I lived through it. Indeed, I must have died with terror had it not bean for the invincible fortitude of Jack, who, I will say in his presence, behaved with per- fect courage and reverence throughout. What reassured me nest, and convinced me that no harni was intended, was the celestial music which preceded the most awe-inspiring sight, the last scene of "What is it like,. the minsie ?" whisper- ed a young lady. Like a waltz tune," said Jack, "Not the least like a waltz tune," said Laura. "You might as well eall a reci- tative from Handel a waltz tune :.bettor, in fact, Incense Handel's music is the werk of a men, whoreas this—oh! this that we heard.—whose work was it ?" She lifted hands and eyes, and remained silent in oestatio contemplation of the ceiling. "My dear," she continued, after au in- terval, 'during which the gentlemen thought they were in church, and looked into their hats, it is impossible to :do- serihe that music. Ib fell uponthe soul like some utterance of power : we were awed, not terrified, by it,----" " It was something -like a musical bOx," sett Jaek. " It was nothing ef the sorb, sir," Laura interrupted, "The sound was like no eeethly music, It was tuneful, but no human voice could reproduce the tune; the harmoniee were too subtle and too profound for human art; the imitruments may have been in ferm like our own, but of a sweeteese, of a force which I could never, never hope to convey to your im- agination," " Mule a devil of a row," jack whis- peren itt corrobotestion to a man beside "Was there sty singing?" asked an- other lady, "Oh ! if they had sung a hyrau—what an addition to oter ehoir it would have been 1" "I heard no words," Laura sighed, That is. I could distinguish none, it it eeeneed to inc at if, far off—oh very far away—there was a choir of voices up- lifted in harmory." "Otto fellow egroaning—" *Tank be- gan. but was instantly ehecked as Laura went ou. "The 'meek preceded the Dance of Death"—Laura stopped and trembled— "nothing more terrible could be ecauteiv- ed. As the skeletons danced, pointi•og their long bony lingers ab us, they seems ed to warn as of the flighe of time. Their aspect wee nob forbidding, nor were their gestureangry." 't Grinned a b us," said. Jack, "like the very—" . • • "Could." interrupted Laura, hastily, "could steel a pageant, such it spiritual apparition, have suggested the 'Dante Macabre' to Holbeiu and the mediareel painters?" "Like a hornpipe," said Jack. "Never saw such a, lively lot ; double-shuffie, heel - and -toe, et alk-aromtd, all complete." " How long did the deuce continue ?" asked. a visitor, shuddering. " We took no count of time," replied Laura, "I do not suppose that, as the cicadae e met, we were in the room for ten minutes ; yet what we saw must have taken about a, day and. a half at Inst. How long, jack, do you think the bells were ringing?" Jack shook his head and said he thought they were never going to stop. "Then," continned Laura, "there were the sighing's and the sobbings, the odd winds, the beating of the drums, the playing of the music, before the terrible dance. Hour after 11611V passed away; We were raciehed out of ourselves ; ste were lost in wonder and awe; we felt no hunger; our pule:es stopped., and the beat- ing of oar hearts We were without any fear, were we not, Sack ?" '• Quite." replied Jack, "I was never more composed in my life." "Bali there was mate, was there not?" asked another visitor. "We heard that yon saw the spirit of your ancestor him - Laura sank her voice to a whisper. You heard aright," she said solemn- ly. The manifestations ended with no less an appearance than that of my rever- ed ancestor himeelf, the restorer of the house—even the second founder." She spoke as if Julius aesar himself, or even King Alfred, had been the first of the elemblings. " HUI; —how did he appear ?" gaseed her audience, " He was dressed in a long dressing - gown, suck -as he usually wore in his life- time." " And yet," imarinured a triumphant spiritualist, one of the audience, "they say that ghosts have no clothes. Absurd! Matter, as has been proved over and over area, can always be represented visibly by spirits. Pray go on, Weis Membling I have never, during all my investiga- tions, met with a more interesting ex- periece than this of yours. It will con- found every sceptic." "Dressed in his long gown," Laura re- sumed, "he moved slowly, almost pain, frilly, across the room. He appeared sol - feting from the debility of extreme old. • "Qaite so—quite so !" The spiritual- ist rubbed his hands, "I have always maintained that they appear as they left the world, no older and no younger. Pray go on." "As he moved he turnecl his face to- wards us and smiled. Yon saw- him smile, jack, as plainly as I did." " said Jack, with hesitation, "he certainly wagged his head, and I saw his beard wobble, bit t I can' t honestly say that I saw him smile." He would not smile for a stranger," said the spiritualist. " The . mos t benignant dountenance ; the sweetest smile; the kindest leek itt his oyes; with long silvery locks and a is -hits beard. As he disappeared, he raised hie hand as if to bestow his bene- dietioneapon us.: You saw that Jacki?" " Oh, yes! he lifted his hand." "I think, but I am not sure, that I heard him murinur a blessing as he dis- appeared." "Did he, now;"—asked the scientific explorer of Ghostland—"Did he sink into the ground, or did he, ascend into the air?" "He disappeared," said Laura. "He seemed to toueh the wall and to vanish." "He came out of one wall," said jack, "elate went into the other wall." "Anti aia you," asked the spiritualist, "hear the blessing ?" " o 1 dicl not," replied Jack, "The blessing,' ' explained the scientific specialist, "was for the house aline. You hearti nothing, then ?" "Why," Jack said., considering,' "he shuffled a bit with his foot a,s if his slip- pers were .uneaey." And so if went on, day after clay, Laura receiving visitors and telling the story over and over again. Jack was neither imaginative not was he properly impressed. Ile had seen things and heard things; that was undeniable. Bub he drew no eon elitsimas, He was thus a foil to Laura, and by his very downright reetter-of-faet doggedness he corroborated her statements. The story, little by little, improved ; the heavenly music; was, itt it few days, provided with ets heavenly choir; the bells were it peal; the dance of dea,th was it procession 'of skeletons, who darleed as they cressed the room, in num. her about, a hundred wed fifty ; ehe hone- flietion of the encester wee pronouneed in a solemn 'whisper which could not reach the grosser ear of Jack, but was perfectly audible to Laura. The feir narrator herself boatel° daily snore pene- trated with the greatness, and grandeur of her position; she also, to. Jack's dis- gust, beeame more spiritualized, tried to Jive on nothing, grew certainly pale and thin, and ceased to take the same interest as of old in the little tenderaosses which her lover was willing to lavish upon her. It was agreed, by the advice of the spiritrialisb, that the history should be written down—soberly, he said, and with due attention to dates, times and the ear- roborative testimony of Jack—and print- ed, for the good of the world and the so- lace of mankind. Laura spent, there- fore; a fortnight in the prod -flagon of what was called itt "Plain Statement." Her intimate frieinis observed that the written narrative dM not quite eorre- spend with her former statements, and Jack owned that he had not heard the choir singing hymns, nor seen the bless- ing with both hands. Bat these things mattered little in the face of so tremen- dou.s aucl undoubted a series of appari- tions. The Squire gave his consent to have the story printed—but, he said, for pri- vate circulation only. Let the knowledge of the ghost be whispered abroad; that .could not, he supposed, be avoided; but tho actual feet concerned only the inn mediate friends of the house, and not the general public, whose euriosity ho, fcr one, was not disposed to gratify by re- lating private events, and the experiencea however singular, of his daughter. The " Narrative " or "Plain Statement" was accordingly printed on the finest and creamiest of toned paper, with it portrait of the ancestor. The date of his death was not stated, bat front the mediaeval appearance of the face and the out of the beard., in which he limer improved on the original oil painting (that of Josiah. Membling as a common councilman), the venerable ancestor might hav-o belonged to the thirteenth or fourteenth century. All this added greatly to the glory of the family, and tended to confirm their posi- tion as belonging to the county. With what face coulcl anyone sueer at people as new comers whose ancestors remained in their old rooms, and appeared to give benedictions to the female branches of their posterity ?. Could the Howards, the Courtna,ys, the Montmorencies, the Lu- signans, expect more? The "Narrative" off her hands, Laura began to descend slowly from the higher spiritual levels and to talk of ordinary things in her ordinary manner, so that Jack Dalmahoy plucked up courage and renewed his courtship at tho point where the ancestral spirit had broken it off. He was by this time growing weary of the worship or cult of the old ghost, and it bored him to be nerpetually recalling the dancing skeletons and the shadowy figure with the long white heir. Then, it was annoying for a plain man to be constantly incited to remember a, heavenly chorus, a benediction, a warning look, or a sweet and gracious smile. Therefore, he was anxious to get his courtship' over and carry away his bride. When he men- tioned the desirability of naming the day Laura declared at first that nothing should ever persuade her to leave a house possessed of so many and such rare bless- inge, jack argued that if a girl gets en- gaged she means to leave her own house. Laura replied that slip had not, on enter- ing into the engagement, foreseen. that she should receive the benedietion of her ancestor. Jack responded that the bene- diction did. not tell her that she was not to get married, " unless," he added, with unusual bitterness, "you are going to marry your great-grandfather yourself 1 Don't believe -11 He stopped short here, thinaing it would be well not to say anything about the heavenly choir or the glaciates smile till after his mar- riage. Laura reflected, sweetly holding her hands clasped and her head a little at one side in the attitude of reflection. Tho thought crossed ber mind that it would be a' pity to give up such a good-natured, good-lookieg, well-to-do lover for the sake, of a ghost whom, , perhaps, she would never see again. And presently she mute neared softly : "Jack, do you think my ancestor would come with us to our new home and abide with us ?" "011, Lord!" cried jack in a voice of such genuine consternation that Laura forgot her affectation and burst into a hearty laugh, after which Jack Ltd no , difficulty in getting her to talk aieent day. They wore to be married after Lent, that was, agreed upon, and after an infin- ite amount of discussions it was further covenanted that the clay should be the lase clay of April, This gave them it (near five weeks for preparation, and Jack was ordered back to his garrison worlt to be out of the way until he should be wented to take bis part in the approaching mares mony. • The excitement of the thne gust follow- ed kept Leurees thoughtc a, good deal frota bee ghost, whose home was nob fur- ther intruded upon. By some curious cexrent of feeling, assisted, no dotbt, by Latrees appropriation of the family ghost to herself, it was generally cons/doted that the ghost might 'feel offended at the departure of the one member of the fam- ily to- whom he had condescended to re- veal himself, Ono. lady going so far as to ,prophesy disaster, And when it came) in way and manner as shall be presently set forth, she only said, it was evhat she expected and aleve,ys seid evoulct happen, end bilge if Loma had not been bone on going away, no doubt evil spitits would nob have been elle:wed to work their wiele- el will, rind all this shame would uot have fallen upon the Wally, Among the members of the Dalmahoy family was a first bousin cf jack's, a young fellow of an enquirirg mind, who was readieg et Cambridge for mathemat- ical honors. He was invibed to be best man to his cousin= the joyful oecasion, aml joined the wedding party at Mein- blieg Hall two or three days before the auspieious mernieg. The house was quite full, end the usual excitement of looking alt the wedding presents, .flirtieg with the bride's -maids, claiming, and the rest of it, passed the time more agreeably for Mr. George Dalmahey than if he had been dining in the college hall and spend- ing his evenings in an undergraduate's room. Of course almost the first thing whiclx he heard of was the ghost, and this immediately fired leis imagination, He read the " Narrative." Then he cross-examined jack, and elicited from hint .that the superstroature, so to speak —the heavenly choir and the rest of it— was an aadition made by Laura herself tater the event; that is to say, Jack neither saw uor heard any of it. On •the other hand, there could be no manner of doubt that the "Narrative" was sub- stantially true, and that very strange thins had happened. Mr. George Dalmahoy determined that he, too, would, if possible, witness these things. Why should not the ghost ap- pear to him as well as to his cousin: As for the benedietion, lee dismissed it with contempt. Sack had seen an old man's figure, belle, -with streaming Whete hair, " shuffiinge' ELS he put it, icross the /Woe. That was by itself quite remarkable enough. "No need," said George', "of any benedictions; enough to be able to show himself, lucky old ghost." He con- sidered himself aix expert ill 'the art of investigating storiei of ghosts. He was/ to begin with, entirely incredulous, and, itt the second place, he knew that it is nonsense to deny phenomena. Raps, for instance, are certainly heard, ears are boxed in the dark, noses pulled, heads banged. He had ence inflicted unspeak- able mortification on a meditrm by begin- ning the raps himself before she was ready, and spelling out droulful messages which she did nob understand; and on another occasion, when a spirit had been 'good enough to " incarnate " herself, this untrostworth.y person lit a match and disclosed no othett than the medium herself dancing about wrapped in a news- paper. He had also written an article on the subject for a eollege magazine, and had a shelf full of books treating on spiritualism. He was thus fully pre- pared for an encounter with the ancestor of the Memblings, and ardently longed ..to begin. , He first approachelt the subject with Laura, asking her, reverently, if one could be allowed to visit the hauntell chamber after dark. She replied with emotion that no one with her consent should be allowed to open the door of that room at all. She consideied that to dis- turb its occupant was pardonable only when done by inadvertence and. igno- rance, as happened to herself and Jack. As for a stranger presuming to do so, that, she said, would most likely draw upon his head the most fatal conse- quences. She could only compare the daring of such a deed with the audacity of the ancient king, who drew the lighe- ning down from heaven and was killed by it a,s a punishment. • Thus rebuffed, George Dalmahoy went to headquarters and sought the Squire in his library. Mr. 31/enabling was an easy man, a little touchy abaft his ancient berth, but now in eseellent spirits, and on the best of terms with evexyhoey, iu consequence of the highly creditable match his daughter was makirg. Natu- rally he was disposed to receive all the bridegroom' e people with great civility. It was after lunaheon, and a glass or two of burgundy had disposed the Squire to benevolence towards, all mankind. He was seated before the are, his legs crossed, his hands folded, prepared for the sleep which sometimes overtakes middle-aged gentlemen after a "weomfoxbable midday meal. To hint George stole softly, and taking a chair by the fire turned the con- versation adroitly 011 ancient families. Then he began to talk about the peculi- arities of families, their ways, their dis- tinctive markeetheir little characteristic possessions, how a stutter distinguishes the son of one house, and a distinceive birthemark the sons of another; how in one house no oldest son ever succeeds, and in another ill luck pursues all the daughters; how a banshee belongs .to one family, a white lady to-,anoeher and a little ehild to a third. $' As to your own house," said George, " we have all heard of your aneient ghost," teeorge put ib itt if the ghost had been eitablished many centuries. The Squire laughed pleasantly. • "Yes, we have otir ghost, and I assure you, Mr. Dalreahoy, that we are rather proud of the distinetion, itt one may eel]. "A distillation. truly 1 Partieularly so well authenticated a sehosb itt ib is. You keep the °hamlet. locked, I be- lieve?" "Yes. You see 1;45 would not have the maids frightened, nor would we—perhaps yon think us supeestitiens—disturb bhe ocoupant." • "Quite so—quite'e i . sad George, "However, ghosts only walk se eight, and as then is no poseible fear of disturh- ing the object by daylight, I wish you would loud me the 'key; I should like just to look round the roorre if you have ixe olejssetionee " Well, yall, see," replied the Squire, " the fact is, we bave rather e, streets. ob- jeetion. The lase words of the — the. spirit—weee that no one was to dare en- ter the room unless alone and after bait. "1 respect your feeling," said George ; "yet I think it would be re est injudicious to invade the privacy of the room—after • dark, Everything that we know, my dear sir "—here he assamed the charac- ter of a believer—" everything that we, have learned respeetieg apparitions, the manners and customs, the preferences, so, to speak, of the outer world, shows as that its inhabitants, when they reside . among us, are in some way prevented from feeling our intrusign or even our presence in the dayetime. They may be.• skeping ; they may be "—here he drop- ped his voice and paused—" elsewhere. Their power to be seen and heard is givecx them for use after dark alone." "That seems very true," said the. 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They contain No Morphine, Chloral, 0_oeaine, Antipyrine or any rois000n io latiliftd Mug. 0P1100 25 Coots for .24 Tablets, Sent by Mall on Receipt of Price if not on Sale by your Druggist, ?CAS.2A4VAittiNelltddPePSTfiAAAT°ePt,NTCoYr'• onte. 5