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A Ghost StoryTJOW cold it is this evening,” exclaimed Belle*” just think of needing a coal fire in May!” “It is rather unusual,” returned one of the girls, “but come, ” she continued, rising from a heap of pillows in a corner, '‘it’s time to go home chilluus, it’s late and I have seven pages of *Der Katzensteg’ left to translate. ’ ”“Let your beloved German go, you know your teacher doesn’t care very much anyway whether you have it or not. I haven’t heard a good ghost story for an age and really girls, I am dying to get the creeps,” interposed a lazy voice from the couch.“A ghost story! A ghost story!” cried the girls in chorus. “Come Verda, no one can tell one the way you can.”“All right girls,” responded Verda, “if I can think of any, but you see you have well-nigh exhausted my store. It takes quite a bit to keep up a ghost-story-tel 1 ing record. ’:The girls turned off the lights and gathered about the coal fire. They waited while Verda finished her candy, for well they knew that she would not commence any sooner. As she put the last morsel into her mouth, they settled into expectant attitudes.“Several years ago, one winter evening,” began the story-teller, “my mother and I were sitting in the living room at our farm, she, busy with her fancy work, I, with a book. Suddenly she laid down her work and said impatiently, Tt is time your father and Mr. Colfax were at home.’,“My only answer was a ‘Hnhu,’ as I was absorbed in my story. ‘I wish they would come,’ she continued, 'it is already f) o'clock and it is so stormy. Surely the “passenger” was on time so that the mail was distributed long ago.’ “I noticed her restlessness and laid aside my book as she was talking. ‘There they come, * we exclaimed simultaneously as the ontcrdoor opened. We heard the men enter the hall to hang up their coats and then as they came into the dining room one of them struck a match as he closed the door.‘Why didn’t you leave the light burning?’ inquired mother. ‘Father will be so cross, he hates to come into a dark room and fumble around for matches. “After awhile I told mother that I thot I would go and see if they had any
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Fargo Spectrum
Fargo, North Dakota, US
Wed, May 15, 1907
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