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ing that I know of the house Susie If enough we found it t and ruin everywhere hut my iittlc and she soon and clean and got out bits of things straight and tidy We heard ing the first night hut tin that everybody talked about beg Thumpings and and that sounded hollow in the dark lence of the night and now and thei screeches and groans like those of one I pain and fright I could mi poor girl was terrified and at the end of the first week all her spirits id the looked pile Mid ill I be afraid for her for she was a little stranger soon and is notstrong at th and I made up my mind that Eh go home I didnt like to give the job for the company and a bit of money is an object to a man and besides my mates would have had the all my life if I had turn ed coward So persuaded my wife sore ly against her will poor girl to go home and leave me to take care of the Rookery She would only consent to be away at night but I think felt it for the best The first night I was not much troubled the knocking and id the groanE went on as usu al but they did me no harm I smoked my pipe fell asleep thinking of my Susie and when I awoke daylight was coming in gray and clear through the shutters and all was quiet I was ready for my girl when my th a bright face and the kettle boil- i had made It seemed to be before my very eyes and yet I alone no living creature the around me I think that I could face ho hangman with the knowledge that half an hour would end my life with a dogs fate with more courage than I gazed upon that mysterious proof of a I could not It my foot- I had never been on that side of the alt and besides it was the im pression of a broad squaretoed shoo with a flat heel as unlike my boots as possibly could be It was clear and welldefined and as I looked I remembered seeing the dead misers shoes which had been in evidence of something or the inquest when I was a lad They the- exact shape of that footmark and I shivered as I thought that there might be something in ghosts all and that old spirit was flit ting uneasily about the place where he bad liid wretchedly Whilst I stood wondering i in my hand another footmark shaped itself on the floor and then another going towards a do which led to an unused busk I not been down the staircase that night indeed I could not have been for the or at the bottom was fastened and nailed up I watched the footsteps with fa houses round but Rookery had been it substantial old and tin company turned it Jit to a sort of store until they ilovld actually require to for their op of their watchmen could ay in the place for igbtW they applied to the police fur officer live there rent free coals included a fair pay as well to take care of their Sergeant McAllister volunteered be was a strong hearty young fellow a match for any ghost as ho himself declared and this appointment led to one person return ing to the Rookery to whom it had been a home though one The sergeant had a wife a delicate looking nan who had been a workhouse id whom he had rescued from the hard service which is the lot of such girls This orphan was the daughter of the miser at least was the general belief Who her mother was or where she was born no one knew Her father the Rookery with her suddenly hi tab winter night when was an of a few months old and took the bouse which had been a long She was confided to the care of an old crone who was engaged to do work in the scanty household as its master would permit All the in formation that be vouchsafed was that her as Susie Royiton known until the miserable death cast her adrift on the world That cher Royston was found brutally murdered in the cellar of the old Rookery when Susie was about nine years old appearing to show tht his daughter or had any she was taken tothejworkhouso Susie bad been a very pretty child curling hair soft pleading blue A hid grown up a very pretty Accident had discovered the truth about her birth at last the hoard tolight and Susii Royston the despised workhouse drudge had suddenly come into possession of some thing like ten thousand pounds Letters i but there dso were found showing that her fathers in the house began but much with her mother bad been at if the ghost was tired out thl mce a bright and a dark era in bis life and was fain to take a ordinary A few of her notes to him tied together lovingly with ribbon the marriage certif icate and the record of the childs birth spoke of happiness but there were darker out of the thick dnst but I nothing The dog on the couch cried out in the extremity of horror with a cry that was like a human scream in its pain and glared at something invisible to me I tried to make him get down but as he only thrust head into my band if implor ing protection I took him up in my arms All this takes long telling and seemed but I dont suppose it When the footsteps reached the doors something prompted follow them and fear gave place to puH Hill I could Still carrying the dog I went the door keeping rouud by the wall for to have eared my life I have trodden in the horrible track of that walker When I reached the door it opened and I passed th TRRM8 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Whole No 116 IloyetOu8 spirit that to the place and I was all the time but I dont I think hat I dropped asleep in that old and then walked guided by some net of a dream straight to the place very glad Im alive to tell the tale for Black Barry was a tough fellow to deal and he hit hard And thats the whole story sir from ginning to end and whether twas ghost dream it has been a lucky thing for i has given my poor girl her right d I hope I can do well with the money for her and for the bairn thats coming to If its a boy Susan wants to for with all his faults as her father and she loved him I say I care much for perpetuating tho it dont a pleasant one some- but the baby may be a girl and if head be Susie and nothing else though be another Susie in world mo like wife shes all too to be 01c Roystons draught- that call id what was better pay with thanks from the pay having given them no trouble as the close to me that it seemed as though would touch me in passing by knocks and and this kept ill night till I was almost inclined I doubt my own senses and to believe old had really returned to my pipe that night the sounds made too restless so I got up and hunted through the house from top to bottom of the intruders I found nothing however but a loose one of the bak windows on the floor and a mark on the ground underneath dog bad been scratching right th- The Rookery exists no now the runs right through its site and remains save the memory of those connected with it to show the place where fortune was so singularly discovered by cans of Roys tons footstep- bottom was the other door which I had seen fast before I sat down Tit teas now and we passed through I say we assuredly not alone into the passage beyond Nothing there but the white dust and the hanging cobweb- end the awful sounds of the Presence which went before Then down another the door of the cellar where the miser had been murdered This cellar had on old wormeaten board ed floor and a lot of queer odds and ends heaped together there None of the there they had taken the trouble to carry them either the ground floor a in the garden No cared to do anything with the forlorn and thrill as the footsteps I the door of it others had done for I entered for one moment on what I bad heard much about- the misers ghost There it was full in the light of my candle a wierd thistly hideous figure- I could see the bloody streaks on the face and the blood streaming from its gashed would be useless to continue the search I throat It stood right opposite me glaring fastened the shutter and resolved at any at me with its awful eyes and in my that I would not go to bed the next ror I uttered a loud and piercing cry It night I felt a sort of presentiment some- wasnt a brave thing to do maybe but a how that something would come of that better man than watching j that sight I went back into the old house and lhe bolted and barred the place as usual but springing from my arms fie flew I couldnt bolt and bar out the of Before dread that possessed me I tumed into knew where I was I was struck violently the kitchen that Susie had made so home- like when she was there and lit mv pipe the ground I was for a but lhtuA the hearth was I could rest I half and that the band which held me by tl threw myself on the bed neck was solid fleA and hood Then leer trance that had held me went I bit not until daylight if the sounds were not so iD through the chinks in the crazy old loud they were more oppressive Hushed J Gutters Beauty neither beautiful nor repulsive from all points of view A sheet of water is a feature in a landscape when Iewed from an elevated position with its glancing surface spread out beneath the feet but imagine a change of position with the lately enraptured beholder con templating the same sheet of water from the bottom of a capsized boat How far from anguished eyes does its symmetry feet cannot touch The beautiful beautiful snow has rolled into a fine frenzy the eye of many a poet who watched the white flakes through the window with a bright fire in the grate behind him and a smoking din ner on the diningroom table But trans fer the poet to a Scotch railroad train of the situation let the locality be where there is an extended view of nothing to eat drink sleep under or warm at would the poet from that point of observation be able to detect the at tractions of the feathery flakes that lie in such generous profusion around him even when aided in the enterprise by the poem composed on the warm side of the window In these in all eases it would condition of the observer has quite a much to do with the question as the of the object A beauty that and that the tall better thin The spell The and his I bears much dings about all the vile tey store- in to en very much Veil vises em so dime dey at all So I buys a pig o fastens it to de floor to door then I fa inoozle point- down der floor open mil tcr door if he plow out with do I cant help it dont it Veil von day I left thu door pointing to of ter two pullets in it and goes out to dhrink to some lager the I heavy crash dhiA- too much lager Veil help it dont I I pore tore iiteen and I go Louie Veil I mine Atore know the the alarm- about the very room At last desperation I got up and too through the house I sat down records as well n of her faithlessness and finally of her flight when the child was but a few old Then came his taking 1 Byandby I sat down with my do- at Black Barry had transported for man of the old house and commencing my feet in what bad been the drawing- the lonely and miserable existence which I room It was a big barn of a room with haunts know to horribly The wilUhieh me old rickety furniture in it and the 1D dircd found duthiog thick and white upon ever- fdl in hi whit proved him as odd place and I wa an Ihad white trowsers on and the old of the grey blankets off the d placed it on my shoulders My of her prospects thalshemightnotgrow dog worked himself op beside me as close hypocritical and fawn upon him for his as be could get and indeed thep I pulled ihouA s had been all his work t DRS NASH Accoucheurs and Burgeon NEWMARKET above named parties desire to notify lie that the for the practice J Edward NASH begs the pi of this village who will attend others had done There was seemed ill left lor doubt the documents had only to be compared with the registry of the faraway Cornish church where the marriage was solemnized well known and her dentity easily proved and Sergeant Mc Allister suddenly found himself through bis pauper wife man I found him honesthearted sensible young fellow drew up any deeds with more than those in which he dis posed of Thatcher wealth It was about the Rookery that he called on me on this particular day He refused th generous persistency to take a penny for he shivered whined as though he felt some evil He was right about the money lid hear the footstepsand in striking me down he had broken the whisperings coming closer and closer P a board which Ltd a till at length the very air around betrayed the of the purchase money from I should and stared with wide open eyes a foot square in we found all the though he could see somc-th- J A and the money could not grew cold and sick hid a k my pipe went out last whiff of to take all my courage he fancied hi up thinking to go doi and a fresh candle fori burning down there was of it d they tell me the very last words he spoke on the gallows were a curse upon for spoiling the eh left and I didnt relish the idea of being left in the dark I pulled the grey I of tho floor finished think hi will hurt me much for I cant help thinking that the hand of Heaven work If Death should at us r two people that have beard pleasant recollection in life firmly it old scarcely know ourselves in etc I dink I better ash look nothing peso all right That is rig dont it If it dont I can it til about t ven I opens door I gets von pullet through my elbow pullets to my hat through it all de Vest I scart I Veil if I I cant help Pome persons fall discouraged highway of life because they cannot be this or that great or eminent person Why be willing to be No person who ever has or ever will live is without influence Why not make the most of flint Since you cannot grasp that which you wish why let what you have slip through your fingers No per son in the world is exactly You have your own faults but you have also your own excellences individual to your self Let them be seen Because you arc not a poet should you not be a good mer chant Because you cannot go to college should you therefore forswear the alpha bet I Because you build a you not rejoice beneath your humble roof and that because it in your Will not the shine into your win dows if you do not obstinately persist in whole hothouse full of flowers may