v S V v iLLi oV r JEn v VrH r - swiktZsjr rAE0DND EPUODE NLW IN THE LIFE OF AMELIA BUTTERWOtfTH BY ANNA KATHAPINE GREEN- AUTHOt OFTHtLCAVtNWORTH CATE DtMIND OCVEO tXJOC THr MTAIB NtXT CCO CDPYIGMT IB97DY AMNA K ROHLfV ETC ETC CHAlTKK XII tho one who r eos it jiy liuHlmmlH tin- Tin riiANTOM CAimiAoi l Hm Un iHxt mnriiiii nftor it How Well I mn Batting 011 famously thought I UhoMs milled to tho other complicntiouH vhit could tho follow have meant If 1 had pressed him ho would hiivo told mo but it did not heem quite a ludyH husinem to pick up in formation this way especially when it teemed likely to involvo Lucettu Vet did I think 1 would over como to tho end of this without involving Lueetta Mygood EPiiho said No Why then had my instinct triumphed for tho lionco Let those who understand tho workings of tho human heart answer I nm himply stating facts Ghosts Somehow the word startled mo ns if in sonio way it gave a rather unwelcome confirmation to my doubts Apparitions seen in tho Knollys man sion or in any of tho houses bordering on this lane I That would bo serious how serious seemed to bo but half com prehended by this man But 1 compre hended it and wondered if it was gossip liko this which had caiiFcd Mr Gryco to induco mo to visit this houso as guest I was crossing tho street to tho hotel as I indulged in these conjectures and intent ns my mind was upon them 1 could not but noto tho curiosity and in terest which my presence excited in tho simplo country folic tlint aro invariably to bo found lounging about a country tavern Indeed tho wholo neighborhood teemed agog and though I would huvo thought it derogatory to my dignity to notico tho fact I could not but seo how many faces were peering at mo from storo doors and tho half closed blinds of adjoining cottages No young girl in tho prido of her beauty could liavo awakened moro interest and I attribut ed it as was no doubt right not to my appearance which would not perhaps bo apt to strike these simplo villagers as renmrkablo or to my diess which is rsUher rich than fashionable but to tho fact that I was a stranger in town and what was more extraordinary a guest of tho Knollys My intention in approaching tho ho tel was not to spend a couplo of dreary hours in tho parlor with Mrs Carter as Mr Simsbury had suggested but to ob tain if possiblo a conveyanco to carry mo immediately back to tho Knollys mansion But this which would huvo been a simplo mutter in most towns seemed well nigh an impossibility in X Tho landlord was away and Mrs Carter who was very frank with mo told mo that she not only did not dare but would find it perfectly useless to ask ono of tho men to drive mo through that lane Its an unwholesome spot said she and only Mr Carter and tho police huvo tho courage to biavo it I suggested that I was williiu to pay well but it Fccmed to make very little diffcrenco witli her Money wont hire them said she and I had tho satisfac tion of knowing that Lueetta had tri umphed in her plan and that 1 must sit out tho morning after all in tho pre cincts of tho hotel parlor with Mrs Carter It was my first signal defeat but 1 was determined to iiiako tho best of it and if possible glean such knowledgo from tho talk of this woman as would help mo to pluck out victory from it fc ho was only too ready to talk and tho first topio was little Hob I saw tho moment I mentioned his name that I was introducing a subject that had already been well talked over by every eager gossip in tho village Her attitude of importance tiio air of mystery sho assumed wero preparations I had long been accustomed to in wom en of this kind and I was tint at all surprised when sho announced in a way that admitted of no disputo Oh theres no wonder tho child is 6ick Wo would bo sick under tho cir cumstances Ho has seen tho phantom carriage Tho phantom carriage So tlint was what tho locksmith meant A phantom carriage I had heard of every kind of phantom but that Somehow tho idea was a thrilling one or would liavo been to a nature less practical than mine I dont know what you mean 6aid I Sonio superstition of tho placo I never heard of a ghostly upp arunce of that nature bofore No I expect not It belongs to us I never heard of it beyond these moun tains Indeed I huvo nover known it to huvo been been but upon ono road I need not mention it mudam You can guess perhaps what I mean Yes I could guess and tho guessing inado mo set my lips a littlo grimly Tell mo more about this thing I half laughed half spoke It ought to bo rtf sonio interest to mo Sho nodded drow her chair n trifle nearer and iinpotuously began You seo this is a very old town It has its ancient country houses liko tho ono you aro now living in and it hus its early traditions Ono is that a car riage perfectly noiseless drawn by horses through which yon can seo tho moonlight haunts tho high road at in tervals and Hies through tho gloomy for est road wo huvo christened of lato years Lost Mans lauo It is a superstition possibly but you cannot find many fam ilies in town but believe in it as a fact for there is not an old man or woman in tho pluco but has cither seen it in tho past or has had sonio relativo who has seen it It passes only at night and is thought to presago some disaster to by him on tho highway Fortunately years elapso sometimes between its go ing and coming again It is ten ycuis 1 think they say since it was seen last Poor littlo Hob It has frightened him almost out of his wits I should think so I cried with bo coming credulity But how camo he to seo it 1 thought you said it only passed at night At midnight sho repeated But Rob you see is a nervous lad and night before last ho was so restless ho could not sleep so ho begged to bo put in tins window to cool oil This his mother did and ho sat there for a good half hour alone looking out at tho moon light As his mother is an economical woman there was no candle lit in tho room so ho got his pleasure out of tho shadows which the great trees iiiudu on tho highroad till suddenly you ought to hear tho little fellow tell it ho felt tho hair rise on his forehead and all his body grow still with a terror that inado his tongue liko lead in his mouth A something a thing ho would have called a horse and carriage in tho day time but which in this light and under the influence of tho mortal terror lie was in took on a distorted shape which made it unlike any team he was accus tomed to was going by not as if being driven over the earth and stones of the road though there was a driver in front a driver with an odd three cornered hat on his head and a cloak about his shoulders such us ho remembered as having seen hanging in his grandmoth ers closet but as if it floated along without sound or stir in fact a specter team which seemed to find its proper destination when it turned in Lost Mans lane and was lost among tho shadows of that ill reputed road P haw was my spirited comment as sho paused to take her breath and seo how I was affected by this grewsoino tale A dream of tho poor littlo hid Ho had heard stories of this apparition aiidcliis imagination supplied the rest No excuse me madam but this is tho very point of tho tale Ho had been carefully kept from hearing any such stories having enough to do to bear his own troubles without that You could seo this was truo by the way ho told abet it He hardly believed what ho had seei himself It was not till sonio loolish neighbor blurted out Why that was tho phantom carriage that ho had any idea he was not relating any thing but a dream My second pshaw was no less mark ed than the first Ho did know about it notwithstand ing I insisted Only ho hud forgot ten tho fact Heop supplies us with these lost memories Wo remember then what may never recur to us in tho day time Very truo and you might bo right Miss Butterworth if he hud been tho only one to seo this apparition But Widow Jenkins saw it too and she is a woman to be believed This was becoming serious Saw it before or saw it after I asked Does she live on tho highway or somewhere in Lost Mans lane Sho lives ou tho highway about a half milo from tho station She was up with her sick husband and saw it just as it was going down tho hill She said it made no moreiioiso than a cloud slip ping by Sho expects to loso old Kuuso No one could seo such a thing us that she says and not have some misfortuuo follow I laid all this up in my mind My hour of waiting was not likely to prove wholly unprofitable You see tho good woman went on with a relish for tho marvelous that btood me in good stead there is an old tradition of that road connected with a carriage Years ago beforo any of us wero born and tho houso where you are was a gathering placo for all tho gay young bloods of tho county a young man camo up from New York to visit Mr Knollys I do not mean tho father or oven tho grandfather of tho folks you aro visiting liiuani Ho was great grandfather to Lueetta and a very fiuo gontleinan if you can trust tho pictures that aro left of him But my story has not to do with him Ho had a daughter at that timo a widow of great and sparkling attractions mid though sho was older than tho young mini I huvo mentioned every ono thought it would bo a mutch sho wus so handsome and such an heiress But ho failed to pay his court to her and though ho wus hundsonio him self and iiuulo a fool of moro thun ono girl in tho town every ono thought ho would go as ho had como a freo hearted bachelor when suddenly ono night a horso unci carriage wero found lacking from tho stables and ho wus found lack ing too and what was worse tho young widows daughter u chit who was bare ly 15 and without a hundredth part of tho beauty of her mother Lovo and an elopement only could account for this for in thosu days young ladies did not ride with gentlemen in tho oveiiing for pleasuro and when it camo to tho old gentlemans ears and what was worse camo to tho mothers there was u com motion in that houso tho echoes of which some say huvo never died out Though tho pipers wero playing and tho fiddles wero squeaking iu tho great room where thoy used to dance tho night away Mrs Knollys with her whitu bro cado tucked up about her waist stood THE NORFOLK NEWS THURSDAY OnTOHEU 2li 1899 with her hand on the gieat front door waiting for tlio hniso upon which sho was detei mined to follow him Tho fa ther wlui wus a man of 80 years stood by her side Mo was too old to ride him self but ho never sought to hold her buck though tho jewels weio tumbling fiom her hair mid tho moon had van ished f i oni tho highway 1 will bring her buck or die tho passionate 1 eauty ocluiiucd and not a lip there said her nay for they saw what no man or woman hint been able to seo up to that moment that her cry life mid soul wero wrapped up in tho man who had stolen away her daughter and that it wmld be death in lite for her to live with the knowledge that sho had given him u wife of her blood who Was not herself Shi ill went the pipes squeak and hum went the fiddles but the sound that was sweetest to her was the pound of tho hor es hoofs on the road in lront That was music to her indeed and as soon us alio heard it she bestowed ono wild kiss on her father and bounded from the house An instant and sho was gone Ono flush of her while lolio at the gate then all was dark on tho highway and only tho old father stood in that wide open door waiting as ho vowed ho would wait till his daughter ie turned She hud not gone ulono A faithful groom was behind her and from him was learned the conclusion ol that quest Ionm hour andiihalf they lodo then they cuino upon u chapel in tho mouutuiiis in which wero binning un wonted lights At the sight tho lady drew rein and almost loll from her horse into the arms of her lackey A niuiriago sho murmured a mar riage and pointed to a carriage stand ing in tho shadow of u wide spreading tree It was their family carriage How well sho know it Housing herself she mado for tho chupel door I will stop it sho cried 1 urn her mother und I huvo tho right But tho lackey drow her hack by her rich whjjo dross his daughter sltfiiig all ulono iu tho cur tiage Hut the soil on tho white brocad ed lolds of lier while di ess was no longer that of mild only She hud stubbed her self to the heart witli u bodkin she woio iu her hair and it was a corpse which the faithful negro had been driving down the highways that night I am not u sentimental woman but tills story us hus told gave me a thrill I do not know as 1 leally i egret experi encing What was this unhappy mothers name I asked Liieeltu was tho unexpected and none too reassuring answer OlIAlTKIt AMI iossip This iiume oneo mentioned called for moio gnssip hut of a somewhat ditler cut nut me Tho Lueetlu of today is not liko her uneieut iiumesuke observed Mrs Car ter Sho may huvo the hem I to love but she would never show I hut lovo by any act of daring 1 dont know about that I replied astonished that 1 felt willing to enter into a discussion with this woman on tho very subject 1 hud just shrunk Ironi tulltingover with the locksmith Girls us frail and nervous us sho sometimes astonish one at u pinch 1 do not think Lueetlu lucks dining Vou dont know her Why 1 have seen her jump at tho sight of a spider and heaven knows that can be nothing new to her among lie decaying walls in which she lives A puny chit Miss Butterwoith pietty enougli but weak The very kind to draw lovers but not to hold them Yet every one pities her her smile is so henrllnolcn Witli gliosis to tumble her mid u lover to bemoan she has surely some ex cuse for that said I Yes I dont deny it But why has sho a lover to bemoan Ho seemed a proper man beyond tho oidiuury Why let him go ns she did Kvcn her sister ii n fhlt run ha in nisi ox a is fomiiiai Look iio cried pointing in at one of tho windows and sho looked Tho muu she loved stood beforo tho altar with her daughter Ho was looking in that duughtors fuce and his look showed a passionate devotion It went liko a dag ger to her heart Crushing her hands against her fuce sho wuilcd out some fearful protest then sho dashed toward tho door with atop Stop on her lips But tho faithful lackey at her side drow her back once more Listen was now his word and sho listened Tho minister whoso form sho had failed to bco in her first hurried look was utter ing his benediction Sho had come too lute Tho young couplo wero married Her servant said for so the tradi tion survives that when sho saw this she grew calm as walking death iu an instant Making her way into tho chap el sho stood ready ut tho door to greet them as they issued forth and when they saw hor there saw tho rich bedrag gled robo und the gleam of jewels on u neck she had not even stopped to envel op in moro than tho veil from her hair ho seemed to seo what ho had done and stopped tho bride who in her confusion would huvo fled buck to tho altar where she hud just been mudu a wife Kneel ho cried Kneel Aniaryuth Only thus can we ask pardon of our mother But at that word that word which seemed to push her u million miles away from these two beings who but two hours beforo hud been tho dour- est beings on earth to her the unhappy woman guvo u cry und fled from their presence Go Go wero her parting words As you huvo chosen continue But let no tongue cull mo mother Henceforth I am mother to no one Thoy found her lying on tho grass ousido As she could no longer sustain herself on a horso they put her into tho carriage gave tho reins to her devoted lackey and thenibohes rodo off on horse back Ono man tho fellow who had driven them to that pluco suid that tho clock struck 12 from the chupel tower us the carnage turned away and begun its rapid journey homo That may be so and it may bo nut Wo only know that its apparition enters Lost Mans lane at nearly 1 ulways ut nearly 1 tho hour at which tho real carriugo camo buck und stopped beluio Mr Knollys gate And now for the worst Miss Butter worth When tho old gentleman went down to tho curriugo from the door where ho had stood without movement ever since sho tturted after tho lovers it wus to find tho lacker in front and admits that she loved him I do not know tho circumstances said 1 Well there isnt much story to it Ho is u young man from over tho moun tains well educated and with sonio thing of a fortune of his own Ho camo Hero to visit tho Spears I believe and seeing Lueetta ono day leaning on tho gate in front of her houso ho fell in lovo with her and began to pay her his at tentions That was beforo tho lano got its present bad name hut not beforo ono or two men had vanished from among us without anything being known of their fate William that is their broth er you know has always been anxious to huvo his sisters marry so ho did not stand iu tho way and no moro did Miss Knollys but after two or threo weeks of doubtful courtship tho young man went away and that was tho end of it And a great pity too say I for once clear of that houso Lucettu would grow into another person Sunshine mid lovo two very good things Miss Butter worth especially for those that aro weakly and timid I thought tho qualification excellent Yes said I I should liko to seo tho result of them upon Lueetta Then with an uttempt to still further sound this womans mind and with that the united mind of tho whole village I ro murked Tho young do not usually throw aside such piospects without ex cellent reasons Have you never thought that Lucettu was governed by principle iu discarding this very excellent young mini Principlo What principlo could sho have hud iu letting u dcsiruble husband go Sho may huvo thought tho match uu undesirablo one for him For him Well I never thought of that Truo sho may Thoy aro poor but poverty dont count in such old families as theirs I hardly think sho would bo influenced by any such con munition Now if this hud huppened this year after the lane got its name and all this stir hud been mudo about folks disappearing there I might huvo given some weight to your suggestion women aro so queer especially the wo men of old families like theirs but this happened long ugo und when folks all thought 1 heap of the Knollys leustwiso of tho girls for William does not go for much you know too stupid and too brutal William Would tho utteranco of that name heighten my suggestion I Miiwyid hit closely lint could itetect no change iu her Nomewhiit puled countenance My allusions wein nol In referenco to the disappeaiuiices said I I was thinking ill something else Lucettu is not well Ah I know I They say sho hus sonio kind of hrai I complaint hut ilnt wus not tine then Why her checks weio like roses in those dus und her llguin as plump mid pretty us any you could see now among our Hinge beaulies No Miss Hutteiwoith it wan hor weak ness lost him Mio pmbably palled upon his taste It was noticed Hint he held his head very high iu going out of town Mas he married since I asked Nol to my knowledge maam Then ho loved her I declined Sho lookid at me quite eurlouslv Joubl less that word sounds a Htlleqiieer on my lips but I hut shall nol deter me from using il when the cirenuisluneis seem to requite Besides there wiihoiico ii time Hut Ihete I promised lo full into mi digressions You slioiiltl huve been nun ried your self Miss Hullcrwoilh said she 1 wus umuycil Hi si at her timing and secondly that 1 was so littlo angry at il Bill then the woman mean no ol fenso probably intended u compliment rut her I am very well contented as 1 am I returned I um neither sickly nor timid She smiled looked us if she thought il only common politeness lo ugieo with mo and tried to say so bill finding tho situation too much for her coughed anil discreetly hold her pence I ennio lo her icseuo with a new question Have tho ICnnllvsovcrheen success fill in love The mother of these girls now she who was Allheu Hunoughs wus her life with her husband happy I have always been curious lo know Sho mill I weio schoolmates You weie You Knew Altheu Knol lys when she was u girl Wasnt sho charming maam Did you ever see a livelier girl or one with more knuek ill winning nlleclion Why sho couldnt sit down with you a half hour beloro you fell like giving up eveiything you hud lo her II made no dillelenee w belli er you weio mini or woman it wus all the same She hud but to turn those mischievous pleading eyes upon you mid you became u tool ut once Yi I her end was sad maam too sail whin you remember that sho died at the very height of her beauty ulone mid in u for i igu land Hut I huve not iiuswend your question Wero sho and tho judge happy together I have never heiid lo tho contiary maam Im sum ho mourned her faithfully enough Some think that her loss killed him Mo did not survive her moro than three years The children do not favor her much said I but I seo an expression now and then in Lueetta which recalls her mother faintly Thoy mo pine Knollys blood said she Even William has tiuits which with a few moio bruins huek of them would remind you ol his giandfuther who was tho plainest ol his race 1 was glad that tho talk had reverted to William He seems to lack heart said I as well as brains I marvel that his sisters put up with him as well as they do Tliey iiiniiit help it Mo is not a fel low to he foohilvlth Besides ho holds third sham in the house II they could sell ltl Hut deary me who would buy an old tumble down pluco like that on u road you cannot gi I folks w ho have any consideration for their lives to enter for lovo or money Hut i run me muuni I forgot thit you are living just now on that very roul Im sure I beg a thousand pardons Iain living there as a guest I re turned I liavo nothing to do with its reputation except to biivo it A courageous thing to do maam and one that may do the road some good If you can spend a mouth with the Knollys and como out of their house at lust hale and hearty us you enter it it will bo tho best proof possible that there is less to bo feared there than some people think 1 shall bo glad if you can do it maam for I liko tho girls and would bo glad to huvo tlio rep utation of tho placo restored Pshaw was my final comment Tho credulity of the town hus hud as much to do with their loss of it as thoy themselves That educuted people such ns I seo hero should boliovo in ghosts I say final for ut this moment tho good ludy spiinging up put an end to our conversation Sho had just seen u buggy pass tho window Its Mr Trohm said sho Mumn if you wish to return homo beforo Mr Simsbury conies back you may be able to do so with this gentleman Hes a most obliging man mid lives less than a quarter of a milo from tho Misses Knol lys I did not say I had already mot tho gentleman Why I do not know I only drew myself up und waited with some small inner perturbation for tho result of tho inquiry I saw sho had gono to make I To ho contiiiiioil niixt SUurilnjr Notlrt to IhikI On iinrH To all whom it may concern Tho county commissioners of Madison county Nebrasku having viewed tho section lino road petitioned for by J Hoopfinger and others conunonciiig ut the noithwost corner of the southwest quarter of tho northwest quarter of sec tion nino in township twenty four 21 north range four i I west of tho tith principal meridian iu Madison county Nebrasku running thence north to tho northwest cornor of section four I aforesaid township mid range mid terminating at tho intersection with the south line of Pierco county hasroported iu favor of tho establishment thereof und ull objections thereto or chums for rimmtges must be filed in tho county cleiks office on or beforo noon of tho 7tn day of Novomlier A D lSJi or said road will Ihi opened without rofereuco thereto K G 11fii mas County Clerk Hest canuod goods nt the Norfolk Cash storo TIIE FIRST BABY tts Coming in Looked Forward to With Both Joy mid Four and itn Sato Arrival in Hallod With Trido and Dolight by All Thn nrrlval of tho first baby in Mm household is tho happiest and most Im portant event of married life Theyoimg wife who Is t ii become a mot her delights to think of tho happiness in storo for her when the littlo ono shall nestle upon her breast und latterly Hho shall hear it Unit ho sweet and holy name mother Hut hor happy mil ieipat ion quickly van ishes when sho ivuliru I ho terrible pain und HiilTering through which she must pass whllo bringing tho liltlo ono into t ho world An indescribable fear of tho danger attendant upon tho ordeal noon ilissiputcM her joyfiilncHS ThoiisandH of women huvo learned by nvporionco that hern is absolutely no nircHHity for thn tailTerlngs which at tend child birth thev know t hut by t he nun of Mot hcrH Krlontl u ecien tillo liniment for u few woolen beforo tlio trying hour oxpeetiiiitniothors can so prenam thonmolvoti for tho ilnal hour thai tho pain and Hollering of tho dreaded event arc entirely obviated mid it is surely piiHsed through with com paratively little discomfort All women tiro interested and es pecially expectant mot hers who for tho first timo have to undergo Ihis trial in 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