. Chantry House . een study-ing our jottings, and had heard comparatively littleof the apparition. When I joined the boys, she said, * I lookedtoward the mullion rooms; I saw the windowslighted up, and heard a sobbing and crying inside. So did I, put in Martyn, and Clarence bent hishead. Then, added Emily, by the moonlight I sawthe gable end, not blank, and covered by the mag-nolia as it is now, but with stone steps up to thebricked-up doorway. The door opened, the lightspread, and there came out a lady in black, with alamp in one hand, and a kind of parcel in the other,and oh, when she turned
. Chantry House . een study-ing our jottings, and had heard comparatively littleof the apparition. When I joined the boys, she said, * I lookedtoward the mullion rooms; I saw the windowslighted up, and heard a sobbing and crying inside. So did I, put in Martyn, and Clarence bent hishead. Then, added Emily, by the moonlight I sawthe gable end, not blank, and covered by the mag-nolia as it is now, but with stone steps up to thebricked-up doorway. The door opened, the lightspread, and there came out a lady in black, with alamp in one hand, and a kind of parcel in the other,and oh, when she turned her face this way, it wasEllens ! * So you called out, whispered Martyn. Dear Ellen, not as she used to be, added Emily, but like what she was when last I saw her; no,hardly that either, for this was sad, sad, scared,terrified, with eyes all tears, as Ellen never, neverwas. * I saw, added Clarence, * I saw the shape, butnot the countenance and expression as I used to do. *She came down the steps, continued Emily,. Lady Margarets ghost.—P. 346. K t e 6 XL.] THE MIDNIGHT CHASE. 34Y looking about her as if making her escape, but, justas she came opposite to us, there was a sound of tipsylaughing and singing from the gate up by the wood. I thought it real, said Martyn. Then, continued Emily, she wavered, thenturned and went under an arch in the ruin—I fanciedshe was hiding something—then came out and fledacross to the steps; but there were two dark menrushing after her, and at the stone steps there wasa frightful shriek, and then it was all over, the stepsgone, all quiet, and the magnolia leaves glisteningin the moonshine. Oh ! what can it all mean V Went under the arch, repeated Clarence. Isit what she hid there that keeps her from resting V * Then you believe it really happened ? saidEmily, that some terrible scene is being acted overagain. Oh ! but can it be the real spirits ! That is one of the great mysteries, answeredMartyn; but I could tell you of other instances. Don
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