The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 11, 1936, Page 3

TH psy Weather By MARGARE SYNOPSIS: The mystery sur- rounding Hope Joris, the girl Ru- ert Joris married after Elinor Fleming jilted him, has deepened. When Rupert ran away to his northern camp and came down with meumonia, Dirk, his younger Prother, was suddenly called home by Martin, Martin is Hope's chauf- feur, and Dirk’s spy. And Martin heard a man's voice in Hope's room, tried to catch its owner, and ‘was told by Hope there was no one there. She twas right, too. Now one of the maids, Nora, is explaining to Dirk about’ a revolver she had Jound in the room. Chapter 26 ABOUT GHOSTS sy+s there anything else in the safe?” Dick asked. “There was not, sir. Exceptin’ a bit of dust.” “When was this, Nora?” “Two days ... Three days, sir, before Mister Rupert went to camp.” “Did he say anything when you handed it to him?” “Well, sir, ho laughed and said, *That’s Texas for you.’ | said, “Texas, sir? For I couldn’t remimber any one named Texas sleepin’ in that room, and no one at all has slept in it since your uncle, Mr. Ryker Joris, stayed with us whilst your father was ill. When | said, “Texas, sir? he said, ‘Mrs. Joris is from ‘Texas. She’s not afraid of anything, not even a forty-five gun.’ “Was, that all he said?” asked. “No, sity He told me, ‘I'll bet she strikes a Thatch with a bullet and puts it out again with a second shot.’ He did indade, sir, and laughed hearty at my sick looks. ...1 remim- ber though that Mrs. Joris does not smoke. She does not use matches at all, thank the saints.” _ Obviously Rupert had received the weapon in a spirit of hilarity. “Did you mention the gun to Mrs. Joris?” Dirk asked. “That I did aot. I left Mister Ru- pert to do what he pleased about it, and I'm thinkin’ he gave it back to her, though it was not in the wall- safe next day, nor the day before she came home.” “You think it was a ghi Nora?” “What ilse, sir? There is a ghost in Lowrie. I have me-self heard it, though not for a long time.” “In the tower-room?” ‘Near-by, at any rate, sir. I heard it plain from the hall, a sound like some one laughin’, laughin’ high like | a banshee. Your grandfather had the} tower-room thin. He did not hear the sound, I remimber. That was long Dirk ‘No one heard it but you?” “Not that night, sir. But others have heard the tower ghost. Timothy has seen it.” She paused in some confusion. Ap- parently she had not meant to bring Timothy into the discussion. “Timothy has seen it,” Dirk re peated. “When?” “Just whin, I could not tell ye. But it was years ago. He does not} spake of it, sir. Mary told me.” “All right, Nora. That will do.” Nora’s hand moved to the docr- knob. “Mary said to ask ye, sir, if you would be havin’ dinner at home.” “In an hour,” said Dirk. When Nora had gone he rang for Timothy. Their shadowy world re volving so near, had suddenly be- come real to him. A ghost. It seemed @ proper denizen of that world. IMOTHY came, a bit disturbed. He had no doubt met Nora on the stair. No, @r. hesaid, he never spoke of the in it, aid -he had advised Martin torhe fetieent regarding the} sounds he hag heard. People were too ready toinfs@bderstand. A napkin gfas*eti2 in Timothy's hand, for he Bad Se$ponded hurriedly to Dirk's bel® Ip the dusk of the room he wadded thé bit of cloth nervously, his pale old eyes meeting Dirk's, his words falling reluctantly. “Your grandfather, sir. You know I was very fond of your grandfather. It was he who brought me over from my home in Glamorganshire.” “I know, And you were young, too.” “Right, sir. This did not happen vat that time. This did not happen till after yout grandmother died. You were a child at the time, sir... not much more than a baby. “It was a summer's night, and very | still, when there came a sound . . along about twelve o'clock ... like your grandfather's bell . . . directly} over my bed, sir. “It had not waked Mary, so I must have dreamed {t. But 1 got into my clothes and went down the stair, and opened his door. He was not there. Today In History 1805—Every house but one de- stroyed by fire in Detroit—popu- | lation 2200. = T BELL HOUSTON ~* SS But, standing in the room, was a figure, a lady, sir, all in white.” “Any one you knew?” asked Dirk Timothy looked at hi “It was a ghost, sir.” Dirk felt rebuked, and properly. “I know,” he said. “But did you recognize ...” “I thought afterwards of your grandmother, sir, but it was not like her. The room was dim, merely the night lamp. I saw only that she was slender, and beautiful in a shadowy sort of way, and all in white, with something white and misty around her hair.” “Did she speak?” Dirk asked. “She did not sir. She merely looked at me, and I at her. Then instantly I begged pardon, and closed the door. In the hall it occurred to me that she might have wished to give an order since she had rung the bell. I turned back, and knocked, and opened the door again. But she was no longer there.” “Did you look?” “I did, indeed, sir. Your grand- father returned home as I entered the room, and he helped me search.” “He was as mystified as you?" “Naturally, sir. The figure had been there, and now it was gone.” “He believed you, of course,” sald Dirk. “I am not so certain,” othy. “I supp gested. member.” “Well, yes, he laughed... when [ spoke of the scent.” “The scent?” “There was a sort of perfume, sir -. the faintest possible .. . when the figure was in the room. Embar- rassed though | was, 1 could not but notice it. Even after the figure had disappeared the fragrance seemed to linger. 1 spoke of it, and that was when he laughed, and opened a window.” pe thought of Hope command- ing Martin to search the room. Could there be some other pocket in that wall, some larger panel behind which : human being might secrete himself? “And you never saw again?” Dirk asked. “No, sir. So far as I am aware, she has never reappeared. But Martin’s account of the voice, and no tracks about the hous “It sounds like tt agreed Dirk. However, the voice that Martin had heard was that of a man. Obvi- ously, Martin had not mentioned this fact to the servants, and the sex of the tower-ghost was not a point of discussion below stairs. Alone, Dirk stood thinking of the revolver. Why did she possess it, why did she want it, if she was not afraid? It was a recent acquisition, that he knew, for he had looked into the safe one night himself. Surely she would not have felt the need of such a weapon if she had been in league with the sounds Martin had heard. If she would only confide in him! She had veiled herself studiously since she had caught him watching her in the mirror that night. Perhaps she had never really disclosed her self to him. But now, if he moved carefully, might he not surprise her trust, her confidences? He went downstairs, and knocked on Hope’s door. The door opened almost at once, as if she were expecting some one -- Mary, probably, who, Nora said, was the only one she would see. Having opened t}» door, she stood without moving, looking at him. She was fully dressed, or was it indeed a sort of négligé she wore?... a pale yellow dress, girdled just be- low her breast. and trimmed about the throat with \.hite fur Her hair was rumpled, a tumble of dark curls, and she hugged a little shawl of painted silk about her as if she were cold. Even in the dusk, Dirk could ob- serve the change in her, the pallor of her face, the almost tragic shad- ows beneath her eyes. “May | come in, Hope?” She drew back, admitting him. When he had entered, however, she replied Tim- se he laughed,” Dirk sug- ie was rather bluff, I re- the ghost same thing,” | did not sit down, but stood beside the bed, her hand resting on the great carved post that somehow looked like a totem pole beside her, so immense and ancient it was. Every doubt, every torturing sus- picion, melted at sight of her, flowed from his mind as if it had never been. | He knew only that she was ill, that, seeming only to touch the bed be- side her, she really braced herself against it, otherwise she could not have stood. (Copyright, 1935 Margaret Bell Houston) Dirk smells cigarets, tomorrow, in Hope’s room. stock sold his share for but-a few thousand dollars. 1918—Americans take | Wood and 300 prisoners. 1922—Negro mob kills white motorman at Richmond, Va 1859—Discovery of the Com-} stock Lode in Nevada which yield-| ed over $36,000,000 by end of century, said to have “declared himself in” when on passing by saw two prospectors digging there—Com-~ Henry T. P. Comstock | 1926—Britain protests to So- viet Russia for sending moncy to England to promote general strike. | | 1927—Col. 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