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GOSSIP—EVERLEIGH ANTECEDENTS. 55 *©*Vou’ve said it there, Margery,’ says he. ‘I’m mad if ever an Everleigh was. It runs in the blood. I’m only traveling the road the rest did !’ ‘‘Myra didn’t stay much longer after that scene, She got awful scared besides at something she saw in that old: part of the house that they call the Hermitage. They do> say its haunted, you know; and when she couldn't help screaming with the fright, Margery Gresham gave her such a goin over that she came right away when that quarter was , out, and I never could get her to go back. She always was sort o timid, and she said she was afraid to live there; and between you and me, I believe she was fraider of Margery than she was of the ghost.” Mrs. Sparks paused, out of breath. Miss Dale had sev- eral times opened her lips to speak, but Mrs. Sparks talked on so fast that it was quite out of the question. Miss Dale was about to speak now, when Mrs. Sprarks began again: “*You’ve been there ever since afore Roscoe Everleigh: died, haven't you? ‘That was the queerest affair. I'd give’ a great deal to know how that man died.. Did you see’ him while he lay sick?” ““Indeed I did not,” said Miss Dale, with energetic em- phasis. They would not suffer a soul across the threshold but Miss Gresham, Philip, and the doctor. Mrs. Ever- leigh was too ill herself to try it, and as for the children, Miss Gresham kept them away easy enough, though they: did make a terrible fuss about it.” “There's mighty dark stories told about that dyin’,” said’ Mrs. Sparks, sinking her voice toa whisper. ‘‘Some folks, you know, would do most anything rather than have the disgrace of hangin’ in the family, and he wouid have been hung certain, if he'd lived to stand his trial, though, to be sure, they say the man’s turned up now, wasn't killed-at. com 22) Gbhooks (elo) nm