Kingfield High School - Abram Breeze Yearbook (Kingfield, ME)

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I8 Til-ILL lx from here, said Mr. Iones. Where can we go, thenPU asked Mrs. Iones. All of the other houses near here are occupied, and surely it would take too long to build one now. But Hnally after discussing other matters, they started to go to bed. When Mr. jones had snapped ofi the light in the hall, he walked along slowly to his room, when something strange happened to him, for on the walls, about every two feet, there ap- peared small pieces of paper which were held in skinny, mysterious looking hands that held candles by which the papers could be read. Mr. jones yelled and collapsed just as he finished reading one of these notes which was as follows: This house has been here a great many years, perhaps too long al- ready. Your son and daughter are going to see now what happens to people who are false. You remember how you wronged the family of Samuel Beckwith in whose home you are now dwelling. Now you are to be punishedf' Mrs. jones had opened the door now and turned on the light. She looked all around. At first she could see nothing until she glanced at her feet and saw her husband ly- ing unconscious on the floor. Oh, Carrol, she screamed, what has happened?', but he made no reply, while she could still hear the noises in the house. What shall I do, What shall I do? was all she could say. 'fOh, if my children would only come homef, Then she heard footsteps, first they came nearer and nearer and then they seemed to fade away. During the meantime she had revived her husband and asked him to explain to her what had happened. This he did. Mrs. Iones became more frightened. I can't stay in this house any longer, ' :CORD she said, little realizing what might happen when she said that. About this time Marjorie and Robert came home. When they had learned what had happened Robert said, lt is not safe to live in this house. l'Where shall we go, then? asked Mrs. Iones. To-morrow we will pack up and move to Green Martin about forty-live miles from here, answered Robert. They tried their best to go to bed and to sleep but found it to be impossible, as they heard so many wierd noises. When morn- ing came they all ate ill' early breakfast and began packing their furniture and other household goods. While Marjorie and Robert were clean- ing out one of the closets in the guest room, away back in the left hand corner, they found a large, mustyfsmelling bran-sack filled with what appeared to be skeletons of men and birds. They were so scared they hardly knew what to do and ran into the kitchen to tell their mother and father about their discovery. During the day while packing the rest of their belongings. they came across clothes and queer bundles that belonged to none of the family, which made them be- lieve that someone else was living there in the house. About live o'clock that afternoon, both Marjorie and Robert were taken seriously ill with convulsions. Mr. Iones went to the nearest house which was two miles away to get Mrs. Landing, the only woman any- where around there who understood any- thing at all about caring for sick people. By the time Mr. Iones and Mrs. Landing re- turned. at Mr. Iones' home, the two children had died due, Mrs. Landing believed, to fright during the last sixty hours.

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Tina RE there, as he had left his gun at camp, he ran for the rope deciding to climb as far up as possible. I-Ie had shinned about thirty feet up the rope when he was forced to give up again, with only twenty more feet to go before he could reach the rings. So Nor- wood started slipping down but he hadigone about ten feet when he heard the low growl of the hungry bear. He saw the bear, a huge white animal, gazing intently up at him with a wistful look, at the very foot of the rope. VVhat was he to do? I-Ie could not go up neither did he want to go down. About live feet below him he noticed that the ice jutted out in a sort of shelf, so he slid down till his feet touched the shelf oi' ice, where he rested for fifteen minutes listening to the throaty growls of the ani- mal belowg hesitating to attempt to climb up again, lor he was old, his hands were blistered, his legs ached. The bear, however, continued waiting patiently at the end of the rope, so Norwood hardly knew what to dog he could not stand on that shelf of ice all night: he must do something. At last he decided he would go as far up the rope as he could and then in some way he would tie a loop in the rope. If he con- tinued doing this he would in time be with- in reach of the rings, so he set out. When he had gone as far as he could, he drew up some rope with his feet and after much dilhculty succeeded in tying a knot to stand on, which although small, would help to hold him. I-Ie dug a hole in the ice wall so he could partially stand up and tie another knot in the rope. After doing this for two hours, he reached the rings and then he climbed to the top where he fell ex- hausted. I-Ie never went down in another hole alone again and he always carried a pistol with him so he would never again CORD 17 have to work so hard to keep from being some animal's dinner. L. H. T. 'gl MYSTERIOUS I-IAPPENINGS NE day about a week ago while I was looking through a very old secretary which my great uncle had recently given me, I unexpectedly opened a small drawer in the lower right hand corner and there among other things I found an old yellowed manuf script with the following peculiar tale: A great many years ago, there lived in an old New England town, in a large, rambling, old-fashioned house which was said to be haunted, a family by the name of Ioncs, consisting of a man, his wife, his son and daughter. However, they had lived there for about a year and only once had they ever heard any peculiar noises. That was just a moaning sound which they thought was caused by the Wind. On this particular night Marjorie, the daughter, and Robert, the son, were invited to a party in honor of some friends. While Marjorie was getting ready for the party, on hearing peculiar noises everywhere, she rushed downstairs and told her mother and father. They all went back upstairs but the noises could no longer be heard. While Marjorie and Robert were on their way to the party Robert said, Marjorie, when I went into my room to-night to get ready for the party, I found a note on my bureau saying, 'Beware of mysterious hap- penings'. I did not pay any attention to it but since I started for the party I have felt somewhat uneasyf, In the meantime at home Mr. and Mrs. Iones were becoming rather worried about the peculiar noises. I have a feeling that something terrible will happen to us if we do not move away

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' I' I don't see how anything more could Tina RECORD 19 ened when Marjorie Iones walked into the kitchen. ever happen to us, now that our children are dead, said Mrs. Iones tearfully after this catastrophe. After they had gone to bed a passer-by discovered flames bursting from the whole lop of the house. I-'le ran to the door and rapped as loudly as he could but could not arouse anyone. I'le tried to break and crawl through a window but was unable to do so, As there was no water nearby the people who had collected there, had to let the house- burn llat. The next morning throngs of people came from all over Vermont to see the remains ol' what used to be a line, but haunted, old, colonial mansion. No one ever discovered the real cause of the Iire, although there were many rumors. It was believed that Mr. and Mrs. Iones ac- cidently set the house on Iire in their sorrow at the death of their children. The only thing that remained alter the life was the tall brick chimney. One night about three months after the mysterious fire this same man who Iirst dis- covered the fire, was hurrying hy the place where the house used to be and saw people, dressed in white, running all around the base of the chimney, Init as he approached they all vanished up the hole where the Iire- place was. He waited and waited but they did not come hack down. Nearly every night after that when he would go by this place, olf at a distance, he could see these people, dressed in white. running around making noises until someone came into sight and then these people would disappear. Several years later. after the same thing had happened night after night, except when it rained or snowed, Mrs. Landing was sur- prised one morning and a little hit fright- It was indeed a strange story that Mar- jorie told. After I was taken so sick and died as you all thought I did, I was put in- to the guest room where that closet was where Robert and I found that bran-sack. During the night I woke up and was conscious, I found myself up attic on some old clothes. I could not remember anything about myself, but all I could smell was smoke. There were people in white run- ning all around me. At first they would not talk when I asked questions, but I finally persuaded them to say something. I think I must have fallen asleep then, for when I awoke I was in a dark place. They then told me how it all happened, that the night before, my parents had had a warning from an unknown spirit, and how my brother and I had died. I clid not remember these people but they knew me and said they were my father, mother and brother. There was also a tall, slim man with them. He told me that all this had happened mysteri- ously because of the wrongs my father had done when he was young. I-Ie said as I was innocent that I might go away from them after several years. I wish I could remember whether these people are my father, mother and brother or DOI, but they will never be human beings again. They will always live as spirits. Every night when it does not rain or snow they will appear at that fire- place in the chimney. They claimed they did not remember much of their life, but seemed to remember enough to call me their datighterf, The people, who go there to the old ruins at night time to see this, still wonder what the great mystery is, as the figures in white C'll'l U0 ICH TCI' be Seen. I 5' M. E. L. '32