Ey ‘THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ang. A PART OF A GHOST rw delightfully erang the mystery. Some fof, andthe sets were cool and eveet, I vas tired and T'wasproce 10 ae The tapestry mas continnoas, ax [hare aad, round the room ; Int ing fap thor, I oreived Ted to may room fom the land alight! The sun wae streaming bight fn on Bristr, ce eay erent tal oe ters persed prostrate form in soak white jumped out of ted ina towering rage, Twas not in the lent236 ‘HE NINETEENTH CENTURY Ase. senshines the si was fest and the meming fas, and s9T stepped ‘Suton ft lawn, and taking the pth which led temptingly through the garden T came to n boat-oas on the bank, Tnskle- were ; Hore pons, canoe, cobles and roomy anne, which proceed fast orm, whore the daghter of the house was waiting for me ale bth tn table. twalecp, aod ‘She dropped tho cup and st staring at mo with strange expres sion, ‘Like a band? How drendfal! Pay have you told my father about i? Tam saory it” She pased and looked at se carestly.28 THe NINETRENTH ceNTeRY Avg ios ud odie drag the in of eftont Maya Teves he cule alive ‘Then cams remone io ite A ‘of Statlan was Ist a ren Sn the grat om in whieh #0 aay snclrere ck onthe somo atin nthe ne Jer ftom ene ofthe gentlemen a thecal, his assurance, on hie ~ tot A PART OF A GHOST: 4 MYSTERY ~ 229 ‘The Countess of Srnhfllan was tied and found guilty of wound= + ing ‘tothe effason of blood, but geet lady od ites to far trom the sentence of «cout of la at time when Scotland was convaied sith the Moody fends bebreen the portbans of Mary and hor foecions nobles, and jutce was not done. ‘Sho was alloned to eocps to France, and was Sally pardoned by the Regent Marry. Dot tho story of tho death of her niace was Tamed dove, andthe cst as rogarded with superstitions fear ssmong the people, who beled the ling fortunes of the ise ‘roe acid with Helen Stevan’ fate, Uo caste was dered ‘Unpleasant visitations, but these were by 20 means invariable, T ‘cannot solvate myitery of my ova experience. Treceived aera, hone, that he al ot left his room on tho night when I was "fected the onde, T stall certainly never forget ‘Uae Dead Mand? W. i, Ros,