THE WAVE. 13 A HAUNTED MILL. saw, Me Parks, (Cegen ie. Coombes, taking the long clay pipe fom bis mouth, and poting i bebind his ear; we didnot now his brother in-law, bat we sad we save time), and you know, of couse, that he once took {Please ofan old mill 14 Surrey, and went to ive ‘there. ‘Nw you must kuow that, years ago, this very ail bad been occupied by a wicked olf mise, who died there, leaving™so it was ramored—all his. money |. hidden somewbere about the place, Naturally ‘enough, every ove who had since come to live at the! ‘alll hed tried to nd the treasure; but none had ever saceetded, abd the local wiseacres said that nobody fever would, uuless the ghost of the miserly miller ‘ould, one day, takes ancy to one of the tenant fd distor to him the secret of the hiding-place, My brotheriadaw didnot attach much fmportance| to the sory, regarding it aren old wonan' ale and, luolike Dis predecessors, made no allempt whatever to discover the hidden gold. “Unless basness was very diferent thes from what {te ow said my brother aw, “I don't ee how a ale could very well have saved auythiag, however ‘much of a mlser he might bave been; at all even, Bot enough to make t worth the trouble of look fortes logether get rid of the ides| "sl The went to bed. There was uot atruorlery about hat Tadic ie often ded Gabed ofa Bight. Whit coer remarkable, howertr, tas that exactly as dhe clock of the village chute himed the lat stroke of twelve, a soley ni tee soe thelr quite uaabie be oa not (is ERtin name was Jos) sat up in ed, and ‘eft ine feet ofthe bed something stood very stil, ‘wrapped in shadow. bore i hc mech, ad ten my bate flaw aw that twas the. Agure of 2 wiseoed ite ‘ld ame i kee reeches abd ean lostaut the story of the hg old miner fasted acroat hs min. "les come to show me where Ws hid,” thought] ay brothers nd he "resolved that he would Sct spend ail this ney of suse, bat would d+ {teal percentage of owas doo goed to ‘reasure and "Fae guaet wen!down sale ino the Khe ‘vertnd stood in front of the earth, sighed a feat morniug, Joe bad couple of beicklayers in, 1 made Uren haul oat the stave snd pull down the Shiney. wile he id behind witha patos a angen Jed the wy into th ‘ez instead of flag to the Sreplac,t stood! more {ae mide of tue foom, end sighed there Ob, Lace what be mente now said ty” brother nda 'to himoel "Ws under the Boor, | Why did the| ‘ld idiot go ned stand up again! the tote, so a to ‘Sakeme think it was up te chimocy * pet the Set day in tang the ita rong foc ade bebe & that wt broken. rae fa night, the got reappeared, quite uu siete ed erie ie mae or ae cen footed Gpsains iby andes i "Umpkt he doa't seem to, ave Iearued much Eiback te bed; “T'snou Bove thobght he tg ave done that st fst 7 7 dicot boat sx much tare you woe ‘hcfoarth aight, ohen tne Yon a PTs cde ‘hd boxe lskingeles ae ‘on te it sightwie Joe ava, a bo SEL ee er momo ‘erie li he though the sity ch Sark areca ne eins Sees tmetc eects 'etook them Gree days to ge the root thoroughly oft and all hey found Was Sie's meet, afer secur fog eh they covered up the hese wih tarpon ‘ary ‘You might have thought that would have cused the poor fellow of lookag for rensure, But fd ‘sid there man be Sometig. ia al or the ghost would never Keep on coming ax Ht diay ana| nathan gone so fare wool go on to the ena, snd solve the mystery, cont what night ‘Night ster mighty Ne would get out of his bed ana folloe that spectral old fraud sos the howe’ Ea fan a insu exch ‘would indicate» diferent place! i Se Reaid igh we "Jove slltat tbe hort 2 the wicked ld ma ned dove i to pacich ty. brothersnraw for uot be ewingin hin at Bret; white others beld that tbe ap: ‘probably "that of some decensed oct Ela, who would naturally take {lerestia seeing house knocked about sod spoilt ‘Bat nobody kate anything for certaln./orome Jerome Paes Ta afer Supper id now at twelve, te’ got wan stad ected stitade, ooking very sserabe. “There was