Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1915 — It Was Very Dark. [ARTICLE]

It Was Very Dark.

Flapwahr Sprouts started, and shuddered. It was very dark. A tall white form, swaying slightly, confronted him. He was not superstitious, but— Was not there a story about the house being haunted? Some wild tale of a man drowned in ice-water whose spirit possessed the premises? Again Flapwahr started. For (it was very dark) the whitefigure had moved restlessly—was still moving.

Sprouts remembered now. Forty years ago Sigismund Tilly had murdered his grandfather in that house by turning him upside down in the water cooler, and the old gentleman’s ghost was said to walk the third Tuesday of every month. “Ghost or no ghost, you gotta fight!” chattered Flapwahr Sprouts, and sprang on the thing. Instantly he was deluged with a stream of icy water.

“I gotta get out of this without making any noise,” he thought as he lay on his back in the bathtub. “It must never leak out that I tried to pick a fight with the white duck shower bath curtain!”—Detroit Free Press.