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Before making investments or embarking in his great railroad ventures, Vanderbilt visited spiritualists; we have one circumstantial account of his summoning the wraith of Jim Fiske to advise him in stock operations.
Law is strong in witches and magic, he has very few ghost stories; indeed, according to his philosophy, even a common wraith of a living person is really the devil in that disguise. The learned Mr. Wodrow, too, for all his extreme pains, cannot be called a very successful amateur of spectres. A mighty ghost hunter was the Rev. Mr.
Ten feet away in the flickering half-light, the immense bulk of the mayor of Reuton reposed on the arm of a leather couch, and before him stood his lithe unpleasant companion, Lou Max, side by side with Mr. Bland, whose talk of haberdashery was forever stilled. The candles sputtered, the storm angrily rattled the windows; Mr. Peters flitted like a hairy wraith about the table.
"The three questions are: first, 'What art thou? second, 'Why comest thou here, O spirit? third, 'What instructions desirest thou to give me? Strictly speaking, they ought to be asked in Gaelic, but exceptions have been made on former occasions, and Mac-Dui who pipes, by the way, in the anteroom assures me that English will satisfy the Wraith in your case."
"Oh, Doctor Frank, it was cruel of Rose, wasn't it? You would hardly know poor Kate now." "Hush!" said the Doctor, "here she comes!" A tall, slender figure came out from the orchard path, book in hand, and advanced slowly towards the house. Was it the ghost, the wraith, the shadow of beautiful Kate Danton?
Hallowed, our Saviour, be Thy Name And Heaven's glory thine! Of idol-worship now has vanished every trace In deepest crevice and highest place On mesa, butte and mountain-face; From the Grand Canyon's somber shade The sun-scorched desert, the dripping glade And sunken crater of Stoneman's Lake. The "Casa Grande," a home of ancient race A ruin now is haunted by Montezuma's wraith.
Then, slowly and steadily, she began to do the thing she had come to do. Instantly she was calmer. When a great gust of wind rumbled suddenly in the chimney, and a wraith of ashes blew out of the fireplace, she did not even raise her eyes; but once she looked over toward the room, and smiled, as if to say "It is all right. I am making it all right!"
It was some years before he would trust himself to tell her of what he had seen, fearing that she might consider it an omen of approaching death, and indeed, though not a superstitious man, he was inclined so to view it himself; but his mother lived for many years after the appearance of her wraith.
The yellow beams of light struck down across her head and face, and even at the distance the man could see how white she was and hollow-eyed and worn a pale wraith of the splendid beauty that had walked in the garden at La Lierre. "Who is there, please?" she asked again. "I can't see. What is it?" "It is I, Coira!" said Ste. Marie. And she gave a sharp cry.
For days and weeks Lianor kept to her rooms, seeing no one except her father and Sampayo, whom she looked upon as the avenger of Luiz. Long and tenderly was her lover's memory sorrowed over, until the once beautiful girl was but a mere wraith.
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