My granma was Gusta Merriweather, my mother Lavina and lived on the Merriweather place in what was then Dorsey county, near Edinburg, now

SEE DAVIS, LAVINA R. DAVISON, BETTY BREDEMEIER.

Lavina Rice (W); 24Jun75; R608532. R608533.

SEE DAVIS, LAVINA R. DAVISON, BETTY BREDEMEIER.

Lavina Rice (W); 24Jun75; R608532. R608533.

"Why, it's like this: Colonel Richmond's aunt, Miss Lavina Richmond, was a queer old lady, who was once very rich.

"Now, everybody thought that old Miss Lavina Richmond would leave her tremendous pile of diamonds to Millie Stevens.

"This noon, when I returned to my room after lunch, I found upon my dressing-table certain pieces of jewelry which I recognized as having belonged to the late Miss Lavina Richmond.

Well, John Gilder came to me to-day, and told me just as calmly as I'd tell you the time of day, that he'd seen the ghost of Miss Lavina Richmond.

"He told me," continued Horace, "that he was passing through here late last nightnear midnight, he saidand that he saw Lavina Richmond standing just about where you stand now.

"Aunt Lavina," he said, "tell me what you wish me to do.

One of these was doubtless playing the part of Aunt Lavina.

The shade of Aunt Lavina was just retreating toward the cabinet making that absurd series of nods and gestures which such spirits always use.

He held the "bouncer" in one hand and the ghost of Aunt Lavina in the other.

And there, before the old-fashioned fire-place, stood a figure corresponding in every particular to Lavina Richmond as she appeared in a portrait painted just previous to her death, and hanging at that moment in the colonel's room.

The likeness of Lavina Richmond was perfect.

"Chick has found a later will by Miss Lavina Richmond.