The Haunting of Isabella

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She was a princess, as Iroquois titles go, comely and good to look upon. The Colonel named her Isabella and fell in love with her. He was a handsome, dashing Englishman and Isabella promptly fell in love with him.

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Affairs were complicated by the fact that there was a Mrs. She was a cold, haughty woman, with some scorn for her neighbours, and no liking for colonial life.

Colonel Axtell brought the beautiful Isabella home secretly and put her in charge of an elderly slave. This devoted slave set her wits to work to conceal the girl.

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Melrose Hall was then, as now, a great rambling old place, abounding in secret panels and hidden chambers and staircases. The south wing of the house consisted of an immense ballroom, with apartments above. Directly over the ballroom was a window. From the outside this looked right enough. On the inside, however, the apartment showed a blank wall. The window opened into a secret chamber.

To this there was no means of ingress except by the outside window. In this secret chamber the old slave hid the Indian girl Isabella. She carried food to her every day and ministered to her wants.

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Under cover of darkness Colonel Axtell used to mount a ladder to visit his Indian princess. Sometimes Isabella was led into the library in the evening, when the house was quiet, and she and the Colonel sat peacefully before the fire. At any alarm they opened a secret panel in the wainscot which led to a hidden staircase which opened upon an outside window, and the girl could easily escape. You can see the panel and the staircase to this day.

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This romance came to an abrupt end when Colonel Axtell received a commission in the British army from Sir William Howe in He went away to war for almost a year and Isabella was left in charge of the slave. When he came back, although on the losing side, he was the hero of the hour among New York Tories. A ball was arranged to celebrate his homecoming.

Melrose Hall was lighted brilliantly and the assembly was very gay. At the first opportunity Colonel Axtell escaped from his guests and ran toward the slave quarters. And then they told the Colonel how in the delirium of her illness the old woman had been possessed of a strange hallucination. He raved like a madman. As he approached the hall, the lights all over the house went out. The ballroom was left in darkness. Eerily enough, time has a way of recompensing those, due penalty for what they have done, and Colonial Axtell would learn this soon enough. Axtell although married, fell madly in love with lady Isabella, so in love that he decided to hide her in a hidden room, above the Melrose ballroom.

This room could only be accessed using secret stairways and passages. Everything was going according to plan until Miranda immediately feel deathly ill. Isabella waited and waited for Miranda to come back, but, she never did. Isabella, trapped within the walls of Melrose, died of starvation. Sometime later, at a family candlelit dinner, the dining hall went frigid and cold. The candle lights all blew out instantaneously, and the windows swung violently on their hinges.

Colonial Axtell died, shortly after that. The house was pulled down in , and in its place now stands, what we know to be Prospect Lefferts Gardens; however, Melrose remains one of the most haunted houses in American history. One chilly December night in , Edward F. Bella laughed as he stepped out onto the road bowed and winked at her. If he had just kept walking it would have missed him; but he stopped and blew Bella a kiss. He hit the windshield and then fell to the ground like a rag doll. Hope you like it I will be ever so happy if you expressed any of your opinions in a review, hell tell me what your fav colour is or give a suggestion of a name you like for my new gold fish this is like my 8th goldfish since feb the lady at the pet shop is cutting me off apparently I am doing something wrong Just In All Stories: Story Story Writer Forum Community.

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