The Leed's-town
ghost runs up and down stairs during the night,
and then sits in a corner of the room weeping and
sleeking her hair.
It is the ghost
of a young woman who was engaged to be married to
a man who refused to become her husband until she
gave him certain deeds kept in a box in the above
room.
As soon as the
deeds were in his possession, he realized the
property and fled to America, leaving the
luckless girl to bemoan her loss.
She went mad:
night and day she was searching for the deeds;
sometimes she would sit and wail in the spot
where the box had been.
At length she
died: her spirit, however, had no rest, and still
constantly returns to keep alive the memory of
the man's perfidy.
