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CHAPTER II
IN 1913, Robert suffered a severe illness in the
Spring, and for a few months his life was despaired
of, but he quickly recovered. Soon after his recovery,
his father took him on a fishing trip to Spirit Lake.
The old darky of slavery days went along, and while
he was putting worms on Robert’s hook, told the story
about this lake and why it was named “Spirit Lake.”
The old darky said that the spirit of a beautiful lady
walked on the waters of the lake at night and that was
why they called it Spirit Lake.
Long, long years ago, the daughter of a wealthy
planter fell in love with a poor but honest boy and after
many years of courtship, in which they spent many
moonlight nights rowing on the beautiful lake, the time
came when they felt that they could no longer be separated.
The young man pleaded with her father to consent
to their marriage, but he stubbornly refused and
threatened to kill the young man if he ever called at
his home again. They then planned to elope one night,
and as her sweetheart was placing a ladder under the
window and helping her to get down, her father shot
her lover and killed him. When she found that he was
dead, she ran to the lake and drowned herself. They
searched for days for her body and one moonlight night
they saw her walking on the water. They rowed out |
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