“THE BROWN LADY”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10313, 24 January 1927, Page 2

“THE BROWN LADY”

REAPPEARANCE OF G HOST. SEEN BY BOY MARQUESS. A sensation was caused recently at Rnynham Hall, Norfolk, the borne ot tiie Marquess Townshend and his mother, by the reappearance of “The Brow'll Lady,” a ghostly visitor who had not been seen for many years. The last account of her was given by Captain Marryat, the writer of adventure stories, who tried to shoot her. In her portrait “The Brown Lady is an innocent-looking woman, who wears a (brown satin dress with yellow trimmings, and a ruff round her throat. When Captain Marryat met her in the corridor one evening, however, she grinned at him in such a diabolical manner that lie discharged his pistol rn her lace. Captain Marryat declared that she instantly disappeared, and the bullet went through the door behind her. The result was that C’hptain Manvat who had been sleeping in the room where the “Brown Lady’s” portrait hung, with loaded pistols under his pillow"’ suspecting a practical joke, never attempted to interfere with the: o-host again, and followed the crowd* of wnests and servants who had licdJ front tlie hall some days before. | Lady Tot/ns end, who is in residence at the hall, states that the young Marquess and a little boy friend met a strange woman on the staircase. Later, when they were shown the'portrait of the “Brown Lady ” both cried, “Why, that is the ladv we met on the stairs, who is she’?” The boys had never heard of the ghost. , “I ant looking forward to meeting the? ‘Brown Lady,’” said Lady Townshend gaily. “She should be awfully interesting to talk to. No, I am not annoyed. Why should I be? No country house is complete without a family ghost nowadays.” .