Night of the Spirits

by sloanranger

Part 17

Epilogue

Missus Crayton, nor nobody else believed Angus when he told them it was Jeb's hound Joe, had took most of his foot.

But I had this direct from Angus's son, Tobias.

By chance, the boy came back a week after the incident to check up on his father. He stayed a good while to nurse him after he saw his father's foot chewed 'most clear off.

Tired of listening to the old man's tale, Tobias went to the cemetery one evening at twilight and opened the grave of the hound.

He found the old dog, his face set in a snarl with blood covering the hair on his jaws and whiskers. Clamped between his broken teeth was a piece of brown fabric.

They never found the yellow blanket.

But folks still speak about Angus and Jeb on All Hallow's Eve, the night of the spirits. They speak about old Joe who wanted nothing more than to lie with his master. And it's reckoned, that after a while - the dog, Joe... well - he just got tired of waiting.

The End

Happy Halloween Every Body and to those without one, too!