A Haunted Love Story by Mark Spencer

Author:Mark Spencer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ghost, haunting, haunted, haunted house, love, love story, spirit, spirit communication, supernatural, paranormal, Arkansas, phantoms, phenomena, forbidden romance
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2011-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

[contents]

Chapter 14

Finding a Little

Happiness Along

the Way

Prentiss did, however, write Ladell a letter soon after he returned to Minneapolis:

March 19, 1948.

P. H. Savage

300 Baker Building

Minneapolis 2, Minn.

My dear Dell:

Hope that foursome of yours got back to Monticello in good shape after the races. That’s quite a gang you had with you and I liked all of them. Sorry you all did not clean up on the races, but I guess none of us ever do.

We arrived home without mishap and now that I have had time to get some of my business chores worked out, I naturally find myself recalling some of the happenings of the trip south, and one of the highlights was indeed seeing you. It certainly brought back to me many memories of my youth in Monticello. You have changed so very little and I can see why, since your mother too is much like she was when I saw her last. Believe it or not, it was in 1913.

I did enjoy the coon dinner with you. Wasn’t that a wonderful dinner with coon, sweet potatoes and black eyed peas all of which are difficult to get here. We Yankees don’t seem to appreciate good food.

First time I get over into Wisconsin I have a cheese place that makes up delectable packages and so I’ll send you one. Hope you will like it.

It was so nice seeing you again, Dell, and with all good wishes, believe me,

Sincerely,

Prentiss

The “wonderful coon dinner” and the promise to send cheese initiated a food theme in their letters. They seemed to want to nourish each other and give each other pleasure through food. He wanted to send her cheese and pheasants. She wanted to bake him cakes and send him vegetables from her garden. After they spent nearly three weeks together in the coming summer, they had an ongoing private joke about “EAT,” a reference to highway billboards about which Ladell had made some remark that delighted Prentiss, a remark apparently full of sexual innuendo.

Ladell responded “promptly” to Prentiss’ first letter. He thought her quick reply was “real cute.” It was soon apparent that the sparks of their teen-age romance still glowed. Prentiss wrote:

It seems so natural to hear from you and I hope you will have no concern over writing. Telling Virginia about hearing from me was perfectly alright and I am sure she will forget it.

You certainly are as near the Dell I knew years ago as you could possibly be. I see so little change in you. Dell, you have one outstanding trait and that is you make everyone love you and all of those I talked with told me what a wonderful sweet person you were, how everyone loved you and how you made everyone happy when you were around them. That’s the way you were as a girl and I can understand after seeing you again. Keep smiling.

I wondered who Virginia was, and in my research I easily discovered that she was the daughter of Prentiss’ sister, Genevieve.

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