New Orleans daily crescent., 1859-11-12


y that still held in my hand, run out of the room
4 and so down into the eating room, where the girl
were assembled for supper. Miss Hake IS come,
4 cried out, now not the least afraid. Mis-
1 ii nv BEDROOM On which some Of the olde
and more privileged ran up stairs. But they cam
i back rather angry, and said | had been trifin
with them, for no Miss Hake was up stairs. indie
/ nantly denied the CHARGE
Then the talk and the tumult attracted the after
ton Of Miss Lloyd herself. was called up to he
IS she sat in the great chair at the head of the sup
per table, and closely questioned as to what ha
asserted, and persisted in asserting, that Miss Hak
had come. was known to be a truth-teler, ant
when simply related my little story, Miss Loyt
SO far paid respect to it as to go herself all ovel
the house to see if Miss Hake was come. Perhaps
Miss Lloyd, in fact, only went through this cere
mony to pacify me, for have since had reason to
believe that the schoolmistress knew that Miss
| Hake could not be come; and long after tnese
| things had passed away, remembered that MISS
| Lloyd looked unusually scared and irignte1ed az
my reiterated assurance that had seen MISS Hake.
1 However no word said she at the time, except
1 land this was said in nervous way which strove
| to be dignifed) that / Miss Bridgeman was mis-
| taken in my idea that had seen Miss Hake. Then
4 it was limited that the subject must be dropped-a
hint which doubtless operated the reverse way
| OF course held very firm to what considered
the evidence of my senses; and when the girls of
our room were unmatched and in bed, there went
about whispered talk, and many whispered sur
mise why Miss Hake had come lfor that she had
come was now the popular beief) and then gone
away again. There was decided feeling that
Miss Hake had been smuggled out of the house,
after having in some odd way smuggled herself
into it. believe murder was darkly limited at.
But as to the supernatural appearance, no one
seemed even to surmise anything so preposterous.
For was not Miss Hake alive and well-at least,
when saw her?
Well a few days, perhaps week, had passed
since the time Of Miss Hakes supposed visit to the
school. We were all assembled in the school-room,
just going to our morning tasks. After prayers,
there was a silence. Miss Lloyd hemmed, and
cleared her throat, if she had something out of
the common way to say to us. Wefeared lecture
of some kind, for the time when we were lectured
was generally after morning prayer. Some Of us,
among the number, thought guildly that we had
talked Of Miss Hake. But now, Miss Lloyd looked
more woeful than stern, and, drawing from her
pocket letter with deep black edge, and large
black seal, said, in sad voice, My dears, am
sorry to inform you have just had letter to tell
me that your young comrade and friend, Miss Hake,
is dead. She died last Saturday night at a little
before 8 o'clock. need not point out to you that
as this was the hour when Miss Bridgeman thought
she saw Miss Hake, the idea of her having then
been in the house was fancy and deusion. Take
care, my dears, how you give way to fancies
dare say Miss Bridgeman little unwell, little
timid, at being left alone in the dusk of the
ing and took the window curtain for Miss Hake:.
you really take the window curtain for Miss
Hake ?''
.No! my dear children; saw both window
curtain and Miss Hake just as clearly as now see
you.r
But then, grandmamma,' y we used always to
object, .if you did not take the window curtain for
Miss Hake-if you saw her as plainly as you do US,
why will you not allow you saw ghost" I"
6 Because, my dears, ! do not believe in ghosts"
But, grandmamma, you saw Miss Hake quite
plainly Now, do you say, as plainly as see you
at this momentg'
"Quite as plainly"
:" And yet you do not believe you saw q spirit!'
"Not q bit of it,
This was all we could ever get out of my grand
mother, and believe it set me thinking on these
matters long afterwards
It was an Honorable Envoy Extraordinary at the
Court of Saxony, who informed me that his brother
Alfred was residing, at the time of the following
apparitional impression, on his living in Ireland
hat there was an old aunt of theirs also in Ireland
out residing at some distance from the clergyman,
who was much looked up to by the family; that
he Clergyman, Mr.. Alfred, was desirous to consult
Ter on some family matters that rather occupied
lis mind but that, though he knew she was ailing
le was unable, from pressure of parochial duties
o SO to her. Mr.. Alfred and his wife were in bed,
n room which opened into their drawing room.
Having not long retired, they had scarcely yet
allen into the ncipient dreaminess of semi-slum-
,er, when they were reused by hearing q voice in
he adjoining apartment. Good Heaven!" said
irs. Alfred to her husband it is the voice of your
unt!,
Inc clergyman az once recognised that 1t was so.
10th he and his wife, of course, imagined that the
Id lady had burst upon them with a sudden visit,
nd perhaps on some emergent occasion. But the
oice said, Don't be frightened, but get up, Al
red, and come to me. don't want your wife. l
7ill not have her leave her bed ON any ACCOUNT
lrs. Alfred would have demonstrated, and would
ave got up, but the voice was imperative and as
he knew the old lady to have wilfulness of char
cter that would not be triaed WITH she remained
here she was while her husband, hastily throwing
n a Ovp r,ro dad
nth the light which he had struck into the next
Dom, leaving, however, the door between it and
ne bedroom partly open In the sitting room he
,und his aunt ttired as usual in plain odfashoned
eatness, Tin brown dress) sitting on sofa from
hch she did not, on his entrance, rise, but waving
way, as it were, all ceremonias of greeting,
gned to the clergyman to take his place beside
er. He did SO, and the old lady then entered on
$ uttered by the two colloquists, was heard by
[rs. Alfred as she lay in bed in the next room.
The old lady had been something of sceptic on
ertain points connected with religion. These she
nan formerly. After that she entered at length
pom family matters, and gave Mr.. Alfred all the
dvice and information he required on the subject
len agitating his mind. The information was
aluable-was such as no one but the old lady in
uestion could have furnished him with; and, sub
equently, proved of material advantage to his in
srests. When all this had come to an end, the aunt
Dse from the sofa, and repelling by significant
esture any hand-shaking or near approach to her
erson, seemed to melt out of the room in way
0 unlike an ordinary departure that, for the first
me, Mr.. Alfred was reused from a strange be-
Tildered state into feeling of dread. He, how
yer, hurried after his aunt, whom he supposed to
e descending the stairs. No aunt was there.
he household was then reused, and the house was
earched, with the same negative result. That the
unit had not been there in the body was proved by
he intelligence received day or two afterwards,
+ her having been lying in bed dying-observe,
ot dead-at the time when the clergyman and his
wife had supposed they were receiving indubitable
okens of her doubted presence.
This story, not only as regards the impression on
wo senses, but on the two senses of two separate
ersons, coming to me from an unimpeachable
interest. 1t would show that, in some cases, the
erebral agitation of dying person is sufficiently
trong to impress two brans-either Immediately
n by transmission from one to the other. There
s, moreover reason to suspect that even a non
norlband brain, in particular emotive states, can
produce -apparitonal impression on another or
others. From valued medical friend have heard
J remarkable story tending to this. gentleman
and his wife being in bed, had simultaneously the
impression of a female being in the room, whom
the husband alone recognised Gor the wife had
never seen her) as lady to whom he had formerly
peen engaged to be married. 1t turned out afrer-
wards that the spectral impression had been pro-
daceo on the night of the marriage of the lady
with another person.
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