The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-30
A Thrilling Experience.

gether on board Cunard steamer from
Liverpool for New York short time
ago They had never met before, but
they happened TO come together in the
first evening on board, and finding that
they had great deal in common, soon
became something more than mere ac-
quaintances. 1t was rough passage,
and they were seldom able to get on
deck, so they spent most of their time
PLAYING ecarc. II was between the
deals of one of their games, and the one
who was sitting on the bunk (whom we
will call Mr. A. was shuilling the cards,
when both became aware that a third
person was standing at the cabin door
looking at them.
Good God, jack" exclaimed Mr.. B.
jumping up from his couch, chow on
earth did you get here?"
The figure at the door said nothing,
but quietly turned around and walked
away again. The boat was rolling bad
". and when B. had done tumbling over
the portmanteau and had made his way
to the door some few seconds had elaps-
ed. A. was naturally somewhat aston
ished ut the mysterious interruption and
the way his friend had treated it, so he
threw the cards on the bed, and, hang
ing on to the door, scrambled out after
him. When he got into the passage he
saw b. standing some ten yards off look
ing up and down in bewildered kind
of way, and nobody else in sight,
WHO was it?n asked A., as the other
came slowly back to him after question
ing the steward. Il have not seen him
on board before" rtr.
"He was my brother, and he is not on
board," was the startling answer. 81
left him in Liverpool, and 1 know he
can't have come away"
Nonsense, my dear fellow; it must
have been some one of the passengers.
certainly don't believe il was your
brother He was as utterly unlike you
as one man can be unlike another. He
was tall and you are short, he was fair
and you are dark, he was stout and you
are slim, and your faces are completely
different"
YES, know. call him my brother,
but he is really my half-brother. His
name is c., and we are totally unlike
each other But that man was my half-
brother, Jack c., as sure as | am stand
ing here, or-his ghost"
Well, there was no more ecarte that
afternoon; none Of the officers or pas
sengers had seen anyone answering to
the description of the supposed c., and
he never appeared again until they
reached New York.
When they landed, b. found cable
message telling him that his half-brother
was dead
NJ Now, so far, this incident was not diff
ferent from ascore of others which have
been reported and published at various
times; and, beyond the fact that the APP
partition was seen clearly by two persons,
itsupplies no further evidence of the
existanoe or appearance Of ghosts or
"doubles than has been adduced over
and over again, But there was sequel
TO this which lends a ghastly circum-
% stantiality to thewhole affair, and makes
it very hard to laugh the matter off as a
mereoptical illusion. .N ~
~ A. lost sight of b. entirely, a few days
afterarriving in America While the
former Went West at once, the latter
stayed in New York three or four days
and then recrossed to England. Two
years had passed before A. went back
again, and he had pretty well given up
puzzling over the mystery, when one
day as he was walking along Piccadilly
he saw the man who had appeared il
an 81 AZ hat a tY. tn No
him.
Pardon me, SIR" he began, sis no
your name {. ~
YES was the answer, my name i
c., but | must confess you have the ad
vantage over me,
II dare say. only saw you once be
fore, and that was on board the steam
ship Papua in mid Atlantic
Good heavens Then your name is
A., and YOU were with my half. brother
Charlie b., when he saw Jack. No, thai
was not that was nv brother. w,
were exactly alike, and were continual
ly being taken for one another. Charli,
is utterly different but then Jack and
took after our fathers. wish you woul,
turn in here,' he said pointing to clul
house close at hand, land tell me al
about the day. You know, of course
that Jack died that very af,crnoon?N
Oh, yes, A. knew it well enough bu
the horrible difficulty was this: He ha,
never seen Charlie b. until he met hin
on board ship, and had never see,
either the brothers &, at all. The onl,
knowledge which he had Of their fea
lures, or could have, was from tina, on
short glimpse on board ship. Whom
had he seen, then3 Scarcely anothe
person altogether, when the remcm
brance OF his features enabled him [
recognize his brother. II il was an OF
teal illusion It was a very wonderi,
one that could so picture face whic
he had never seen before; il II was n,
an optical illusion, what was it?-Ne
York Tribune.
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