Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-02-05

mare the public FOR The iiscoyery on Hump
stead heath. Had i Leel discoverolt h9
asked himself, and answering 10 at the
same time. o. course IL had How By
whoml What hal they dom with it,
Taken It to Portland placel Would tho
affair be in to morro8'5 papers2 When
would he see to. morrow's papersl Hal 10
left any detail o. the business uncon-
sidereIl Did ANYBODY know hat Norbury
had callel on him2 Fad any body noticed
the likeness between them. Had Norbury
told his lawyer that he was to cal on Mr..
Needham' What would it matter il be
had? Supposlny they made irquirel about
Norbury! They would only learn hat ne
came in late, had been in the country, and
bad gone 10 Liverpool Was there any
thing odd in Norbury's conduct! No. he
paid his bill, gave a receipt for the money
they hal taken care of for him; did not
forget his unpGcIed trunk in thu hall. But
they might want him as a witness; they
might senl to Liverpool after him. Could
they do it in time to stop his sailing2 Yes,
that troubled him; and as he alighted from
the train towards eveDin he received a
rude Stock.
"How do you do, NaedhamF' said a gem
tleman on the platform. IL thought was
the only man who felt obliged to travel on
Sundays"
Il beg your pardon" said Needham, with
a real stammer, an exaggeration OF his
customary slight hesitation Of manner,
you have the ad vantag3 of me-"
Mr.. Needham, is it not2' said the other.
"Mr. John Neeiham, surely l cannot be
mistaken
"Yo1 are, sir; my name is Norbury."
II beg your pardon said the other;
"my name is Green-WiIfred Green. am
the member for Harwood, AM could have
sworn you were q colleague Of NINE"
You honor ma" said Neeiham; Il havo
never aspired to a seat in parliament"
Il beg your pardon" sail the stranger
again.
Neelham smiled, took off his hat and
novel away.
'Curse himF' he muttered between his
teeth; II always hated him-the jabbering
IDIOT, What will he say when he reads the
papers tomorrow
What did he say! When he read of the
discovery of the body he rubbed his hands
with pleasure. MOI that h3 disIikel Need
ham, but because he was a %spirltua!ist, an
active, talking, AMI writing s~piritaalis,;
and he believed he hal sen Nee lham's
materializal spirit on its travels. He nd
denly remembered that he AMI Need.
ham had not many weeks previously had
"a long conversation of a psychological and
Biblical character, in which Neadham had
expressed his entire belief in the Biblical
visions and in ghosts, and had confessed
thai he saw no reason why the Nine tenth
century should be deprived of spiritual
intercourse with those who had gone before
them to the spirit Land. Mr.. Wilfred
Green, M. F., wrote a le5tor to The Times
stating that it might be more than a coin.
cldence, the appearance unto him at Liver
pool, on Sunday, Of John N3edham; and ho
suggested several curious psychological ex
plantations of the same. 1t might have been
an optical effort of the mind or a communicg-
zion from the spirit world; John Needham's
personality IN ght for tho moment have
boon unconsciously ass1mol by another. for
spirit purposes; but he left the facts to tho
learned AMI scientific, contentlng himself
with setting tnem forth. And for several
days the l9arne1 and scientific gave him
Tits" to quote a popular, if vulgar phrase,
wAilo one very imaginative AMI sensational
journalist hlntel that if Green had seen
anybody ID was really john Needham, and
tnat the body upon which the inquest had
sat was a ''spur1ou; corp5e.n
These AMI other strange circumstances
set upin The sensitive mind of Kate Nor
bury a great and dreadful fear.