The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-06-10

storm OF the preceIng night mad fresh.
ened the earth and cleared the atmosphere.
Hampstead heath was picture Of beauty,
the air full of sweet perfumes, and the sun
was flooding the landscape with soft and
tender light.
Assistance being procured, and the police
duly introduced into the affair, the body
was removed to Hampstead workhouse,
where it awaited the coroner's inquest. 1t
lay there in the deadhouse while the MUIR
derer was travelling comfortably enough to
Liverpool. The train stopped too frequent
ly, however, for his perfect satisfaction. 1t
made him feel lonely and strange to SEQ
people greeting each other, coming and
going, exchanging Sunday visits. He was
almost the only first-class passenger. He
had brought the dispatch box into his car
riaee, and for the first two hours of his
Journey he read many Of the papers and
letters and memoranda which it contained.
Then he turned to the newspapers again
and read over the on dit elating to him.
self, and for the publication of which ho
WAS glad, seeing that it would help to pre-
pare the pubic for the discovery on Hamn-
stead heath Had it been discovereda he
asked himself, and answering it at the
same time OF course it had Howl By
whom? What had they done with it!
Taken it to Portland place? Would the
affair bs in to.morrow's papers9 When
would he see to-morrow's gspers' Had he
left any detail Of the Sllsiness uncon-
sidereda Did any body know that Norbury
had called on him3 Had any body noticed
the likeness between them. Had Norbury
told his lawyer that he was to call on MIR.
Needh ham' What would it matter If he
had9 Supposing they made inquiries about
Norburya They would only learn that he
came in late, had been in the country, and
bad gone to Liverpool Was there any
thing odd in Norbury's conduct2 No. DE
paid his bill, gave receipt for the money
they had taken care of for him; did not
forget his unpacted trunk in the hall. But
they might want him as witness; they
might send to Liverpool after him. Could
they do it in time to stop his sailing? Yes,
that troubled him; and as he alighted from
the train towards evepin he received q
rude shock
"How do you do, Needhanf said a gen.
tleman on tho platform. Il thought was
the only man who felt obliged to travel on
Sundays"
II beg your pardon" said Needham, with
O real stammer, All exaggeration OF Ill;
customary slight hesitation OF manner,
you have the ad vantage of me-"
"Mr. Necdham, is it not| said the other.
'tNIr: John Needham, surely l cannot be
mistaken"
You are, sir; my name is Norbury."
II beg your pardon said the other;
my name is Gresn-Wilfred Green. am
the member for Harwood, and could have
sworn you were u colleague of mine"
'You honor me-" sail Needhanl; II have
never aspired to seat in parliament"
II beg your pardon" said the stranger
again.
Needham smiled, took of his hat and
moved away.
"Curse himi he muttered between his
teeth; II always hated him-tho 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. Not that he dislikel Need
ham, but because he was a spiritualist, an
active, talking, and writing spiritualist;
and he believed he had seen Neeiham 5
materialized spirit On its travels He sud.
denly remembered that he and Need.
ham had not many weeks; previously had
long conversation Of a psychologist ical and
Biblical character, in which Needham had
expressed his entire belief in the Biblical
visions and in ghosts, and had confessed
that he saw reason why the Niuo tcenth
century should be deprived of spiritual
intercourse with those who had gone before
them to the spirit land MI. Wilfrod
Green, II. p, wrote letter to The Times
stating that 1t might be more than coin
cideuce, the appearance unto him at Liver
pool, on Sunday. Of John Needham; and lie
suggested several curious psychological ex-
plantations of the sanle It might have been
an optical effort of the mind or communica'
tion from the spirit world; John Needhams
personality might for tho moment have
been unconsciously assumed By another, for
spirit purposes; but he left the facts to the
learned and scientific, contenting himself
with setting them forth. And for several
days the learned anl scientific gave him
fits" to quote n popular, if vulgar phrase,
while one very imagin ative aud sensational
journalist hinted that if Green had seen
anybody it was really John Needham, and
that the body upon which the inquest had
sat was spurious corpse"
These and other strange circumstances
bury great and dreadful fear.