The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-02-27

80 should /, SAID 1. III you VIII
take my advice, YOU will give Yourself
a holiday. surround yourself with
friends and forget Your halluciu alton
it is one. You are just Il little upset,
and it will pass.
| wrote prescription.
Take this at night" l said. Il
assure YOU that science has distinctly
proven the fact that ghosts do not APP
pear to anyone.
The next day | read in the papers
that Madame-had taken her ply
sician's advice and would spend a
twelvemonth abroad.
1t was more than a year, however,
before i saw upon the walls of the city
the announcement of Madam IS re-
appearance. She was to play her
favorite role, and the papers were full
of paragraphs concerning her.
As | had my fortune yet to make
felt that | was somewhat extravagant
TO attend on the first night, but | did
so, nevertheless.
The house was full of the most ele-
gant people in town.
The curtain rose upon the unim-
portant characters who always usher in
play. and finally the door at the back
OF the stage was flung open by a SER
want and Madame - Entered A
roar of applause greeted her. She was
handsomer than ever. Her role was
one 10 call forth all her art. She did
not fail
AS tie play proceeded noticed, how
ever. that she occasionally glanced in
the direction of one of the side-scenes
in way did not like. And us the
curtain rose upon the last act there
seemed to me longer wait than usual
at the time when she should have
entered: however she came.
She advanced to the footlights. The
part she played placed her in that scene
in the midst of Il bowling mob who
threatened her.
She turned and faced them. They
Hourished weapons in the air. She ad-
dressed them her tall form drawn to
its full height
My memory of the play was that at
this moment succor arrived. but it
occurred to me that the scene was
changed. From the midst of the mob
strange wild figure rushed forth.
| saw it but for Il moment. Ii threw
back the collar of its coat and revealed
a red cash across its throat, and flung
out its hand toward her. | saw it but
for moment, wondering what con-
nection it had with the play, then saw
Madame - fall forward on her face.
The curtain fell. The house was in
an uproar of excitement. A moment
after a call was made for doctor. l
was the first to answer it.
4 little group of physicians gathered
about the beautiful form that they had
lifted to a sofa; but we saw at glance
that we looked upon IA dead woman.
For my part horror beyond that
which sudden death inspires possessed
me.
Did You notice the moment at
which she fell?" ] asked a prominent
physician who stood near me, and
whom | knew well.
Yes" said he. ''as he spoke the
last words of her defiance Her friends
were about to appear
Il fancied one OF the populace-the
one who touched her, who had blood
upon him-fris htencd her" | said.
''Oh, no one touched her, my dear
fellow" he said. There is nothing of
the sort in the play. She awed them
by her manner, you know. Good
heavens, what a sad thing this is!''
1T is horriblew | answered
| think so still. No one but myself
had seen the man with the blood upon
his throat unless she did, and unless all
that | am bound as medical man to
disbelieye is true there are such things
as ghosts.