The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-29

at detecting me in place where there was
reason to suppose l might be. "What is
the NATTER" said I.
''How did you get here?' returned Lilly,
short of breath and seeming much dis
turbed.
81 have been here ever since lunch,'' l
replied; fright in this window"
She paused moment and then said: az
just met you as | was coming down the
stairs. You were going up. You brushed
right by me. Why, spoke to youl You
didn't answer, though; you just went right
on up"
When | saw that she was in earnest, and
was becoming momentarily more agitated,
came to the only rational conclusion posi-
BILE, namely: That some unauthorized per-
son had got into the house. This person
had met her on the stairs; she had supposed
1t must be myself. and he had profited by
her mistake. Itwas true that the staircase
was quite light. there being window on
the landing above, as well as the house door
below; and that o'clock of Sunday after
noon was an odd time for burglar to enter
house visibly occupied by wide awake
people. Nevertheless, Lilly had seen some
body and it was high time to find out who
he was and what he was after.
Accordingly, laid down my book and
went upstairs, with Lilly bobbing behind
me. But when reached the upper passage
or hall new surprise awaited me. My
wife and the other daughter of the home
were still sitting in the bed room; and when
they saw me in the hall, they, too. uttered
simultaneously an exclamation of astonish-
ment. They, too, demanded to know how ]
came there. In reply to my questions they
SAID that they had Just heard some one &c
into the bed room just opposite-my wife's
end mine. Were they sure it was [? They
had not the slightest doubt on the subject
They had seen my face, my dress and my
gait. 1t was |, and no one else. How then
could be in two places at once2
1t was my conviction that no such self
duplication was possible. But since the
mysterious person, whoever he was, haC
entered our room and had not come out
again; and since there was no means Of
exit from that room except by that door,
was satisfied that the person in question
was there: and l followed him in the full
expectation Of finding myself Immediately
engaged in hand to hand conflict with
either burglar, tramp or a lunatic With
heroism which l still admire, 1 crossed
| the threshold. The room was not large anG
l took in every part of it with glance
There was no living thing in it. There was
nobody under the bed, nor in the closet
The windows were shut, but opened one
| of them and looked out. If anybody haG
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window behind him. have jumped into the
middle Of the flower bed just outside the
lrawing room window at which 1 had beer
seated. But no traces of such leap were
to be seen.
Here, then, was a well authenticated case
of doppel ganger. Had the apparition beer
seen by Lilly only it would have passed az
simple but unusually successful instance
of hallucination. But it had been seen,
moment after, and quite indisputably, BY
Two other persons, who never entertained
so much as passing doubt as to its iden.
Lity. until l appeared in flesh and blood
They saw the apparitiou at the instant tina
Lilly, having passed it and addressed it OF
the stairs, had come into the drawing room
Ind beheld me, in prOprid persona, seated
Feeding Emerson in the window.
How to account for this! Was Lilly
spiritual sight openeda If so, is it not sin
gular that the spiritual sight of the othe
two ladies should have been opened at tn,
same time! And how came the spirit of
living and healthy man to be stalking abou
in that manner! | was not in trance.