The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-05
THE MYSTERIOUS COIN.

seen it. She also proved that she had
not been in the sitting room since the after
noon of the day before. My wife and then
went into the front room and removed
everything from the table trying TO find the
cigarette paper, but without success. There
are four facts which we established: First,
that the cigarette paper had disappeared
between 10 O'Clock on Sunday night and Z
O'Clock on Monday morning; second, that
the coin had made its appearance in the
interval; third, that we had never seen the
coin before and did not know what it was;
and fourth, that no person so far as we
/ knew had been in that sitting room during
that time. The folding doors between the
/ sitting room and the bedroom were wide
/ open during the night, and it would he i'm
! possible for any one to move about that
room without being heard
( took the coin 70 n numismatist, who
| told me it was an Egyptian five para piece.
les value is about one cent. have the
/ coin still. and am no nearer knowing how
/ got it now than / was the morning found
| it resting on the white tablecioth alongside
Of the empty covers Of the cigarette book.
Now for a story of one Of the greatest
scares ever got. Between the villages Of
Tadousaand LONE L'Ka1, at the mouth
Of the Ssguenay river, Ia Canada, there
| Is hill at the base Of which is a raYine,
and over this is bridge
II happened ono night when 7 was in
my fifteenth year that / was detained in
Tsdousac until Il o'clock, and the people |
was with talked Of The ghost Of a Canadian
habitant who bad committed suicide ia
the ravine, which was supposed 70 hannt
the scene Of the self slaughter. About ten
minutes past midnight / left the house
and started 70 walk home in the moon
light. When | reached the bridge | looked
down into the ravtne, and my heart seemed
70 stand still There, outlined against tie
bushes in the shadow Of the bridge, was n
tall, white, misty sort Of figure. dressed
apparently ia long and flowing robes and
having one arm raised u seemed % ne
the fingers beekoned TO ne
/ rubbed my eyes and pinched myself,
but IL was no Use. the figure was there
Then | picked mp some stones AID threw
them down They went through Il, yet
stiI it beekoned 70 me 70 come / took 70
my heels and made the quickest time
ever made 20 the top Of the hill
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my run / stopped. ard, tninkiaR for a mo-
ment, went hack. There was the figure.
stih beckoninz with that hoyrid hand Il
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