Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-03-16
WHIST PLAYED t, .. HANDS.
Two Medical Students Remarkable Ex-
 perience in a Quiet Game.

rwo Medical Students Remarkable Ex- periencs in a Quiet Game.
 This story advance with reserve. It was told me by a young medico, and we all know that medical students are of a peculiarly reserved, reticent and sober race, averse to exaggeration and remarkable for the veracity of their anecdotes He who related the follow ing astonishing experience told me that q took place at St. Bartholomew's, or perhaps it was at Guys or St. Thomas. The essential thing is that it took place at hospital.
 It was evening and not late. One of the resident house physicians, young man with friend, also young medi- cal man, whose evidence can be pro- cured to corroborate the story, was playing double dummy. They had been playing some time, nothing un- usual happening. They were seated a: a square table. One of them, at the beginning of the new game, had to deal with his own dummy. as Is the rules at double dummy. When he had finished Q most wonderful thing hap pened. The cards of the two dummies were taken up by invisible hands, which arranged them and held them in the usual fanlike form. It was as if the cards were in the air. The two men looked at each other and at this phenomenon with stupefactionL
 If they had not been men of science they would have fled slirieking. Then one of the dummies hands were sharply rapped on the table. ''That means play" whispered one of them, and with gasp, he led. The play of the invis- ible dummies was all right. The lead ing partner took the trick and returned, changing the suit to show the hand she held. say she, because by this time there were visible the hands and arms that held the cards, but nothing more. One of the players was a woman with bare arms showing from a sleeve of white lace; her fingers had rings upon them. The other was a mans with an ordinary coat sleeve and white cuff.
 The men put down theirpipes They played the game in solemn silence. Presently it became apparent that the lady played masterly game She held good cards; SO did her partner. They scored in the first rub-double, treble and the rub, and in the second-treble, single and the rub.
 Never" my narrator told me. "did play with finer player. She seemed to know by instinct where every card in the pack was. At the end of the double rubber the arms disappeared. They went away as they came. Ibave never seen them since, though I often invited them to come by dealing the cards on the table. I have often won- dered who the lady was; young, as I gathered from the appearance of her arms; a gentlewoman, as was shown by the taper fingers, and the rings, and the lace, and a certain way of carrying her arms. Frolicsome, as was proved by her sitting down to play with only her arms visible; unmarried. from the ab- sence of wedding ring.
 "Who could she be7 Why was she brought to the hospital1 What is her storya Why did she die so young2 Above all, how could she, at her early age, have acquired such a knowledge of whisti It is very rare to find girl playing whist even decently. Perhaps, after-after leaving the hospital" he added, with some delicacy of experi- ence, ''she may have found opportuni- ties for practice.
 ''As for her companion, he was con- paratively uninteresting. He had chalked stones on his fingers, and he was only a mediocre player. He neg lected his partners lead, he bottled her trumps, and once he threw away the king of trumps, not even trying to save it by an obvious finesse. But the ,lady-the lady-she, indeed, was di- vine. "-Walter Besant in Philadelphia Times