The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-10-09
MYSTIC MESSENGERS.
A SINGULAR APPARlTloN THAT MA
+, TERlALlzEo IN THE FLESH.

TERlALlzEo IN THE FLESH.
The Intangible Vision Drew Daughter and
Mother to the Brink Of Death, whence
It's Human Prototype Repealed Them-A
Mother In a vision.
The events here related were told 10 me
1 by persons intimately connected with them
i persons who In the ordinary affairs of life
would be believed.
i Miss A. was strong, healthy English
I girl, exceedingly sensible, and one who was
/ sscoffer at ghosts Like the other woman,
she did not believe in ghosts, but unlike
her she was not afraid Of them.
i She was invited to stay at friend s. house
! In Ireland, and this house had haunted
room. Miss A. asked permission to sleep
In the haunted room, and the permission
was reluctantly granted. for those in the
house thoroughly believed in the ghost.
\ 1t was nearly midnight when Miss A.
!, went to the haunted room, which was stu
/ ated in the front part Of the house over
/ looking the carriage drive that led to the
: entrance. She looked around the room,
which was furnished in modern manner,
and saw nothing to disquiet her, but as she
was preparing for bed she heard n carriage
4 come up the drive and apparently stop at
/ the front door Astonished that any Wis
. itors should arrive so late, she parted the
, curtains and looked out. 1t was lovely
n moonlight night, the moon shining full on
the front of the place, making the drive as
\ light almost as day.
/, She saw standing opposite the door two
, black horses and a closed hearse. The
u driver had got down from his seat and was
r standing by the horses, looking up at her
l. window, with his hat in his hand. His
= face was bloodless, nothing but skin and
:, lbone-the face of one almost but not quite
= l skeleton.
. 1t says much for Miss AS nerves that
Y she did not call out nor faint. More than
i Tint, she staid until morning in the room,
q although she did not sleep, and next day
D .old them that she had seen nothing of a
}" ,hostly nature in the haunted chamber, at
tributing her paeness to lack of sleep. She
n also insisted on remaining in the room the
u second night in spite of the protcstations
I'd If her hostess who firmly believed she had
- seen something.
!, Next night exactly the same thing hap
7ened, but this time her nerves gave way,
- md she ran into the hall and tainted.
i, The result of this was long illness, and
e whether Miss A. saw ghost or not there
il Is no doubt about the fact that her health
OF has been permanently impaired by her two
" nights stay in the house in Ireland. Last
" winter she WINS 80 ill that her mother took
:, her to the Riviera in the hope that change
q, Of scene would obliterate the memory Of
iii the man with the hears. Apparently the
ell stay Mt the south of France had that result
tC for Miss A. became almost her old sell
Vt again. On the way home they stopped al
"a large hotel. The girl became suddenly
70 worse, and on being questioned told hei
N. mother with n shudder that she had met
-e The hearse driver in the corridors Of tn,
hotel.
il The mother was shocked to find the OLE
lai delusion, MS she called it, returning. Shi
r. finally succeeded in getting the girl 10 be
10y licve it was only fancy, but when they re
ia, turned to the hotel that afternoon and wer,
Id about to enter the elevator to 60 to the
IRE room the girl drew back and said in hor
ng riiied whisper to her mother that the ele
gator man was the driver of the hearsc
N. The mother saw that the man was mos
10 cadaverous looking Individual, and he, see
a, ing them hesitate, said:
81 Are you going up, LADIES'"
nd Two other persons were in the elevate
is waiting
lat "No, /" said Mrs. A., well walk up stairs.
IS The man closed the lift door and wen
eri up. At the fourth story the rope broke, tn
% elevator fell and killed both the visitor
IA. and the attendant.
DE- Those who told me the story look upol
t. this as hint that we should not neglec
Isl warnings from the other world, and the.
think that what Miss A. saw in Irelant
was the means of saving her life quite IL
~, noring the fact that if she had not seen tn
~ vision or whatever it was her health woult
n, not have broken down, she would not hav
MS been staying at that hotel and would there
o. fore not have been in danger of going o.
IS that elevator
NIL The events next to be related happene
ri in London only n few weeks ago. Mrs.
'un had been i'll for some time, but was nc
Inc supposed to he i'll immediate danger 81
died suddenly and unexpectedly one nigl
about s o'clock. So unanticipated was tn
event that her husband was from home I
ept the time. lie was sent for and arrive
ion about midnight.
sri There were two children, little girls age
hlsl Is and 12. Their governess asked Mr. }
the whether he or she would tell them Of Il
IN sad event Of the night before. The faith
,' said he would break the news to them, an
mi he said Furthermore that he did not wis
them to zee the body, but preferred the
ore should retain the recollection they had
; It their mother from seeing her while she WI
hen alive.
YES Mr.. X. went up stairs to the room Of b
- little girls and found them awake HetoI
nav them as we'll as he could that their moth,
en-. had had to go away, and that they woul
to not be able to see her for long time.
WIS Yes said the elder girl, I'VE know. I"
by "How did you knowS' asked the faith
'tri' in surprise. who told youi"
'"n Mother came in last night and woke
ives up and said that she was going away. 81
the kissed us and told us to be good little girls
Ter The younger girl cerroboratcd this, AZ
That the children, it seemed, had gone to slt
DO again quite contented. They had been tai
Lted ing over their mothers visit when the
WY ther entered the room in the morning.
III, As far as Mr.. Y. could learn, no one hi
yay told the children of their mothers death.
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