The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-06-15
A SPIRITS RETURN.
weird Narrative Of Ewo Orphans, Brought
Up by the Same Guardians.

Weafd Narrative OF Two Orphans, brought
Up by the Same Guardians.
The story Of the appear ance of the
soul after death to the surviving
friend, and the supernatural marking
Of the wrist, has been told in many.
ways but in none more circum stan-
ltial than that of Lord Tyrone and
Lady Beresford. 1t is in the Belle
Assemblee of August, 1906. This is
the history. Lord Tyrone and Lady
Beresferd were bdRl orphams, and
brought up by the same guardian.
They were as saueh attached TO each
either as if they had been brother
and sister, writes Walter Besant in
the London Queen. They were at
first educated as deists, but, being
afterward disturbed in t8his belief,
they gave each*sther a SOLEMN prom
iise that tho one who diea1frst should,
TT possible, appear to the
&other, and declare the truth
about xteliHi on. Wears passed.
The girl married Sir Marcus Beres-
ford and haG two cbiildren-daugah-
ters> Oa1e morning slse appeared at
breakfast, ilser wrist sied up with a.
black ribbon. She was much agi-
tated AMID begged her husband to re-
frain ts'omllnquiring into the mean-
| ing OF her agitation, or the ribbon
| round her'Mrist. On that Same ,dav
letter arrived, announcing the
death of Lord Tyrone. Shortly af-
| serward 90 son was born, then her
kaush&1ndy11ied. She retired from So
| eiety, seeing no one except the family
| of a soertsain clergyman. Them, TO the
surprise of the world, she married
this mans son. a youth many years
her Junior. The marriage turned
out 1miserably, and she had to separ-
ate from him. But she had "a child
10y him, and one day. shortly
after he birth of this child, hfer Sec
Dnd husbands father called ito inc uire
| after her health. He them unld her
! she mas"wrong about her age; that
| he had looked up the matter in the
/ negistersand that she was tlsstt very
lay II years of age, though she had
| l1na gined herself to be 49, ..Yom
have brought me my death warranty"
She cried. II have but VERY few
hours, if any, to live She then told
her STORY. Lord Tyrone had appeared
to her. on the night above mentioned.
4 HE ha1 informed her that revealed
| celi gion was true. When she said
that she should regard this as a
| dream he gave her certain tokens bv
| which she should know that it
i was no dream; he twisted the >curtai n
\ lin B. very remarkable manner;he wrote
| some NJ ords in her pocket-book; he
\ told hset that she would be the ina 9th
Fl of LAX boy; that her husband wsauld
! lie before long; that she mua,ld mar
/ ~ again, and be unhappy, and that
/ she would die before completing her
1 Nth year. Also, as a final proof, he
1 Touched 4lher wrist, and instantly rthe
| nerves sand sinews shrank and so re
4 manned &all her life, though she never
alleweRZanyone to see her WRIST. AL
MS prophecies had come true except
l the Last land saying this she lay
! back and died. Scott tells "a tory .of
the came. kind, perhaps based @n this.
il my self ,sas a boy, knew a. lady whn,
sold me THAT the same thing had
\ nappesnedtto her, only that the spirit
\ rad Touched her wrist with the tips
If the fingers and had produced three
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