The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-10-06
MYSTIC MESSENGERS.
A SINGULAR APPARITIoN THAT MA
TERIALIzED IN THE FLESH.

The Intangible Vision Drew Daughter and
Mother to the Brink of Death, Whence
Its Human Prototype Repealed Them-A
Mother In a Vision.
The events here related were told to me
by persons intimately connected with them
persons who in the ordinary affairs of life
would be believed.
Miss A. was strong, healthy English
girl, exceedingly sensible, and one who was
hscoffer at ghosts. Like the other woman,
she did not believe in ghosts, but unlike
her she was not afraid of them.
She was invited to stay at a friends house
in Ireland, and this house had a 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.
It 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 q carriage
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
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
driver had got down from his seat and was
standing by the horses, looking up at her
window, with his hat in his hand. His
face was bloodless, nothing but skin and
bone-the face of one almost but not quite
q skeleton.
1t says much for Miss AS nerves that
she did not call out nor faint. More than
that, she staid until morning in the room,
although she did not sleep, and next day
told them that she had seen nothing of
ghostly nature in the haunted chamber, at
tributing her paleness to lack of sleep. She
also insisted on remaining in the room the
second night in spite of the protestations
of her hostess, who firmly believed she had
seen something.
Next night exactly the same thing hap
pened, but this time her nerves gave way,
and she ran into the hall and tainted.
The result of this was a long illness, and
whether Miss A saw ghost or not there
is no doubt about the fact that her health
has been permanently impaired by her two
nights stay N the house in Ireland. Last
winter she was so i'll that her mother took
her to the Riviera in the hope that change
of scene would obliterate the memory Of
the man with the hearse. Apparently the
stay at the south of France had that result,
for Miss A. became almost her old self
again. On the way home they stopped at
loro hot al Tho cyir1 hapaD SI16Han1v
worse, and ON being questioned told her
mother with a shudder that she had met
the hearse driver in the corridors of the
hotel.
The mother was shocked to find the old
delusion, as she called it, returning. She
finally succeeded in getting the girl to be-
lieve it was only fancy, but when they re-
turned to the hotel that afternoon and were
about to enter the elevator to go to their
room the girl drew back and said in a hor
rified whisper to her mother that the ele-
vator man was the driver of the hearse.
The mother saw that the man was a most
cadaverous looking Individual, and he, see
ing them hesitate, said:
Are you going up, ladiesf"
Two other persons were in the elevator
waiting
mo" said Mrs. A., well walk up stairs"
The man closed the lift door and went
up At the fourth story the rope broke, the
elevator fell and killed both the visitors
and the attendant.
Those who told me the story look upon
this as a hint that we should not neglect
warnings from the other world, and they
think that what Miss A. saw in Ireland
was the means of saving her life, quite ig-
noring the fact that if she had not seen the
vision or whatever it was her health would
not have broken down, she would not have
been staying at that hotel and would there
fore not have been in danger of going on
that elevator.
The events next to be related happened
in London only few weeks ago. Mrs. X.
had been i'll for some time, but was not
supposed to be in immediate danger. She
died suddenly and unexpectedly one night
about o'clock So unanticipated was this
event that her husband was from home at
the time He was sent for and arrived
about midnight.
There were two children, little girls aged
and IL. Their governess asked Mr.. X.
whether he or she would tell them of the
sad event of the night before. The father
said be would break the news to them, and
he said furthermore that he did not wish
them to gee the body, but preferred they
should retain the recollection they had of
their mother from seeing her while she was
alive
Mr.. X. went up stairs to the room of his
little girls and found them awake. Hetold
them as well ms he could that their mother
had had to go away, and that they would
not be able to see her for a long time.
Yes" said the elder girl, 1--WE know"
How did you know" asked the father
In surprise. who told your"
Mother came in last night and woke us
up and said that she was going away. She
kissed US and told us to be good little girls"
The younger girl corroborated this, and
the children, it seemed, had gone to sleep
again quite contented. They had been talk
ing over their mothers visit when the IA
ther entered the room in the morning.
As far as Mr.. X could learn, no one had
told the children of their mothers death
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