The morning news., 1894-11-27
An adventure of the Rattrea Burg1ar.

At 2 o'clock one morning" said the re-
tired burglar, according 70 the New York
sun, 4 was in a good sized second story
back bedroom in comfortable old house
in country town. IN Massa chusetts. The
bed IN TINS room was empty, but the
clothes were turned back and the bed had
eNluentiy been occupied. IT stood in the
rear corner furthest from the door, with
the headbOard against the rear wall, ana
the side of the bed about foot or so away
from the SIDE wall. At the foot Of the
bed, against the side wall about in the
middle of that side Of the room and right
opposite the door. stood the bureau; be-
tween 1t and the fOotbOard Itself there was
a space of perhaps a foot, may be a foot
ana a hail, enough for anybody to pass
through comfortably.
Il stood now in front Of the bureau.
haq set my lamp down on top of il and
ndd just opened the top drawer when
something prompted me too lok up into
the mirror In that mirror [ saw, dim, but
clear enough, the reflection of a ghost in
lhe nail There was "A faint light in the
nan, just a little light from lamp stand
ing on table near the front end, and by
that llght, when l turned to look, ! saw
the ghOSL 1t was moving from the rear
Of the house toward the front, along the
nall, little nearer to the side / was on
than TO the other, and moving slowly, like
stage ghost. It was tall and spare and
all in white, with something white over its
head. IL moved slowly across the door
and disappeared. After it had gone l
stood there. with my back to the bureau,
staring at the doorway.
"A moment later it reappeared, moving
now toward the rear of the house and this
time nearer still to my side of the hall.
1t was moving slowly, as before, but in
stead of passing by it turned toward my
doorway when il came opposite to it, and
came in over the sill and moved slowly
across the room straight toward me;
nearer and nearer, and l couldn't move,
until something told mel wondered why
II hadn't come to me before-that the
ghost was sleep-walker. It was wO-
man; this was her room. and she was COM
ing back where she belonged.
of course, l felt a little easier then. but
/ wanted to get away, and 1 Thought I
should soon be able to. for l supposed of
and the idea that she would do anything
but go to the front of the bed and get in
there, like any other human being, never
entered my head. While she was coming
across the room I had sort of invOluntar-
lily backed into that gap between the cor
ner of the bureau and the footboard of
the bed. ] stood there looking at her while
she was still coming straight across to-
ward the bureau, never doubling that she
would turn in time and go to the front of
the bed, and she did turn and move in
that direction, but when she got pretty
near to the other corner of the fOOtbOard
from where | was she turned gain and
started toward the gap that I was stand
ing in, evidently with the intention Of GO
ing around to the back of the bed. be
tween it and the wall, and getting in on
that side. That last three or four feet
along the fOotbOard she seemed to glide
as smooth as ever. but quicker'n light
ming, and l in the way and too scared to
move. She was awake the instant she
touched me, and screaming like a mad WO-
man, and l was awake then. my friend
finally, and claWing across that bed to q
window there was at the head of it, I
with one sweep of the jimmy, and
jumped