Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-02-02

pened than few muttered remarks
about the laughter of fools and want
of reverence for sacred subjects being
the sign of shallow mind.
we tried Hes stern" and Ellis
turn" and the fear of Hesturnemy,"
and tried to think who "Hesturnemy"
might be.
Three times we went over the whole
thing again from the beginning, which
meant six hundred and six fittings of
the table; and then suddenly the ex-
PLANTATION struck me: eastern Henri
sphere" whitley had asked it for in
formation it might possess concerning
his wife's uncle, from whom he had not
heard for months, and that, apparently,
was it's idea of an address
The fame of Whibley's spirit became
noised abroad, with the result that
Whibleywas able to command the will
ing service of more congenial assist
ants, and Jobstock and myself were
dismissed. But we bore no malice.
Under these more favorable condi-
tions, the spirit plucked up wonderfully
and talked everybody's head off. 1t
could never have been cheerful COM
panion, however, for ITS conversation
was chiefly confined to warnings and
prognostications of evil. About once a
fortnight whitley would drop round
on me in friendly way to tell me that
] was to beware of man who lived in
street beginning with G; or to in
form me that if / would go to town
on the coast where there were three
churches l would meet some one who
would do me an irreparable injury, and
that did not rush off then and there
in search of that town he regarded as
flying in the face of Providence. In Its
passion for poking its ghostly nose into
other peoples affairs it reminded me Of
my earthly friend Poppleton. Nothing
pleased it better than being appealed
to for aid and advice, and whitley
who was perfect slave to it, woul6
hunt half over the parish for people in
trouble and bring them to it.
1t would direct ladies, eager for di
vorce court evidence, to go to the thirt
house from the corner of the fifth
street past such and such a church, OF
public house lit never would give
a plain, straightforward address) ant
ring the bottom bell but one twice
They would thank it effusively, ant
next morning would start to find thu
| fifth street past the church, and woult
ring the bottom bell but one of thu
third house from the corner twice; ant
a man in his shirt sleeves would com,
to the door and ask them what the,
wanted
They could not tell what the,
wanted; they did not know themselves
and the man would use bad languag
and slam the door in their faces.
Then they would think that perhap
the spirit meant the fifth street tn
other way, or the third house from tn
opposite corner, and would try again
with still more unpleasant results.
One July l met whitley incoming
disconsolately along Princes street
Edinburgh.
"Hullo!" l exclaimed. "What ar
you doing here? thought you wer
busy over that school board case?"
eyes," he answered. II ought real
ly to be in London, but the truth is In
rather expecting something to happe1
down here"
"Oh" said, land what's that?"
well" he replied, hesitatingly, a
though he would rather not talk abou
it; 81 don't exactly know yet"
you've come from London to Edir
burgh and don't know what you'v
come for" cried.
well, you see" he said, still NOR
reluctantly, as it seemed to me, lit wa
Marias idea. She wished"
"Mariaw l interrupted, looking pc,
haps little sternly at him. who
Maria?" .(His wife's name knew wa
Emily Georgina Anne.)
"Oh, | forgot" he explained, 'sh
never would tell her name before yo,
would she? It's the spirit, you know,
''Oh, that" said, ''it's she that hi
sent you here. Didn't she tell yo
what fof?"
h. NO" he answered, "that's VIII;
worries me. All she would say wa
Go to Edin understanding will hal
PEN"
"And how long are you going to r.
main here?" inquired
II don't know" he replied; 'T,
been here a week already, and 10
stock writes quite angrily, ] wouldn
have come if Maria hadn't been
urgent. She repeated it three evening
running"
hardly knew what to do. The Ii
tie man was so dreadfully in earne
about the business that one could n,
argue much with him.
You are sure" said, after thinkir
awhile, that this Maria is a GOO
spirit? There are all sorts going abou
I'm told. You're sure this isn't IL
spirit of some deceased lunatic playir
,, the fool with your"
] I've thought of that" he admitte
, "Of course that might be so. If not
; ing happens soon shall almost beg
, to suspect it."
"Well, should certainly make son
inquiries into its character before
trusted it any further" answere
, and left him.
t About a month later l ran again
, him outside the law courts.
: ut was all right about Maria"
said. Something did happen in Edi
bureh while l was there. That vel
' morning | met you one of my olde
| clients died quite suddenly at his hou
| at Queensferry, only few miles on
5 side the city"
S Pm glad of that" I answered;
S mean, OF course, for Maria's sake