The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-09-07
r." Miss R. was Scotch nurse
on the floor above, whom had never
seen but had often heard mentioned.

was the rcjolnder; besides, she does not
look at all like Miss c., either; she
has very dark hair" And the doctor
pondered, and shook his head and re-
peated: strange! | do not see who
it could have been" Again he ques-
| toned us about the details of the Incl.
| dent, ruminated over them, and was as
baffled by them as before. At length
we turned to other subjects, and after
we had concluded our pleasant visit to
the doctor. we went to the opposite
wing of the building to see my kind
nurse. We passed Miss G--'s door,
standing partly open, apparently at still
| just the same angle as before. pushed
it back little and stepped in to look
around ''for auld acquaintance sake"
The room was unoccupied and un-
| changed from the days when used to
pass through it to the terrace.
! We made our call on the fraulein in
my old room. OF course the loss Of
Miss c. was spoken of, and again we
mentioned the person whom we had
seen and mistaken for her sister. fam
cied that Fraulein A would proba-
! bly, furnish some explanation of the
occurrence. But she seemed even more
at loss than the doctor had been.
Some one coming out G her room?
| with a nurses cap on? 1t is very
strange;" and fraulein looked puzzled
even to anxiety.
at must have been Miss r."
again suggested.
why, Miss R has dark hair"
was the rejoinder.
! Il am not sure about the color of the
hair" replied. II was struck with
the resemblance in the profile and
| contour of the face, and in the form
and carriage of the person"
II certainly think the hair was
color to Miss G-'s; but cannot be
sure, as so much was covered by the
cap"
| But Miss R has gone out this aft
ernoon," said fraulein; ''and, If she had
been in, she would probably have been
upstairs, anyway; and she does not
look at all like Miss c." Fraulein
| looked troubled. SIT is very strange
very strange, indeed" she said; land
J
been patient, then"
The more she turned it over in her
mind the more perplexing the prob
lem grew.
] When we had finished our visit and
were once more alone together, Carl
and | speculated further on this
| strange incident. We had both of us
seen the woman distinctly; that was
undeniablc. We had both been imme-
diately struck with the resemblance
to Miss C.. True, we neither of us
had ever seen Miss c. wearing q
nurses cap; and this individual did not
have short, lambert flames, but smooth.
ly parted locks. Still she otherwise
looked amazingly like the deceased
person. Now here were two of us
sure that we had seen this figure glide
| to and fro in front of us in the cor.
ridor, and then vanish beyond that
partly open door. On the other hand
here were two credible and indie
pendent witnesses who insisted that
there was no living person in the pre-
cincts corresponding to what we had
seen.
What did this mean? Had we really
been vouchsafed sight of one of those
occult phenomena" of which Mr.
Stead, Mr.. Haweis and others say sc
much? Was this really one of the
Thought bodies whose ability tt
manifest themselves after death, Mr.
| Haweis regards as of 'incalculable i'm
portance," since they prove that the
| ", -
admit that many things favored thi.
conclusion. And it harmonized with
the noiseless, gliding figure, the fail
ure to look at or to speak to us and
the seeming aimlessness, in an ordinary
mortal, of going few yards down tbs
corridor, and then going directly back
whereas a spirit DESTROYS to show itsel,
might naturally pass twice before u.
for this very purpose. All the circum
stances taken together made it Difficult,
to account for what we had seen, ex
cept on the theory that our apparitior
actually belonged to what Mr.. Haweis
calls 1.-The puzzling residuum of indis
putable but unintelligible phenomena.
On this supposition we did not, to be
sure, feel that acce ssion of faith in inn
mortality which Mr.. Haweis think:
ought to result from kindred expert
ences, for that faith we still felt thai
the grand statements of Scripture arr
much firmer foundation; but we did
/ confess it, experience certain ex
hilaration of spirits in the thought o.
having actually seen live ghost.
But the Neils are persistently ad
dicted to testing things. TRY thu
spirits" seems to be their instinct. Ole
habits of mind led us to demand more
evidence than would have satisfied
many. Carl" l said, there is ont
thing more we can try; you can go vi
to the hospital again in the morning
and see Miss R for yourself. 70,
know how often persons are governed
almost wholly by complexion in trac
ing resemblances; she may not look 81
utterly unlike Miss G., as DR.. s. ant
Fraulein A. represent. And possibl,
she may not have been out, although
they thought she was"
Accordingly the next morning Car
called on Miss R.. Her hair was dark
decidedly dark. Her manner and Mt
terance were very unlike Miss G. 8
But the features, especially the profit,
and the high cheek bones. were simila
to the matron's Carl made these in
quiries of her, whether she had bee,
at home when she was supposed t.
have been out ON the afternoon pre
vious; whether she had been dow
from her ward to the matron's