Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-10-30

third column. about half way down.
alright, said the other. Hello!
he added a moment later, that's odd.
isn't its''
s.Oddl It's terrible Poor Brownr'
cts odd. very odd, Randall re-
peated. So the Yankoeland was in col
lision, ehs Nothing said about anybody
being injured /"
They've suppressed that part.
groaned Ferguson. Poor old Brown !
Can't we do somethings Let's 80 to his
rooms. They may have had word there. "
Every well, said Randall, rising
and putting on his hat I'm with you.
But If / were you / wouldn't give mp
hope by any manner of means =
AS the pair approached the house in
which Brown had lodgings that gentle
man opened the door and came down
the steps. Ferguson gave cry Of relief
at sight of him. Randall laughed
softly. sYou didn't take the boat
them he asked.
mo. ] was-er-detained, Brown
stammered. I'm going TO Forty
street now to catch a train =
''Have you seen the papers?' Fergu
son put in. "Great Eastern run mp, and
the Yankeeland run down. Notice itg'
eve read the items, Brown con-
fessed. Curious coincidence, so TO
speak. wasn't it? I'll don't know just
what to make of it. =
'You We been saved in spite Of your
self. You ought to be mighty thank
full, . said Ferguson, little warmly.
''Oh, I'll be honest with you, re-
sponded Brown with an effort. II
wasn't actually detained--that is, l
might have caught the boat But it had
occurred 10 me- had four. days 10
think things over, you know--that per-
haps by staying in town and waiting to
see if the Yankeeland met with an acoi-
dent I'd have just as good chance TO
prove the falsity of the omen"
do you call it proved falseg"
"Uml Hardly, hardly, said Brown.
"An unfortunate incident, very unfor-
tunate. | must say. II has almost unset
tied my convictions Aud he glanced
about him nervously.
You II be taking a car at the cor
ner," said Randall. well toddle
along with you.
The three had advanced hardly 80
feet when Brown dashed from between
his companions and ran to the gutter
Look outr' he cried. Don't you
see those painters at work overhead?
They're ON ladder. Don't walk under
it. It's unlucky.
No sooner had this peril been avoided
than he dropped to his knees and fell to
picking at a crack in the sidewalk.
Horribly unlucky to pass that, " he
explained, lifting pin from the
crevice.
$50 I've been told, " said Randall,
with chuckle. Ferguson lacked words
appropriate to the occasion.
They halted at the corner, but Brown
pretended not to see the first car which
passed. The others saw it very plainly.
1t was No 49, They put their friend
aboard the next, which proved to have a
number above suspicion.
'This affair beats me, :" said Fergu-
SON soberly. "What ails Brown any
way?'
Nothing much, replied Randall,
"only he's gone from one extreme to
the other. He didn t believe anything.
Now he believes everything. That's
all.
at don't blame him-after such an
escape.
"You think the spirits warned him9"
"Who else?'
Zone Brown. -
"He warned himself? ImpossibleH'
''Not at all His own memory did
the business.
memory of something to happen in
the futurel That nonsense.
"No more nonsense than isnewborn
fears.
II give up the conundrum What's
the answer"
81 can t tell you in a word. You rec
olleet the book he lent me the other
night, don't you? Well, he'd been read
ing it the evening before-at least so he
told me land that was the evening pre-
ceding the vision When / got home,
took off the old newspaper in which the
book had been wrapped and fell to
MISUNDERSTANDING about, you under
stand. Pretty soon / found a piece OF
paper stuck between two pages, evident
" to mark the place where Brown had
stopped Not being much interested in
the book, begun TO look over the sliI
and what do you suppose it was? The
very fragment Brown had seen in his
dreamP
'sEh?''
Eyes, sir. The very same. Then
thought of the paper which had been
around the book, picked it up from the
floor
go on, man. Go on cried Fergu-
son.
"And found that the small piece just
fitted q hole in it. That newspaper was
nearly six months old, as it had to be
to contain a quotation Of Great Eastern
at 90. 1t was clear enough what had
happened. Brown, when he tore off the
slip to stick in the book, read both sides
of it without really knowing what he
was doing. Then he must have dreamed
about it, and you know as well as | de
what resulted.
''But the accident to the steamer-ii
was a sound steamer -
puget sound. The item was reprinted
from western paper and was duly
credited. There has been acurious coin
cidence, that's fact, but the warning
theory is rather spoiled. .
The pair strobe on in silence for {