Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-08-15

standing partly open, apparently at still
just the same angle as before, pushed
1t 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 1t 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. fan,
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 Of her room?
with a nurses cap on? 1t is very
strange and fraulein looked puzzled
even to anxiety
1T must have been Miss Ri
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
light reiterated Carl, similar in
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, il she had
been in, she would probably have been
upstairs, anyway; and she does not
look at all like Miss C." Traulein
looked troubled. ut is very strange
very strange, indeed she said; and
with nurses capt could not have
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 ] specialized further on this
strange incident. We had both OF us
seen the woman distinctly; that was
undeniable We had both been imme
dlately struck with the resemblance
to Miss c.. True, we neither OF us
had ever seen Miss c. wearing a
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
rldor, 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. lIaweis and others say so
much? Was this really one Of the
Thought bodies whose ability to
manifest themselves after death, Mr.
Haweis regards as of "incalculable inn
portance,' since they prove that the
dead are alive We were forced to
admit that many things favored this
conclusion. And ii 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 u few yards down the
corridor, and then going directly back,
whereas spirit DESTROYS to show itself
might naturally pass twice before us
for this very purpose. All the crcum-
stances taken togcthe made it difficult
to account for what we had seen, OK
cept on the theory that our apparition
actually belonged to what Mr. Ilaweis
calls "the puzzling residuum of indis-
putable but unintelligiblc phenomena
On this supposition we did not, to be
sure, feel that accession Of faith in i'm
mortality which Mr., llaweis thinks
ought to result from kindred expert.
ences, for that faith we still felt that
the grand statements Of Scripture are
a much tirmer foundation; but we did,
| confess it, experience certain cx-
hilaration Of spirits in the thought Of
having actually seen a live ghost
But the Neils are persistently ad
dcted to testing things. Try the
spirits seems to be their instinct. Old
habits of mind led us to demand more
evidence than would have satisfied
many. Carl" said, there is one
thing more we can try; you can go up
to the hospital again in the morning
and see Miss R for yourself. You
know how often persons are governed
almost wholly by complexion in trac-
ing resemblances; she may not look so
utterly unlike Miss c., as Dr. $, and
Fraulein A represent And possibly
she may not have been out, although
they thought She was.
Accordingly the next morning Carl
called on Miss R Her hair was dark,
decidedly dark Her manner and ut
teranee were very unlike Miss e. S.
But the features, especially the profile
and the high cheek bones, were similar
to the matron's. Carl made these in
quiries of her, whether She had been
at home when She was supposed to
have been out on the afternoon pre-
vious; whether she had been down
from her ward to the matrons;
whether She had noticed us as we
came in-and size hd- Y, indie.
pendent
The life Of more than one girl has
been blighted because she had
mother who made her 60 to church in
faded gown and last years bonnet