The Van Buren press., 1895-08-03
H-.." Miss r. was ! Scotch nurse
on the floor above, whom had never

w"S 'Ae reJoinoeri 'besldee, she does not
look ct al like Miss c., either, she
has very dark hair" And the doctor
pondered, and shook his head and re.
peated: "Strangel I do not see who
It could have BEEN" Again he cues
TONED US about the details OF the Incl.
dent, ruminated over them, and was a.
baxf1ed 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 SEQ nv kind
nurse. We passed Miss G--'s door.
standing partly open, apparently at still
justine same angle as before Ipushed
IT back little and stepped in to look
around "for auld acquaintance sake. y
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 explapation Of the
occurrence But she seemed even more
alta loss than the doctor had been.
Some one coming out of her room2
with nurses cap on? 1t is very
strange;" and fraulein looked INHALED
even to anxiety
ut must have been Miss R-."I
again suggested.
why, Miss R has dark hair. "
was the rejoinder.
II am not sure about the color of the
hair,"I replied. 'sT was struck with
the resemblance in the profile and
contour of the face, and in the form
and carriage Of the person. q
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; land, II she had
been in, she would probably have been
upstairs, anyway; and she does not
look at all like Miss Co." Fraulein
looked troubled. SIT is very strange
very strange, indeed" she said; .'and
with nurses capt could not have
been a patient, then"
The more she turned 1t 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 l speculated further on this
strange incident. We had both OF us
seen the woman distinctly; that was
undeniable. We had both been imme-
diately struck with tho 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, lambent flames, but smooth
ly parted locks. Still she otherwise
looked amazingly like, the deceased
person. Now here were two OF Ms
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 inde-
pendent witnesses who insisted that
there was no living person, in the pre-
cincts corresponding to what we had
seen. s,.'7-z ~ SCR hre tsesigsaY9
What did this meant Had we really
been vouchsafed q sight of one of those
occult dphenomena" of which Mr..
Stead, Mr.. Haweis and others say 30
much? Was this really one OF the
s.thoughti bodlssr whose ability to
manifest themselves after death, M.
Haweis regards as Of 'incalculable i'm
portance," since they prove that the
dead are -aliveT' = We were forced to
admit that many things favored this
conclusion, And It hsrmonized with
the noiseless. gliding fgure,It fail-
urei to loolcs ATTIC TO speak sosus and
the seeming aimlcssness, In an ordinary
mortal, of going few yards down the
corridor, and then going directly back,
whereas spirit DESTROYS to show itself
might naturally pass twice before ua
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 apparition
actually belonged to what Mr. Haweis
calls "the puzzling residuum Of indis,
putable but unintelligible phenomena. !"
On this superstition No did met to- be
sure, feel that accession OF faith in i'm
mortality which Mr.. Haweis thinks
ought to result from kindred expert.
ences, for that faith we still felt that
the grand statements Of Scripture are
. much firmerss foundation, but we did.
I, confess II, experiences q certain OK.
hilaration af spirits In the thought Of
having actually seen a live ghost.
But the Neils arc persistently ad-
dicted to testing things Try tho
| spirits" seems to be their instinct. Old
habits Of mind led us to demand more
evidence than would have satisfied
many. "Carl," I said, ."there is ono
thing more we can try; you can go up
to the hospital again In the morning
and see Miss R. for yourself You
almost wholly by complexion in trac-
ing resemblances; she may not look 20
utterly unlike Miss G., Us DR.. g. and
Fraulein A. represent. And possibly
she may not have been out, although
they Thought she was. ~. stt ~ n
Accordingly the next morning Carl
called on Miss r.. Her hair was dark,
decidedly dark. Her manner and ut
tcrance were. very unlike Miss G.'a
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 matron's;
whether she had noticed US ss we
mo Inland ahe had-N. Y, Inde-