Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1896-02-01
D you believe in ghosts, second

Soeoeoooooooooooooeeeeoeeee
NO you believe in ghosts, second
sight, the temperance Of spir.
- Its In the flesh, GlynT asked
Jimmy Bellew, as we sat smoking one
evening In his quarters.
laughed. "vhat! John James Chris.
TOPPER Benjamin BInns3" quoted.
"That sort Of thing, eh2 Certainly not.
I do believe, though, In disordered
nerves and liver, the cure for which 10
. blue pill and blue ribbon. Why do |
you askY
Because" said he, as solemn AZ q |
Judge, ION two separate occasions I've |
seen with my own eyes q person knew |
to have been dead and buried for
years."
Jimmy was going to be married the
following week, which accounted for |
certain am6untof guinness On BILE part. |
= But to take such D at Of the jumps--ths |
night before our races, too-was q little
too much. @
"'who was II, man or woman"
asked.
"woman," he answered naturally. 1T
was queer business. I've never men.
toned It to any human being, but I'd
rather like to tell you, 0lyn, II you
don't mind listening"
"Fire away"
II met her ut Simla." he began slow.
~. II was doing A. .. Q. to Feathcrly
then. One Of the best looking women
you ever saw; magnificent eyes-but see
for yourself" taking from dispatch
box beside him leather case, which
he opened and handed to me. "Hand.
some face, chi? And exactly like her."
nodded. "A beautiful devil, a. bad
% they make EN-" was my mental YER
dict.
ut was the usual Kipling business"
he was thinking aloud, In short, die.
5olnted sentences. ''She began It,
fancy, out Of sheer deviltry-thcre was
some one elsa nice young girl-she
couldn't bear to see another woman"
A pause. "Don't you think, though,
that I blame her; was just 40 ready
to be made fool Of 40 she was to mako
Q fool Of me. 1t was an infatua ton
regular case Of possession II
lasted. We were inseparablc at Simla.
Later they were at our station-good
place for snipe-not far from headQuar.
ters-she came In to the balls-T took
to snipc shooting. And 20, for the best
part Of eighteen months 1t went on, un.
til-well! that sort Of madness WINS
bound to wear itself out. began to
recover my senses-she grew kcener
% I cooled off-made scenes whatever
II had been at the beginning, It was the
real thing with her then. Finally came
the climax. She wasn't violent. She
only said that, as no longer cared for
her, we had better part. What was to
be done? OF course I perjurcd myself
freely-t0 no purpose. She wished me
good.by.
Although We mny never meet
again. she said-I can hear her speak
ing now-'you are mine. only mine.
shall never give you up. Remember
that. Never attempt to put another
woman In my place. for II you do,
warn you. I shall come back, no mat.
ter where may be. even from the
grave, to claim my rights.'
'Thc next morning she was found
dead In her bed. An overdose Of choral
she took It for neuralgia accidental.
", 10 they said. Id give fve years Of
my life even now to be able to think 90"
He shivered. "It's an awful thing to
feel woman's death at ones door.
try to think she wasn't responsible"
"Couldn't have BEEN" Interrupted.
decidedly.
lie sighed. "Perhaps not. Anyhow.
4 gave me O shock. was on the high
road to D. r. or q lunatic asylum. when
Eeatherly got sent to Burmah aud took
me with him. The spell Of active ser.
vice made another man Of me. I start.
cd for home ct the end Of II pretty well
myself again. 1t was then she came ia
me-" His voice sank almost to wills.
Der, II was on deck one evening, talk.
Ing to q glrl-we'd been dancing-wheu
I looked around. There she stood by
my side, the moon shining full on her
face. jumped back; the steame,
gave iurch. and overheard I went
- They picked me up. but had
Q narrow shave Of brain fever. and. ai
you'll remember. reached homo q
wreck"
nodded. We had all noticed the
extraordinary change In poor Jimmy
when he rejoined. He went away full
OF life and spirit, the best Of company
He came back morbid. morose. without
Q word to say to bis old pals. and Il
was ages before he became his CHEEKY
self again. But Jimmy hadn't finished
"rhe next time was three years latel
ct Rathcoolan," he was saying. "wher
had dismissed the whole business
al a hallucination. We were out shoot
ing. had Just scrambled over fenc,
and was holding out my hand to hell
Miss Bourke. when felt touch on M!
arm, distinctly. There she was again
believe she pushed me away. Any
how. I slipped up, my gun went hyini
into the ditch. caught In o bramble
went OH, and lodged charge Of shot Il
my thigh-but you remember?-yo'
were there at the time. And now VIVA
do you think Of it2 II It were fancy
was deuced strange that ones nerve
should play one the same trick twice
without the slightest warning, chi"
"Not at ALL" declared. 1.-THE Rath
coolan accident, at all events, was tn