Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1896-04-10
numl whnt Of it1n Randall asked.

third column, about half way down"
"All right, " said the other. "Helloi"
he added a moment later, that's odd,
isn't itY"
"Oddl It's terrible. Poor Brownr'
ITS odd. very odd" Randall re-
ported. $50 the Yankeeland was in col
lision, CHI Nothing said about anybody
being injured"
They've suppressed that part"
groaned Ferguson. Poor old Brownl
Can't we do something? Let's 90 to his
rooms. They may have had word there"
VERY WELL" said Randall, rising
and putting on his hat. I'm with you.
But il l were you l wouldn't give up
hope by any manner Of means."
As the pair approached tho house in
which Brown had lodgings that gentle
man opened the door and came down
the steps. Ferguson gave a cry Of relief
at sight Of him. Randall laughed
softly. "You didn't take the boat
them" he asked.
mo, l wag-er-detaiued," Brown
stnmmered. I'm going to Forty-second
street now to catch q train"
"Haye you seen the papers7" Fergu-
son put in. "Great Eastern run up, and
the Yankoeland run down. Notice it?"
1--WE read tho items, " Brown con-
Tossed. Curious coincidence. so to
speak, wasn't it? IL don't know just
what to make Of It."
you've been saved in spite Of your
self. You ought 10 be mighty thank
full" said Ferguson, q little warmly.
ooh I'LL 10 kn,,aok x-tNI, 49,, - -.
sponded Brown with an effort. II
wasn't actually d~etained-that is, 1
might have caught tho boat. But it had
occurred to mel bad four days to
think things over, you know-thnt PER-
haps by staying in town and waiting to
see If the Yankeelsnd met with an acct
dent I'd have just al good a chance to
prove the fslsity of tho omen"
do you call it proved false?"
"Uml Hardly, hardly, " said Brown.
"An unfortunate incident, very unfor-
tied my convictions" And he glanced
about him nervously.
You'll be taking a car Mt tho cor
ner," eaid Randall "We'n toddle
along with you"
The throe had advanced hardly so
feet when Brown dashed from between
his companions and ran to tho gutter.
Look outl" he cried. Don't You
see those painters at work overhead?
They're on a ladder. Don't walk under
it. It's un~lucky."
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 n pin from the
c~revice.
$50 I've been told" said Randall,
with q chuckle. Ferguson lacked words
appropriate to the occasion.
They halted at the r but Brown
pretended not TO sec tho first car which
passed. The others saw it very plainly.
1t was No. IS. 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 Como from ono extreme tc
the other. He didn't boliove anything.
Now he believes everything. That's
all"
II don't blame him-after such an
escape"
You think the spirits warned him?''
"Who olso?"
Zone Brown"
"Ho warned himself? Impossible p
"Not Mt oil. His own memory did
tho business"
"Memory of something to happen in
the future! That's nonsense"
"No more nonsense than his newborn
fears"
II give up tho conundrumA What's
the answer"
II can't tell you in n word. You rec.
ollect the book no lent me the other
night, don't you? Well, ho'd been read.
ing it the evening before-at least so he
told me and that was the evening pre-.
ceding the vision. Whom I got home, ]
took Off tho old newspaper in which the
book had been wrapped and fell tc
sklmming-skipping about, you under.
stand. Pretty soon l found a piece OF
paper stuck between two pages, evident.
ly to mark tho place where Brown had
stopped. Not being much interested in
the book, l begun to look oyer tho sir
and what do you suppose it was? The
very fragment Brown had seen in his
dreamp'
"Eh?"
"Yes, sir. Tho very same, Then ]
thought of the paper which had been
around this look, picked it mp from the
floor
go on, man. Go onr' cried Fergu-
son.
"And found that the small piece just
fitted a holo in it. That newspaper wa
nearly six months old, as it had to be
to contain a quotation of Great Eastern
at 30. 1t was clear enough what had
happened. Brown, when he tore on 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 1 dc
what resulted.
but the accident TO tho steamor-it
WAS "a sound steamer
Puget sound. The item was reprinted
from a western paper and was duly