The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-11
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thought continually OF the bill sold in i'm
az nation. contrasting 1t with the sad real
! Ivy. Next day the same conditions mani
| Tested themselves. lay ne In trance all
day. Cblivious to everything. Towards
evening regained consciousness. My wife
! was Ia tears, and the doctors had not left
my bedside for several hours. expecting
inomentary dissolution.
"Wifo!'' / cried. 81 had another beautl-
| ful vision / sold Warehouse a Jones
over $4,000 worth of goode and ! proceed
ed to give tho details of the sale to the
/ smallest item distinctly remembered
| having borrowed Stamped envelope from
the firm to send the order IN, | was in
glee over my Imaginary success.
! Young man. said the doctor. watwlngly.
| You must positively cease troubling about
! business If you wish % get well. This
anxiety viii lNll you and then what will
your poor wife do? Get well. aud then 20
out and sell all the goods you Ike"
! I turned my face 10 The wall and sobbed
| like child for ! knew how different my
| waking moment were from these visions.
| finally | promised to look at matters
cheerfuly, and not 10 worry
Next day and the next day, and every
| day Tor several weeks, IT was the same.
| | lay in bed unconscious my spiri, busy
! with Imaginary sales and on awakening
! / invariably had a story to erall of mar
velousy big order taken during the day.
| | rccollcct the most absurd details. Once
| ! had broken strap of one Of my trunks;
| once ] went back to store in search of
| some important samples I had forgotten.
| once | made one of the salesladies n pres
cnt OF an embroidered shawl All these
! things remained craven upon my memory,
rs though they had been real. Instead OF
/ the rawlings of diseased mind. | invaria-
| by aw0ko toward dusk and became ra-
came rational, but my health made very
| little prOgross. | became thinner and more
| detected with every day.
! So IT. went On until in my somnambulistic
| state | had visited every customer on my
| route, Not one turned me down. sold
them all wonderful bills OF goods. For n
few d1ys | lowered between life and DEATH
| and then / gradually began TO mend
| month afterwards, thanks 10 my wife's
coed nursing, had recovered sufficiently
| 10 go home My first visit was 10 my
| firm ! wanted TO apologize for my lack
| OF success and to explain about my long
| illness The head of the house shook me
| cordially by the hand
Clad TO soc You, he said. "Wbnt's the
matter? Been sick? by love. you look
thin. Well why did you work 70 bard II
You wern't feeling sell? You did i'm
mensely. Fine orders every one Of them
and to good parties At first yon seemed
little down in the mouth. but after the
10th Of January you sent them n at a
rne to make our heads swlm,"
looked at the boss in drunken amaze
ment. Was he making fun OF me?
"PIeasc CONT" said weakly. I'm not
IN condition to stand much. know
did poorly. hut n you knew"
Poorly Why my dear boy, II you cali
10000 In me month poor. I'd like 10 see
you al your best"
might see my orders?" stammarod.
Certainly. Go to the office and ask the
boOkkccpcr to show them IN you"
There before Law "A lgZyiinu urrnt- nf
orders, beginning with Dodd Co Wator-
house Il Jones, and so on through the en-
tire list Of the people ] had sold 10 In my
dreams. Not one was mis- Ing. The roodA
cOrrcspOndod exactly With the items aH
had dreamed them. For while was too
dazcd 10 speak. Finally I asked;
"Hayc lbese goods all been shipped"
"Y,s, and most of the bills have already
been paid"
How did these orders get hcre?"
"By mail. In the usual way
wont homo with my heai in n whlrl
and irld my wife. She was as much aston
ishcd az I was, However, the fact re-
mninod that had n good fat commission
to my credit and that my FIR n considered
me n success. Under the Influence Of those
facts ] soon recovered my Spirits and ny
flesh.
Next reoscn went ofer my territory
again ] first called on Dodi g. Co. They
smoke very enthusiastically about my new
proceeded 10 place anotner order.
Said to the buyer
40 you remember when was here
last2"
"of course do! I'll never forget it''
"Why2"
well, my boy. I'll tell you. When you
came In II was az though a ghost had on
tered There was something cold and un-
canny about YOU which We afterwards tried
40 analyzo. We had already bought. as
you kncw. but you looked at us Ia such
way aud used such deuced confusing ar
gumenta thai we were impclisd against our
will TO buy. For week we spoke about
your strange appearance
~ was III" ! fastened to explain
you looked as though you had been
dead and In your grave"
AT Waierhouse & Jones' heard tho same
story. Said Mr.. Jones:
III had not known YOU so well. would
have sworn that ! held q pariay With
ghost Moreover. your glance was 10 b.p-
motto that couldn't resist II, and bought
against my better Judgment. it look me Q
week 10 recover from the weird effect OF
your yfsit."
] heard the same tale wherever went.
Every accident, tho breaking of my trunk
strap. the giving OF the shawl, the for
getting Of the samples. had occurred JTe-
clselv as I had seen them In my vision.
Every customer spoke In the sasIe creepy
way II the uncanny suppression had left |
behind. have but one explanation y
eBer. and. fsutasttc thoesh ~ J etall