The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-19

the mead and confined that breadth of lace.
She never moved from the place, but She
often turned slightly from side 10 side. as
II some one were near her, as if some
event or her life were engrossing her |
could not see the figure I am sure was
beside her, for the wall was in the way.
She came very regularly. There were
Two windows in my room. could see her
from either of them. The vision-if it
was Vls1on-greW very distinct as dark
ness covered the sky, and then slowly van
lshed. John, the old colored man who
brought Goals for my fire, told me no ono
mad ever occupied that room in the many
years he was serYitor at the AAonongahe ;.
mere used 10 be a ghost at the Astor
House IN New York. No one ever saw
II, but in the big parlor it was often
heard There was a bare space on tn.
marble floor at the archway dividing the
long room and across this space, the men
tell me, the ghost often used to stride
lie was booted at least, and maybe spur
Ied. anyway, his invisible heels clacked
steadily and sturdily across that marble
space from parlor to parlor, irregular of
PERIOD uncertain of interval. but unmis-
taxable when he did come; as if he were
searching in the lofty rooms for some
ghostly love whose coming alone could
END that mysterious search and Law a ner-
turbed spirit. One of the men who had
heard it told me he thought there was a
legend that in war time a soldiers love
promised TO meet him there and begged
MIN to come, and that he abandoned DUTY
in the army and dared everything for the
sight of her-but lost | do NOT helie,-a
the legend. Such constancy would he re-
Warded even in New York-yea. even in
a ghost
At the Old National Hotel in Norfoll,
there was the ghost of a careless maid
who dropped tray of dishes right at the
! Threshold of the unopened door then
| q hnl
! hap-and was gone. She might come to
| any room. She might come any time I
| never heard her, but one evening lust as
L came from a drive in Queen Anne road
| and was but fairly in my room a lady
bounded in from the hall too frightened 70
have been imagining. Her room adioin-
ing my own She had heard of the ghost
ly serving maid, and had but in the mo-
| mei1t preceded my coming heard that clat-
ter of silver and clash of ware; had heard
the little terrified scream-and had known
the ghost. But as no dishes lay there on
the Threshold, as no dainty repast was
scattert a about, l comforted the woman
LAUGHING at her n little-my own heart
sure she was right-and counted one more
| hotel ghost
At one On the elevators in the Palace Ho-
tel, San FEancisco, was Chinaman ghost.
He seemed to slip from under the car as
1t descended, just missing the crushing
weight, and escaping sometimes on one
side, sometimes on another, but never on
the open side where guests went in and
out. He chatte red an excited and quite
unintelligibe protest or comment or con-
graduation, l cannot know which He
might not be thGEe for months at a time
and yet he was sure to come. / heard him
once, and the boy at the rope grinned, for
he had heard it beA' ore.
you have hurt him" cried. The bow
shook his head. He to ID me afterward that
when the ways WeT oiled there was no
jabbering Chnaman. Is ut this was the only
hotel ghost that ever broke faith with me.
1 was sitting at dinner in the old Grand
Pacific one time, when I heard a man and
a woman near me talking off ghosts !
could not see them-the man end the wo-
man, l mean--but / was sure they were
right. The man said
You see that old lady over there at the
table by the wi ndow?"
1t was not 1. for my table was by post
The woman admitted she saw.
Notice she has service for twzO and
dinner for two?''
Again the won an, after conscientious
| inspection, assented.
''She lives here and has for years. Her
husband used 20 1--we here with her. II icy
met at table, he from his office i'm he
street, she from her apartments upstaif $
One day he failed to come. Later the o4 =
ficers asked about him. There was a mar.
ter OF defaIcat ton, or something of that
kind. She swore he had eaten with her
that day. The waiter admitted he had serv-
ed for two; he didn't remember, in the null
tiplicity of his duties, whether one or two
were there. But he knew he had brought
the food for two. She still insists when in
quiries are made, that he ate with her
at the last meal. Breakfast, luncheon and
dinner-it is always the same. She Is serv-
ed with the service for two, and she paws
for two. She pours his tea-see her? Now. -
1t was true. l think she saw him loyalIy-
there by her side, To her he was real. To
me 1t was another ghost. and one with the
appealing and convincing quality of deep
sorrow about it. I wonder if, in the new
hotel, they two will be reunited
How do / account for them? don't ac-
count. steadfaetly refuse TO explain them