The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-11

II IS mistaken notion that ghosts
only appear at night and in the darkness, -
remarked a solemn looking young man TO
his neghbor at dinner, says the New York
Tribune. II have seen one in broad day
light in Wall street"
How absurd" laughed the pretty girl
to whom he was talking.
Fact I assure YOU" continued the Sc
rious youth. Il have seen her several
times, and 1 am sure she is a ghost How
do / know? On, by her general appear
aEce. Once I saw through her-and. be-
SIDES That, she seems to sort of float in
stead of walking. But the thing that
really convinced me she is a spirit is
that l am sure I am the only person that
sees her. The last time she appeared to
me was a month ago. DiS l tell you she
was a typewriter? That is, imagined she
must have been one when living She
carriers a roll OF papers and is almost as
pretty as you are. Well, as / was say
ing no one seems to notice her, A newsboy
ran right up against her, or rather, as It
seemed TO me. through her, and he never
sWerVed, and a horrid old stockbroker 1
know, who always stares at pretty wo-
man. passed her by without a glance
she IS evidently haunting me alone, but
why cannot imagine. 1 feel cold shiv-
efs run down my back whenever I meet
her ana am sure L am singled out for
some purpose. What would you do about
ft?"
Are you really serious?" querled his
companion
1 really am" returned the man with
apparent conviction. Il am haunted by
me 9ayLght ghost of a pretty typewriter,
I zee. that nave a mission to give
peace to her troubled soul"
is Mr.. y "A LITTLE oraar9,, ,-,-., A. =
sirl OF her hostess after the women had
returned to the drawing room. And she
ie'ated the foregoing conversation. WAS
ne Trying TO quiz me- or did he. like the
ancient Mariner, feel impeIled to tell
ms tale to some particular person ana
therefore single me out?'
a week or two later she again met Mr.
Co.., MS time it was al ball How is
'V "I Bhost she asked him hippantlv.
nave round out all about her." he
exclaimed solemniy Come with mo in
to supper and VIII tell Won All her l,i -
toiy' You know he began after he had
supplied her and himself with chicken
cIoquette and salad and taken his seat
al the little table, that | told Won that
'"ousht was haunted by that girl for
purpose and so 1 was. The dav after I
TAXED 10 you about her [ saw her again
ana thought l would follow her TRY as
mlsht l could not overtake her. she
was always about ten feet in front of me
sometimes the crowd would separate us.
Out / would soon see her again fitting
"Hoau' Always at the same distance. She
| continued for couple of blocks i'm wall
street, and then turned into pearl s+reer
| stopped before an open stairway next to
small cigar shop, and, turning toward
| me, beckoned slightly but Enthusiastically
| lHeh Slded up the stairs | following At
| the Top was an open door leading into an
| empty ONCE, where near an open window
! was desk upon which stood a typa-
| writer. Once more the girl turned to-
| Naru me, pointed to the desk, and then,
! 10 my horror, sDrang out on the narrow
| window ledge and apparently pIung-
| ed INTO space. l rushed to the window
ana looked down. In the street below the
| people We're walking to and fro as usual
! ana TO my great relief, there was no evil
| dehce or the tragedy l had feared for
| although l told you l thought she was a
| ghost l did not actually believe it until
| mat moment. Going downstairs l enter
! ed the cigar shop, and buying some ciga-
| rettes engaged the proprietor in CONVEX
| satlon, in the course of which he told me
| that five years before a tragic event oc-
| Cured in the building. A young girl COM
| mtted suicide by jumping from the win
DeeD
| some money lost in the office where she
| had been employed as typewriter, she had
| been suspected and her self-inficted
| death confirmed her employers in the be
| lief Of hep dishonesty. AS he talked
| began to discover the reason why | had
| been haunted. 1 am of what is generally
! known as a receptive nature, that is,
| have been told so by my friends that ex-
! pertinent with magnetism and the 50
| called spiritual manifestations. My theory
| Is that l was chosen on that account t.
| prove her innocence to the world for ]
went to her employers, told them the
| whole story, and insisted, despite their
| scepticism, upon a thorough examination
| Of the dead girls desk Back of one OF
! the drawers was an empty enclosed space
| formed by the construction of the desk
| the back board of the drawer had become
| slightly showed down, and through this
| aperture the missing money had undoubt-
edly fallen, for 1t was found at the bottom
| of the empty boxlike space. OF course
she, in her spiritualized condition became
| aware of this fact. and as was but nat
ural, sought a medium to whom she could
discover it,"
did Mr. X. make that all up, do you
ihink?" said the society girl afterward
cor does he believe 1t himself?'