Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-04
B0WD|TCH, WEBSTER & co.
DRUGGISTS.

! light, throwing into sharp relief the
sash, and lighting the room with a
sudden glare. AS l was getting my
developer ready something attracted
my attention and paused to STE what
it was. Then I knew Up those
stairs | could hear the same old foot
steps coming, pausing oco OCCASIONALLY
just as they used TO. They followed
through the old library ard seemed
| to come through the new! wall as
though 1t wasn't there. The steps halt
ed for a moment at the point where my
old desk used to set and then went on
up to the little room where. the patent
records used to be-
"Uncanny? Well. just a bit. Never
theless, l went ahead with my develop
Ing, though once in a. while l could
hear the old man noving round up
stairs as though he Was getting a new
book. l got down to my last holder
and this l knew contained one unex-
posed plate. but having put the slide
in wrong after exposure l could not
] tell which one it was There was moth
| ing to do but put in the first one that
came to hand. If it was my picture
! the other plate was saved, but if
nothing showed up l would know that
the other plate held the picture want
ed. I opened the holder and placed
the plate in the tray. Then I turned
! the developer over t. For a moment
nothing was apparent and just as
was on the point of turning the de-
veloper back into the graduate, l de-
tected what appeared to be the shad-
owy outlines of picture. 1t begS n
slowly to perfect itself. but mag, ne
my surprise when l found that 1t was
the picture of a person that was com
ing into view instead Of the old. church
| had photographed.
Il said to myself that sorAeoN. must
have gotten In range Of the camera
just as I made the exposure. though
/ would have taken my oath fifteen
minutes before that such was not
the case. The ruby light by which l
was working was not strong enough to
show anything beyond the fact that
had the photograph of pei son where
supposed I had a pictur esuue old
church. But just to make sure that
there vas no mistake, dropped the
plate l had just developed into the
hypo and put the remain mg plate into
the tray. 1t was app Arently over
timed for almost as oOn as the de-
veloper struck IL the lines of the
church flashed out. There was nc
doubt about it whichever. 1t was &
strong. thick negative but good one
. of the church | he'd aimed at.
more rnystifie1 than ever. / put the
church negative into the hypo and tool
-. out the partly cleared negative that
had develo' 81 first. took 1t into the
other room and held 1t IN in front OF
; the gas iia'nc. And what do you think
: met me- gaze? \ perfect picture OF
the old man no had died a number a
< years before, but clad in a windiae
Y drapery which faded away into norlir
: ,ingness at the edges of the plates
don't offer an explanation as to boy
e the old mans features became i'm
: pressed on sensitized plate which Il
{ all probability was not made >ill lon
i after his death But there was tn
Il face. as unmistakable as my picture Q
: the old church. II is an interestin
a problem in psychic reseAr ch and any
4 one who wishes to inv,.st lgate the cas-
can have print frSJrr the negative.
4 concluded Mr.. Emery.