Sunday Washington globe., 1902-01-05

About 10 O'Clock that morning / stepped
into place where the oldest daughter OF
the landlady was employed, and without
any preiiminaries promptly asked her It any
one had ever died in the room / was occu-
pying at her house. The question was so
sudden that it staggered her for a second or
two.
"Yes why2" she stammered, after partly
recovering from the shock
Nothing, I replied. ~ simply had a
curiosity to know"
"But you have some other reason she
continued, her face turning pale and
would like to know what 1t is2'
She insisted on knowing and I told her
what had seen, but took particular care
to accompany the story with a smile of In
sincerity,
She said no more and left her, as real
lied that, although she did not know
whether to believe me, she was about out
of commission so far as her daily routine
work was concerned.
When she went home at noon she told
her mother about it, and shortly before
O'Clock that evening the mother paid me
visit / was sitting in my room reading
when she called
81 understand you had a visitor last
night?" she said, in an excited manner,
dropping into a chair l had asked her to
take
YES" l replied. 81 have had him
twice"
Are you a spiritualist'" she asked, eye
ing me closely.
answered her in the negative.
Did any one ever tell you before you
sav, the 6Oure that some one had died in
this room2"
again replied no, for had not only not
heard of any such death, but had not
known or heard that the room had ever
been occupied by a lodger before my advent
there
She asked me many questions along this
lime and then requested me 10 describe the
figure I had seen enlightened her on
that point, placing his royal highness be-
fore her just as he had placed himself be-
fore me.
She did not say whether the description
dovetailed with that Of the man who had
died in the room, but she seemed very un-
easy over something After listening at
tentively to my part Of the story she related
the circumstances of the death and some
things in connection with the man which
she said she had not learned while he was
alive. She told me his name, but have
forgotten 1t.
Yes a man died in that very bed in
which you have been sleeping she said,
pointing her finger in the direction of the
bed
lust before he breathed his last l en-
tered the room and he beckoned me 20 him.
/ walked over to the side of the bed and
looked at him, He could not speak, but it
was plainly evident that he desired to do so.
In less than a minute he was dead.
After his death learned he had property
IN the town aud had left a wife in England.
His death was due to an injury he received
across the back while working around a
pile driver with which piles we're being
sunk for a bridge in course of erection by
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
The whole matter is strange" she con-
tinued and do not fully understand it,"
She then left the room and nothing more
/ was ever said by either of us in regard to
the visitor, occupied the room about a
month longer, and although l was quite
anxious to see the man again in order that
/ we might become better acquainted he
/ never put in an appearance. Many nights
! I awoke along about the time 1 had seer
| him, and on each occasion / looked to see
! if he was in the room, but I always had an
other look coming. was deeply interested
in him; more So perhaps, than Iwould have
been had the facts surrounding his death
not been 50 peculiar.