Putnam patriot., 1910-07-01
By DONALD WALLACE.

l remember well the night received my first shock. received another lat CT thar affected me more than this oue but in a different way The first was in the nature of a surprise: the second was a terror
 l was but eighteen at the time and was going home to my aunt. with whom ] lived. having just finished my education The journey was long enc, and had somewhat broken down my nerves from hard study did not like 10 stay overnight at hotel alone. but did not feel like taking a sleeping car. I was rather a timid girl any way and had not been used to going about without a protector.
 I reached the hotel about o'clock and went immediately to bed and to sleen. l was awakened in the night by noise in the hall Several persons passed hurriedly and were talking rap- idly. l have always been afraid of fire. especially in hotel. got out of bed. went to the door and opened It. At that moment received my first shock.
 Standing in the open door of the room directly opposite mine stood girl in her nightdress peering out anx- touslv. just as was doing The cor ritar was lighted. and l could see her plainly. The marvellous feature was that she was myself There was not the slightest difference between us We were both In nightdresses. the hair Of both was worn in braid hanging down the back. and her face and figure were replicas of mine.
 Both gave little scream of surprise. and both drew back into our respective rooms. l shut my door and groped my way 10 my bed All thought of dan ger was put out of my head in this re- markable apparition of my other self.
 The physician In charge of the sem mary I had attended had warned ne that if did not give up study l would break down But. desirous of being graduated with the class as well as at the head of 1t, had disregarded his warning Now. it seemed to me. was
 
 My mind must be giving way. IL was long past midnight when l bethought myself that on opening my door must have looked into a large mirror. would have go, out of bed and satis. fled myself of this. but feared 10 find the contrary. and if I did would not get any more sleep So l comforted ,,,reofP with tho asSfrro nca that I would in the morning find mirror opposite my door and dropped into slumber.
 was called early for the train. and when 1 left my room looked for the mirror Alas. there was no mirror there but door just as l had seen it in the night. l had no time to make Investigations. needing to so down to breakfast and to the station.
 By the advice of my physician l spent July and August that summer at the seashore. By September l was much improved and spent the month in the mountains This restored my health but did not relieve me of an uneanny feeling at having seen myself or my other self at the hotel during my homeward journey. Two years passed during which I had gradually driven the matter out of my mind when l saw the vision again.
 Singularly enough. 1 saw it undef circumstances somewhat similar to those connected with its first appear ance It was the second summer after tue one during which it had first ap- peared to me, when l was at - Springs. 1 had room in an extension of a hotel. facing another extension One morning on arising l went to a window. and there at another window in the other extension stood my dou- ble We were both. as before. in night dresses and wore our hair plaited on our backs
 Nothing could have induced me to remain at that hotel for another day l was with friends and surprised them by announcing that would leave by the next train. They wondered. ex- postulated pleaded. but 10 no purpose One of them. girl of my own age with whom I was very intimate. beg ged me to tell her why l was leaving and what was the matter with me. Tor it was plain that had received shock of some kind l would not have told her for the world declined to tell any one but my physician. and wished to consult him as soon as pos sible l was sure that l suffered rom some kind of mental breakdown. anu only hoped that he would find means 10 arrest it's progress.
 On reaching the city l sent for him to come to me at once and told him or this second vision of myself. He tried 10 reassure me by telling me that had seen some one who looked very Ike me l refused to be comforted- l had seen myself or my exact counterpart told him that only one of my own flesh and blood could so closely resem, ble me and that had no sister or even cousins so far as l knew. Resides. II his vision were a real person l wouid see her in a different dress from my own The doctor explained this oy saying that as l had seen her at night and in the early morning l would nat. uraliy see her in the dress l wore my self. both of us wearing nightgowns l tried 10 consider this within the limit Of coincidence. but fl was impossible for me 10 believe that two persons could he 70 Identical in appea rance that they shonld meet twice and ootn times see each other in nightdress- No; had seen this vision first at | .4-x.. t&Aa U-