The Weekly Journal. — 1904-04-22 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

LIC11.•::)T All prer I htul been giving, that Murray Lola inC t.he  foilowing stcTry. tt hosted argument hod taken place respooting the amount of credonce to be ate: to ghostly apparitions and surernatural visitations. The invention of hysterical W 011107.1. and weak-minded, vision-seeing !'• waa tne re Mirk Of Oild of tho men Murray, who had taken no part in the discussion. was staying the nig..t. t;:i ny 01111• tin into the room after geeing tit.. List goest a he turned to ma witn great calmat a. Would you classify • me' woakminded. vision-soeing mon?" This from the level-headed Hurray, tit., keen Sash of business, to whom tho gi:•at krm of Murray and ratrickson owed its piosie:ity. The ides, I told hiro, was too farciral. "Well.' said he, "I am going to te:l you of an incident in my life. It happened some fifteen 17:1Iago, anu mind you, I was not more giv,h sion seeing in thoso days thaa I cm now:. ' His manner was so convincing that L eonfeaa the smiling seeptici...ai wita I was pioparing to hear his revelations %nrished. He sat a few minutes in silcit.:e, as though collecting his thoughts, and thee turned to me with a little weary gesture of jorpletity. It was more than fifteen years ago,- he said, "and I kayo despaired of i.n.ilag out any satisfactory solution to what t ii occurred. I was a young man at the with no relations and few fri rids. la,.  latter, though, was nue, au o!!i vham. who took the place of faniily n.1,164)11%4. I wita tho elder of the two, and 1 1) .liev; 1 would .cheerfully have made any 6acrilko for Gerard Groover. . . .  "He was not, however, in a ToF:.tiva to ITquire help front we. Ho had ia!:.•:iteil Until his father a tine estate in L:innablii.e and n liberal ineenie. I, on tha contraiy, was poor. _ . . . _  "On leaving the University, 1 tc; Af rice, and °Kalil wrist to nye on l.i. estate. We corresponded, of count., and a y. r taloa:. my return to England, Groover wrot: tel ing ale he was about to married to a basmitiful girl, and was as happy am one is generally supposed to be under the circumstances. ." I was selfishly disappointed; a int.ri iod man Is quit* the ssine to the friends of his bachelor years, awl I am not, mys:lf, what is known as a marrying man." "On my return to England, however, I went ay to Lancashire to runt them. Cruove.r was (blighted to see me, and the first greeting over. I half laughingly confessed my dbnppointment at his marriage. I know it is a crime in your eyea; ho 'but when you have peon Eleanor, you will b' forced to confess that there were extenuating circa:not naves.' "His wife came into time room as he was  speaking. lam no greet judge ot women's looks, but she Boomed to nv.. very beautiful; it was her charm of manner, though. that chiefly attracted me. . "She CAMe forward with outßtretclvA hand. " `ls this your old friend, Mr. Murriy. trersialr "She eat down by nmt end began questioning me on my tour in Africa, and I. the womanhater. tumid myself prest ntly ehatt int; milli her .as familiarly as though we were friends of long standing. '• When we were once more alcne, I told (lerard he was a lucky fellow. She is charming, old man,' I s'id, • if )0.1 know any more women like her, pray keep t !gem out of my way.' "Gerard laughed at that, and told n:e if I was waiting for another Eleanor I was safe. "Well, I staved with them chant chive wevkii, and then left, us business egll.ll me to the 4ciith of Prance. "They were both anxious for me to stay longer to wic Darrell, who WAS coining to film the following week. Darrell had been at the University with Groover and myself. but much es I should have enjoyed meeting him again, my business was important, and I was forced to hav_l.. "They walked with me to the station' and stood on the platform waving good-bye. Elealeaning on Groover's arm, bright and . py, milled to inn to come bark soon. ' Two mouths later, going into a French cafe, I happened to pick up an English paper about a fortnight old. I usually baw the Landes papers, and I don't know how I missed seetin, one. I was glancing careleably through iI when a paragraph caught my eye, which made ale gasp with horror. Saitised Suicide of a Young English ridie y.,, Eleanor Groover, at Monk Li aficld, nea"l turned dizzy, and the paper droved from EkeVadt. I wiE as" mistaken. d a "glut itnheireespzrinego . both names and addroseci. were exact. ' erforwtricken I bullied back to England. "When I reached the house, Darrell was emoting in the garden, he threw away his cigar, and came hurriedly forward. • "'I iym so glad you have come," he mid, 'Poor Qroover is quite prostrated. He sees no ode tiut myself, and scarcely says a word. I am .tally afraid that his brain is giving way uader the strain.'