AN APPARITION OF THE LIVING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3748, 7 February 1907, Page 4

AN APPARITION OF THE LIVING.

A correspondent writo:-; lo Mr W. T. Stead, of (lie Review 01 .Reviews, from the neighboured of Johannesburg:— •• I have just finished reading with great interest an article in the September number of (lie Review of Reviews called ‘ Kxporiments in Doubling,’ and T would like lo bring to your r.rdiee an extraordinary instance of this nature which occurred a short time ago lo an intimate friend of mine. This friend and her linshand live on a farm close toa villige in the (Jape Colony. One brilliant moon-light night husband and wife had retired. The blinds were up, (hey were at different ends of the room, talking tonne another, when my friend’s linshand called to her sharply and asked her if she had seen anything. ‘ Yes,’ she said, 1 a shadow east by someone on (he step. I was just craning my neck to see wlmtit was.’ ‘ Well,’ he said in great agitation,‘l’ve seen my nnther, and she seemed in a desperate stale, and beckoned to me ; she had on a red dressgown w'th black spots, which 1 have never seen her wear.’ They were discussing (lie subject, .coming to the eonelusion (hit the mother must he dead, when the galloping of a horse was heard. 1 Mere comes (lie messenger !” exclaimed my friend, and such it proved to he. A note was handed in hy a black boy from the mother, urging the son to come if he wished to sec his father alive. When they arrived the mother came to meet them in the dress-ing-gown her son had noticed, and which she was wearing for the first time ! He exclaimed, ‘ Motheiv,you’ve been to the farm to-night.’ She said, ‘I believe I have ; I felt as though I must seize hold of you and bring you.’ This is a true story, and you can make use of it if you liked’