A STRANGE VISION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2513, 18 August 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

A STRANGE VISION.

A lady who is a resident of the interior of Pennsylvania was travelling in Europe, and while staying in London she dreamed that she was visiting prominent points of interest in that city, in regular tourist fashion. But wherever she went she was •net by a peculiar looking man, who invariably asked her the same question : " Are you ready ?" Go where she would and do what she liked, in every scene in her dream she met the same man, and he always asked her the ever recurring question. She was considerably impressed by this dreain, and she remarked to the lady to whom she related it that she should never forget the face of the man who had so persistently appeared before her. Time went on. She returned to the United States, and went to piy a visit to one of the large cities stopping at the most noted hotel in the place. She was lodged on one of the upper floors, and went down to breakfast the next morning after her arrival. At the conclusion of her repast she went to the elevator and entered it, with the purpose of returning to her room, and the man in charge, before starting it, turned to her with the question, ''Are you ready?" Struck by these words she looked at the man and instantly recognised the hero of her singular dream. She was seized at once with a vague and causeless terror, and cried, " Let me out—you must let me out !" The elevator being already in motion no release was possible until she reached the first floor. She hurried out of it and closed the door, the man started it to descend, and instantly the elevator and the unfortunate guide fell with a crash to the cellar. The poor man was instantly killed, and the strange dream had probably saved the dreamer from a similar fate.