Show STRANGELY WARNED The Supernatural Visitor That Saved Her From the Sting of the Cobra Hartford Times The following remarkable re-markable occurrence an absolute fact is related by a lady visiting friends in Hartford as It was told her by her cousin in Meerat Northwestern India I took place in the house of the sister of the narrator Of its absolute accuracy ac-curacy there can be noquestion The two sisters in India are connected with families of repute and with officers In the British army in India We give the story as the lady here related it She is a devout member of the Episcopal Epis-copal church and is incapable of misrepresenting mis-representing in the slightest particular par-ticular Her cousin in whose house the occurrence occur-rence took place was seated at alighted a-lighted table engaged in reading when thinking it about time to retire and happening to lift her eyes from her book she was astonished to see seated astonlshed in a chair before her and between herself her-self and the door to the bath room a sel man a stranger to her who calmly regarded her I vas too great a surprise sur-prise for her to speak and demand who was thus intruding unbidden upon her privacy and what was wanted astonishment She remained for a moment In silent Then it gradually dawned upon her that the figure was probably not that of a person of real flesh and blood but a visitor from the unseen world of life She remembered having once as a child seen a similar figure under circumstances cir-cumstances which seemed to preclude the idea that it was any person still in the body and in later years in revolving re-volving those circumstances she had remembered how the apparition had after a little while faded away into invisibility I in-visibility Concluding that this new visitor also ws not a person of flesh and blood she sat silently gazing at the silent object while the intruder whOever or whatever he was sat also in silence steadily regarding her Just how long this state of things lasted the lady did not accurately know but t was probably not very long when theM the-M > mysterious stranger began to vanish into a thinner3 and thinner personal presence until in a moment or two he presel untJ had vanished quite away It was the ladys hour for her evening even-ing bath but she thought she would first let out her two pet dogs from their confinement in another room They came barking furiously and running directly toward the bathroom bath-room There through the open door the lady was horrified to see on the floor a monstrous cobra the snake whose bite is certain and speedy death Springing forward to save her dogs she quickly shut the door but n6l so instantaneously as to prevent her seeing see-ing the reptile turning and escaping down through a hole in the floor where the drain pipes of bathtub and washbowl went a hole which had been carelessly left larger than was necessary neces-sary sarrI she had gone directly to the bathroom bath-room as she would have done but for the intervention of her mysterious visitant her life would undoubtedly have been sacrificed in the act |