Show R 1 T 7 TI TIt I TT I S H Ji i A v It I t V lii EKING IB 18 e believing Is such sucha is S 'S a common expression that it has almost come to I mean mean Not peen Been not to tofee be fee believed hollered Im Imagination and dreams plY Inexplicable inexplicable in- in explicable pranks but when an applicant ap ap- ap- ap for tor a railroad job gets turned town down own on account of color blindness gas tall jets of the bhe ch chandelier above struck fairly upon the face beneath the tho oval 11 slaw glai In a corner was a rack book filled d with books Next to the rack book-rack is f to a n. long top green table with two drawers and at as the light struck over my left shoulder at that point I started to get a book and turn up a jot sufficiently hl high h to r 1 n allow of ot reading I h had d hardly reached for tor the book when I heard or thought I heard a aring aring I ring of the doorbell Thinking possibly possibly possibly pos pos- sibly it tt might be a boarder bouder who had either forgotten tan or lost his key I thought to save the landlady trouble and the outsider delay So I went to tho the door and opened it it There Thoro V tJ an envelope addressed To Whom Whon May Concern In tho the envelope was nothing but the following note coto j 1 Enclosed herein She the barber will find five donate dollars j jwill will wUl know what it Is for tor a as it is 11 tit i between us th that t he J la Ia shave me at my dea death n it-e it he bec becomes me very well well ware a-ware aware of the JA D was wag no one ono there That is no visible fact tact that green and red exist as sop sop- 7 presence But ere I hf hod hed d softly shut hut I arate orate colo colors colon whether he te can see ee the the door a kind of ot a a. chill had passed sed difference or not Ho He would be a Y through h mo me not u up a and down as 1 foolish man indeed to argue that chills ordinarily run rue but sideways there Is no no green c or r no red red because P straight through and through he cannot see that particular color l r Returning to my watch In the So with those psychic phenomena 1 front parlor I found myself In n no vulgarly yule termed Ghosts One may t further humor to read So I Just not believe e in nor be able to s see e 4 sat eat there gazing blankly Into space apace t them but well but well what about the re rejected ro re- r 4 But n not at for tor long For jon eon It seemed candidate for tor the railroad Job o b as aa If It there was waa a strange p presence In l t J z the room At first I felt it It rather i l 4 than saw it lt Then I saw it It was waa It is the custom of ot our lodge when r 4 A George Gaorge Shell Shelly the barber And a member Is sick alck for tor g s of ot tho the George Shell Shelly had been dead two visiting committee to call the upon years A sky scraper now occupied brother and minister to his comfort the spot where his old hop used to Should the brother die watchers are stand offered to sit up with the corpse George GeorKe Shelly had a small amaH grip in Not long ago an as old bachelor his hand For several t moments omenta he r brother r died Three Throe of us from the stood looking d down n at the corpse of ot r lod lodge e volunteered to sit up with the I I hi his hi old customer Then Than he ho deposited corpse The bod body was wall laid out in inthe f r i the small grip on a chair and took the room he had occupied for tor fora a num- num S I R oft off his coat and rolled up his sleeves ber her of years a down stairs front parlor par par- i 4 Next he o opened ened the grip and drew drow r I lor for In a big old Locust street boarding board board- forth Perth a full set of ot shaving instruments ing house hO which had originally N ments meats even to a bottle filled with r served as a mansion fo to a St. St Louis water Not knowing what to do I millionaire long since passed away sat eat stilt still and watched a The landlady and a few tew of the e George Shelly removed the coffin b boarders carders dropped in during the early i lid and shaved his old customer course of ot the evening o and sat at around r r r without so w much as disturbing the r till their theft bedtime came Both of ot my t 7 position of ot the corpse Seemingly he rY i fellow flow watchers were married men exercised extreme dexterity because Y YOne One had a a. sick child at home Being 1 a I such Buch a task would be well-nigh well Impossible Im Im- m- m myself a a. bachelor and with no one possible to any barber But George expecting my return shortly before 7 k Shelly Sally h apparently accomplished d i it r midnight I told m my two lodge brothers broth broth- and replacing the coffin cornn lid Ud and d re repacking re re- ers ere t to o g go o o on n home hom that the t I would packing his hie tools and putting on his r 1 r w I watch the night out They prote protested ted r coat stood Irresolutely looking It would be an imposition for them around the room as 88 if It in n search of ot to subject me to the solitary duty I something r prevailed pre however upon them to Suddenly the barber seemed to have u take their departure and took up my f r SI f fr located what he was looking for and andi i lonely vigil t o made for the table at which I was 11 Now o w In n explanation of ot what Is s to tobe seated I could make malte no move be related a partial description of 7 4 though he be was close enough for tor me methe methe meto the man and his surroundings may to have reached out and shaken i 1 serve to prove of subsequent ent Interest hands And there h he be a stood with his Outside of ot lodge I was not particularly finger to his forehead as It if trying u r well acquainted with him But to remember something we used to have shave In n th the e same barber barbershop r s Atto At last it t seemed a as a i if It f he arrived r shop and aud it was he whom I first at a n satisfactory conclusion and A Aheard heard draw the comparison between i then George Shelly opened one of the Y i color blindness and psychic blind bUnd r f table dra drawers and took out somei some some- something s' s ness fleas George Shelly the tha barber had thing which ho put im iDl his pocket r said he be would not believe anything and departed f s he could not see For full five minutes aft after r the barThe barber barThe bars bar bar- The brother was five fifty ft e by the ber bar had left I could h hardly a pull myself myself my my- led lodge a books and had been a member t self together But finally I came to In good standing for almost twenty i the conclusion that I must hare bade ha je dozed T years ears He was known as a good man I for an instant and that I had been l and a good fellow in lodge and on I the victim of ot a freak fleeting dream l F the street His home life Ufe was described de de- Next Nest day the funeral was had and S q i scribed by the landlady as methodical method methodi then the brothers brother's effects wore were gone 2 r cal and upright through in n search of ot his will The hc s l lIt It was to be a lodge funeral The landlady said he had told her one ona x 1 l 3 bed had been removed The coffin would be found It was located In Inthe l 1 i z was placed near the center of ot the the drawer at which I had been sit sit- 6 room where the low light ht from the ting tinge In the other othor drawer was found found I |