Show 1 AN ai SEEN SEE X HEARD AND TOUCHED the paris correspondent of the nation writes my friend colonel sir william D an officer in the british army having seen bern much service in various parts of the world lias has been for some time past residing at paris with his family consisting of his wife two sons and a highly biebl accomplished and charming daughter from sir william and his daughter I 1 have the following story which I 1 give clia changing nging C only the name dames an and d initials of the baity pal ty exactly as they told it to me a few evenings ago the eldest son when pursuing hi his studies a very few feir years since at the the military college of Sand huist near london was on intimate terms with w uh another of the cabets cadets whom we will call hartley young hartly was a general favorite in the college a promising t f active young fellow fond of the sports usually played by men in england and especially addicted to cricket one saturday afternoon young hartley having been absent for some isome time from the college on a visit to his parents in london the pupils all turned out fur for a game of cricket it was a fine sunny afternoon thu the cricket ci icka t ground was full of animation and the game was going on merrily presently to the surprise and gratification of all the pupils young hartley was seen to enter the ground dressed as usual and looking in all respects exactly like his usual self lie he went up to the ushers and shook hands with them and then a number of the pupils all present appear to have seen him perfectly and to have felt pleased at seeing b him in come back Presen presently tl y he be throw threw himself on tho the ground took a cigar fekn liis his pocket lighted it and began tj to smoke watching the game meanwhile with his usual interest and eveia now and then commenting upon its progress this stroke applaud applauding 9 that and seeming seeming 0 as intent ou on the game game as any of the p players layers at len length th lie ho suddenly drew out his watch abig and started to his feet exclaiming c 1 I am wa wanted ald in london at four and I 1 must be off at once for I 1 have but justi time to catch the train and rushed from the ground in the direction of the railway station much surprised at s so sudden a departure several of the pupils took out their watches and discussed the chances of being in ill london by four bur as it then wanted but a few minutes of that hour next day dav brought to the astonished inmates of if the college the news newe of young hartless Hart leys death which had occurred the preceding day at his fathers house exactly at four he had fallen ill during ir I 1 u his visit home and as was afeei afterward w arg ascertained hid bad nut not once left his bis bed from the time of his bis falling ill it was also ascertained that during the whole of that east day through which he lay in in a sort of quiet otti stupor por his mother had never left his bedside weve seen a r real cal apparition for once in our lives was the shuddering admission of the cadets cabets when the nv 6 of hartless Hart leys decease readied reached them but dic awkwardness of such an and the impossibility of classifying or explaining icing so inconvenient incon lenient a faccas fact as t the he visible and tan tangible 9 ible pre presence serce of their comrade on the cricket ground while he be was really dying in ill his bed in london were too obvious not to produce a certain react reaction ioD and so it came to pass that in course of time the cadets cabets gave up the idea of having seen acen an apparition and settled down on the more convenient hypothesis of a hallucination A fe few ot of the number however of whom young D is one persists firmly in their first belief in re regard 0 gard to this remark kable incident and stoutly declare that they did see touch and hear the hc prefect image of their friend though utterly unable to explain the nature of such an appearance |