Show I 1 1 A ID a IE A M STORY I 1 4 J SE I 1 A and ft e very good one for those who can believe it A former doston boston reNs newspaper paper man tolt EL story not long ago ot of an experience of a young woman noman of hla his acquaintance which while valle it has not yet been em bodied tit in any work of fiction at leist le gives eJ evidence dence of imaginative lowers and may be considered liter the young woman spent her ber surn bummers mers at an old marshfield Marsh neld faini house the win dows of which had an outlook on the ocean she had a tad fad ot of course and it vs as the collection of various kinds of seaweed according to the story she had a dream one night of a torm tossed mariner who came and stood L b tier her side and implored her aid in going on a search for treasure lost at a cert un tin point in the indian ocean the dreim arciro im passed and the morning came the oung boung woman was vas about to leme leae her room when she bhe noticed a pool of water which might have been lau lauded ed by a dripping umbrella near the fireplace in the pool floated a small piece of keawe seaweed ed of a variety which she bad never neer ne er seen before she could not account for it but it was carefully preserved in a specimen book I 1 not long alter she was a passenger on one of the ocean liners among her fellow pa engers was a professor in one cine of the anglish universities and an acquaintance was vias formed between the tn two 0 I 1 ahe he professor shared to a certain extent her in seaweeds and one llie ill she was tilt tinning ning on over er the leaves of her specimen book in his bia company coming to the specimen so BO strangely acquired tl e professor uttered an exclamation cla clai mation nation how did aou QU come by that he asked with anith a mini manifest fest show or oc interest she told him as well as could be it la is ettinge said the professor that Is the second specimen of that trat tl at I 1 hye h ye seen the only other one that I 1 know of is preserved iu in the british museum tu eurn and was found a a beldom visited vl cited point in the indian ocein then the woman remembered her dream boston herald |