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Show ENTERTAINED AND DINED WITH GHOST REMARKABLE CASE OF A COUNTERFEIT COUN-TERFEIT PRESENTMENT TOLD BY FRENCH DOCTOR. MAN NOW BELIEVES IN SPIRITS Double of Bridegroom-to-Be Mistaken for Dead Man Father of Girl Learns Story of His Death Is True. Washington. The most interesting case of the materialization of a do-parted do-parted spirit was recently narrated in this city by Dr. Edward Rafael of Paris, who stated that he is cognizant of the facts. Louis Lozier was the intimate friend of Jean Lozier of Marseilles, and they were friends from boyhood until mature ma-ture manhood, altlfeugh they were not related by consanguinity. Louis Lozier went to India when he was 21 years of age, and there remained until ' he died. Correspondence between i hem was never interrupted. Louis soon became the father of a boy, who was christened after his father. Three years later, Jean Lozier became the father fa-ther of a girl, who was named for her mother. Twenty years elapsed, and those Lozier friends meantime arranged for the marriage of their children, Louis and Eugenie. As they grew to youth and maturity, the young folks began an intimacy by correspondence, which ripened into love. Louis Lozier died in Calcutta one week before the date set for his son to depart for Paris; alLarrangements having been made for young Louis to bring back his bride with him. The death of the elder Louis Lozier caused a postponement of the wedding plans for almost six months. During that time constant correspondence continued. Louis Lozier finally left Calcutta fol Paris. On the steamer he became acquainted ac-quainted with Edward Parsons, a young Englishman of his own age, and they resembled each other even more than the average twins do; so much so He Was Received with Open Arms. that they were mistaken, the one for the other, by their fellow passengers. Inasmuch as young Parsons was going to Paris before going to London he went with Lozier and registered at the same hotel with him. They arrived at ten o'clock in the morning, took adjoining ad-joining rooms, and. after breakfast, sat down for a smoke and chat. Within an hour young Lozier died of acute indigestion and heart failure. Late in the afternoon Mr. Parsons set out to call on Jean Lozier and state the unfortunate condition of affairs. af-fairs. He was received with open arms by Jean Lozier, his wife and the beautiful Eugenie, and they did not give him opportunity to state his mission. mis-sion. To them he was "Louis," and as such he was obliged to accept their attentions, at least for a time, until he could break the new-s to I hem. Each passing minuie made it harder for him to do the self-imposed duty; and after dinner he began to invent excuses for getting out of i his predicament; predica-ment; but he was at a loss for any successful ruse, until bedtime came, when he excused himself most positively, posi-tively, stating that it would be absolutely abso-lutely impossible for him to remain. Jean Lozier earnestly insisted upon his real reasons for declining the hospitality, hos-pitality, and he said: "Well, to be perfectly frank with you, I will say that I arrived in Paris at ten o'clock this morning. 1 vegis- tered at the Hole! Plank, lock breakfast break-fast with a friend, and died suddenly I at 11:30 o'clock. All arrangements have been made for my' funeral at 11 o'clock this evening, a:.d I am too-fio-lite to disappoint the people who have made arrangements for the intermenL Besides, the hotel fo.ks will not permit per-mit the body to remain there loi,",er." With these words, he boyed and departed. de-parted. Jean Lozier said ihat his .prospective .pros-pective son-in-law was a otrauger.i jocular joc-ular young man. and that ho dh: not like joking on so grave a subject. The next day he made inquiry, and lonnd that the story was true in every particular, par-ticular, and that the young man had arrived, died and been buried as stated; and now he tells of his reason for believing in the materialization of sprits; because he entertained and I dined with a ghost. |