| Show The Doctors Doctor's Experience ONE bright moonlight night we were sitting on the upper deck of the Louisiana bound from N New ew York to New Orleans and were watching the thelow thelow low foggy shores of Florida as they glided silently past We imagined now and then that we could discern lights of villages in the distance but as we approached these 2 seemed twinkling glimmers and vanished like spectres After we had been deceived deceived ded de de- d several times our conversation naturally turned to ghosts and nations A doctor related the following following following follow follow- ing experience of his own I I am not a believer in the supernatural supernatural supernatural tural and am not at all disturbed by vague vain theories as to the relation of aRF spirits to us mortals yet there did occur to me a strange thing indeed which I have never been able to explain I had been practicing medicine medicine medicine medi medi- cine for several years but wishing to specialize myself in diseases diseases' of the throat and lungs I entered for a post postgraduate postgraduate graduate course in Bellevue I took rooms at a well-known well private hotel and soon became intimate with the lord of the realm the hotel clerk One night he aroused me to visit a alady alady alady lady who had been seized with a and needed immediate attention She had been suffering for many months from a lung trouble and u tI J. J j jj i was on her way from her Vermont hone home to pass the winter under the mild skies of Florida I saw at once that she was in the last stages of a peculiar form of consumption 1 gave her such temporary relief as I could and told her maid more a companion than servant that there was absolutely no chance of recovery and that the end was very very near and that if Miss Warren wished to die among her friends she should return at once to her home It It was impossible to remove her for fora a week During this time I saw hermany hermany her hermany many times daily She evidently had been very beautiful and even now her face glowed with an almost unearthly beauty She was finely educated and had clearly had all the advantages cultured cultured cul cul- associations and wealth could bring As she was about to leave she seemed greatly affected Doctor you have been very kind to me were her words as I recall them now and andas as a dying woman I am tempted to tomake tomake tomake make a disclosure You have aroused my curiosity Miss Warren surely there is no serious secret worrying you N No 0 not that was her reply She hesitated looked into my face with an appealing glance and putting her hands to her eyes burst into tears I I was puzzled and a little discon discon- Y You ou have so strange an influence over me she at last stammered between between between be be- tween her so sobs bs I have tried to resist it but I cannot y feel as though I could be willed to do anything by you If you look toward the table for any anything anything- thing thing- a bottle a book or a paper I am moved to 1 reach out and get it for you I seem to i 1 know intuitively every wish on your part before you express it and feel compelled compelled compelled com com- to act in accordance with itI it I I never knew that I possessed the slightest spark of the power of L f but here I could reah no other conclusion It is nothing but nervousness nervousness nervousness nervous nervous- ness ness- Miss Warren and your imagination tion is unduly excited in your weak state you are apt to be slightly cal 1 II Before I left she begged from me methe methe the small gold ring I wore she wished to have a keepsake and would direct it itt t to be returned to me II During several weeks I received ref reports re re- reports f ports from the attendant that Miss Warren was gradually sinking I often thought of her and the nurse said that f she often spoke my name in deli deli- One night I retired unusually f exhausted by a severe piece of work in ina a hospital and sank at once into adeep a adeep at t F deep slumber I was awakened by f someone calling me apparently at my bedside I sat up but all was quiet a aF F night lamp burned dimly and no one was in the room Again I T fell aseep when once more I heard the call Doctor Doctor Doctor Doc tor doctor please come quick Again I sat up and as as Inow I Inow Inow now see that lifeboat I saw the interior t of a sumptuous room with every piece of furniture and every ornament clearly outlined On the bed lay Miss Warren Warren Warren War War- ren struggling with death At her side were the nurse and her aged mother While I yet looked the scene gradually faded all save the image of Miss War War- ren She seemed to draw near to me and I felt icy breath on my face The image reached for my hand I saw with no power to resist or draw back that it or she was trying to replace my ring An indescribable horror seized me How or when it ended I do not know but later I found myself in bed bathed in a cold perspiration and trembling like an aspen with a vivid m memory mory of what I had seen I arose wrote a description of it all and drew drewa a sketch of the room I noted too the time and again retired I slept until noon When I arose I found a telegram a awaiting waiting me announcing the death of Miss Warren At an urgent invitation from the bereaved mother I I attended the funeral While at the house after the mournful ceremonies I asked the maid to show me Miss Warrens Warren's Warrens Warren's Warrens Warren's War War- rens ren's room room so so far tar had morbid curiosity mastered me There as I had almost expected I found the chamber the room of my vision every essential article placed where I had noted it The nurse told me too that Miss Warren Warren Warren War War- ren had died at an hour which I found tallied exactly with the hour of my apparition and that at the moment of i iS i'S her death she had asked to have my S 'S ring restored and sinking into a de- de J had called me Doctor doctor i z 3 please come quick Charles F F. 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