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Show Was It Ghost of Brother? Miss Isla Stowart, for 21 yoars matron ma-tron of St. Bartholomew's hospital, London, recently told this Btory at a public dinner given In her honor: Some years ago, In ono of her wards, lay a little boy who was dying of hip disease. Ho was an orphan with only, one brother, a sailor then serving on a HrUlsh warship In Chinese waters. wa-ters. Ono morning the boy told her that ho had had such a happy night, as 'he had dreamed that his brother was with him at his bedside. When the night nurse came to report she said that she had had a curious experience When looking along tho ward during tho night she had been astonished to see a sailor In the ward beside? the boy's bed. Hesontlng tho Intrusion, sho had gone to the bed to Inquire into the matter, when she found there was nobody there. Twice afterward dur- Ing tho night she had Boon tho same apparition. At last buo turned down the gas and altered tho position of soma plants. After that she did not sco tho sailor ngaln. |