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Show A HAUNTED ROOM. "i i The Myittrlous Light That QeorQi Cary Eggleston Defied. , Thoro was and perhaps still Is a room In n certain houso In Virginia ! which wns supposed to bo haunted. Every tlmo a person slept there ho would bo sure to wnko after nwhllo to find tho wholo room pervaded by n dim yellowish gray or grayish yellow light. It waa very dim at flrst, but It Increased steadily till the occupant of the chamber fled from tho nameless terror In panic. Mr. Gcorgo Cary Eg-gleston Eg-gleston was not to bo daunted by tbest" tnles and accordingly decided to try n night there. In "Itccdllcctlons ot n Varied Life" ho tells what happened: It was about midnight when I entered en-tered tho room. It was raining heavily, heav-ily, and tho wind was rattling the stout shutters of tho eight great windows win-dows of tho room. I went tocach of thoso windows and minutely examined it. They we're hung with heavy curtains of deep red. Having completed my examination, explored tho closets nnd bolted tho door, I went to bed. Tho great four poster was Inexpressibly comfortnblo, nnd the splash nnd patter of the rain as It beat upon tho window blinds was as soothing ns n lullaby. I forgot all about tho experiment In which I was engaged, nil about ghosts and their ways, and went to sleep. After a tlmo I suddenly waked to find tho room dimly pervaded by that yellowish gray or grayish yellow light which had so disturbed the slumbers of others In that chamber.. My awnk-cnlngvas awnk-cnlngvas so comploto that nil my faculties fac-ulties wero alert at once. I felt under my pillow nnd found tho pistol still, whero I bad placed It. Instead of springing hastily from bed, I lay thero for a time, watching tho weird light as It slowly, almost Imperceptibly, Increased In Intensity. I decided that tho gray distinctly predominated, pre-dominated, but In the meantime the steady increase In the light nnd Its pervasiveness warned mo, nnd I slipped slip-ped out of bed. Tho rain was still beating heavily against tho window blinds, nnd tho strango yellowish gray light was still slowly but steadily Increasing. I wns resolute, however, in my determination determina-tion not to bo disturbed or hurried by nny manifestation. In rcsponso to thnt determination 1 glanced nt tho mirror nnd decided thnt tho mysterious light wns sufficient for tho purpose, nnd I resolved I would shnve. Having dono so, I bathed in tho rap-Idly rap-Idly Increasing light. I wns deliberate, however, in donning my clothing, nnd not till I wns fully dressed did I turn to Icavo tho room. I turned tho key. A second later I was out of that chamber, and tho oaken oak-en door of it wns securely shut behind me. 1 went down tho great stairway, slowly, deliberately, in pursuanco of my resolution. I entered tho largo hallway below and thence passed to tho oak wainscoted dining room, whero I sat down to breakfast with tho rest of tho compnny. It wns 0 o'clock of a dark, rainy morning. Tho grayish yellow light wns daylight |