Part 2 (1/2)
”Of course ould go to her You may be sure of that But why--”
”Ask try, ”but bear my request in mind if the occasion should arise”
Within a very short ti an aunt in a near-by toas taken ill, failed rapidly, and died alraphed for, could reach her bedside Doctor Langtry's warning i an explanation
”The reason I was anxious about your little girl,” he then told the with Mrs Ruttan I saw an angel enter the hall, pass up the stairs, and return, carrying the child in its arhost most frequently seen is that which appears not before but immediately after, or coincidental with, a death Its purpose is not to give warning of iedy already consummated There are thousands of instances of this sort, so well authenticated as to co case was reported to ton, Vermont, the nephew of the lady--a Mrs Hazard of Newport, Rhode Island--who saw the ghost
She was ill at the time, and under the care of a trained nurse One afternoon, her physician having allowed her to sit up for a couple of hours, she was seated in a chair by the side of her bed, when the nurse noticed her open wide her eyes and turn her head as if following the movements of some one Then she heard her say, in a tone of surprise:
”hello! hello! There he goes! There he goes!”
As far as the nurse could see, nobody was in the roo to alarm her patient, she merely asked:
”Who is it, Mrs Hazard?”
”Chet Keech But he doesn't see one”
Later in the day the nurseher if she knew anybody by the name of Chet Keech
”Why, certainly I do,” was the reply ”He is my cousin, and lives in Danielson, Connecticut”
That day Chet Keech had died at Danielson, as a letter infor
Consider also this stateys of the Society for Psychical Research_, vol x, p 240
”I was about ten years of age at the tirandfather, as an elder in the Kirk of Scotland and in good circumstances He was very much attached tome educated for a minister in the Kirk Suddenly, however, he was seized with an illness which in a couple of days provedany apprehension of his end, I happened to be atin a listless sort of way against the kitchen table, looking upward at the ceiling and thinking of nothing in particular, when , at first di more and more complete until it seemed in every respect as full and perfect as I had ever seen it
”It looked down upon ht, with a wonderful expression of tenderness and affection Then it disappeared, not suddenly but gradually, its features fading and beco but the bare ceiling I spoke at the time of what I saw to , probably, it was nothing ary But in about fifteen or twentybreathless to randfather had just died”
Even more remarkable was the experience of an Illinois physician, Doctor J S W Entwistle, a resident of one of the Chicago suburbs Hurrying onehim an acquaintance, once well-to-do, who had ruined hi at hi was torn and his face bruised, and that there was a cut under one eye He noticed, too, that the other kept looking steadily at hione, God-forsaken expression” Had he not been in such a hurry, he would have stopped and spoken to him, but as it was he passed him with a nod
At the station Doctor Entwistlein:
”Oh, by the way, I just saw Charlie M, and he was a sight He must have been on a terrible tear”
”I wonder what he's doing in town, anyway?” co to see his wife”
”Not a bit of it She won't have hi o Both men, as it happened, had business at the Grand Pacific Hotel and went directly there from the train They were o _Tribune_ in his hand