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mail for me and went thru the liall into the dining room. The silence was so deeji that it seemed as tho 1 were surrounded by invisible beings. Thinking some practical joke was being played on me 1 called, ‘Dad! Mr. Colfax!' Believing that they had probably hidden I laughed and .said, ‘do you suppose 1 am that easily fooled?’ No answer. Striking a match, 1 lit the lamp and searched the room. Not a soul was found. The kitchen was likewise empty. Glancing out of the window 1 could not see the cutter. A vague, uneasy feeling was creeping over me. Lighting the lantern with quick, nervous fingers I ran to the barn. Daisy was not in her accustomed stall. Like a flash. 1 sped back to the house and into the living room.4Any mail?’ queried mother without glancing up from her work.*No, they are not at home,* I returned with a little shaky note in myvoice and a quivering feeling around the corners of my month.‘What?’ Mother stared at me, then laughed. ‘My dear child, 1 heard them distinctly.’‘Go and look then,’ I replied.Mother went and when she came hack I could see that she also felt shaky.We drew near together aud talked in a desultory fashion about things in general, hut every once in awhile we would suddenly look back of us as tho we expected a supernatural visitor of one kind or another.The men did not return until 1 o’clock and had not been near the place before. And yet, mother and I would swear to it to this day that we heard them enter the hall to liang up their coats, even to the striking of the match.You ask me what it was? I do not know. Only this, that at 5) o’clock as they turned in at my uncle’s place Mr. Colfax spoke of home and that they ought to drive directly home. At the same time that we were thinking of them they were thinking of us; and—well strange things happen sometimes. Comelet us go home it is surely time,” and Vcrda rose instantly and went to findher w'raps. _ 1
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Fargo Spectrum
Fargo, North Dakota, US
Wed, May 15, 1907
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