A GHOST STORY.

Evening Post, Volume XIX, Issue 110, 13 May 1880, Page 3

A GHOST STORY.

A correspondent of the Geelong Advertiser is responsible for the following " ghost" Btory: — "As I know you feel interested in such circumstances, I write, in case you may not have heard it, to tell you of a very remarkable circumstance connected with the death, at Hamilton, of the late Archdeacon Innes. The arohdeacon, as yon know, died of diphtheria, and though perfectly sensible to the last, was unable to artioulate a syllable, and was therefore, compelled to h_ve recourse to writing. This lends additional value to the circumstance which I have to tell you. For some months the archdeacon had been assisted as lay-reader by a young man reoently arrived from Home named Lisßerman, who, though not remarkable either for oultnre or natural ability, yet endeared himself to the archdeacon and all who knew him by his thoroughgoing earnestness and goodness. After working a few months he fell a victim to prostrated energy, and died at the parsonage at Hamilton a few weeks before the archdeacon. Jußt before his death the-aroh-deacon, who, as I have told you, expressed all he had to cay in writing, and was compos mentis to the last, wrote that, going into his study one evening? after Lisserman's death, he saw him standing at the study table, and involuntarily exclaimed, ' Holloa ! are you here?' * Yes,' replied the apparition, 'and where I now am there will you soon be !' Mr. Innes was not a man of fancies, or of impaired physique ; and when he Baw the apparition was in the onjoyment of good health. These facts are well known and vouched for."