VANISHED VISITOR

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11949, 20 May 1933, Page 9

VANISHED VISITOR

A SEASIDE LANDLADIES STRANGE CONFESSION

One thing leads to .another,— Tib?. other day I went out to select holiday rooms for friends, and a casual remark to a landlady about- a rather unusual trout fly Lcokeu m a cap hanging in the hall, put me on ‘-he track of half-a-dozen extraordinary mysteries (writes a -South Coast (Eng.) correspondent). “That cap,” she said. *'"wa s hung there six years ago 1: y a man v - ho took two room?. He had his tea at five, and at half-past there wa s a knock at the front- door. I wa s upstairs, and when the knock came againj I heard the man go to the clcor. As he opened it I put my head out of my bed-room window, intenuing to call out that I’d be down m a minute. No one came away fiom the door, but I could hear voice. . T waited a while, and then, when a friend came along. I attracted her attention and asked in a whisper, AVho’s at the door?’ Her repty wa?. ‘lt's open, but nobody? there. VTTEIOUT A TRACE

“I ran downstair?. to find niy friend was right. Thinking that perhaps the caller was a friend of my visiter, I tapped at his door. N° reply—-his room was empty! And I've never seen him sinc-c. His bag. with collars, shirts, and such like i» it. is still upstairs. I to ld i 1)0 police. but they said if I hadn't, dreamt it all. the man must- have gone out- and lost his memory. But lie never went out. And who knocked And what became of whoever did? Nobody, except a spirit, could have conic from uiv door and walked along the path to the gate without niv seeing them.” I asked if she had had any other luvsterionß happenings. •\ TRANSFORMATION. "Only one," she replied- "A woman about sixty 1 d Imre 3 Ut W-il her—came and took rooms. Sho had supper early and went to bee.. In.the morning I took her a cup of tea and .rot a shock that mado me drop the cup. Instead, of a- middle-aged . woman in tW bed. there wa s a pret-. ty girl of about twenty-four. ‘You aren't ihe o n e I let my rooms to!’ -I gasped. T>l course 1 am;' Mie • bundled. ‘.How did I get hole nth evwise ?' AtISSING CLEHGYM A N. op went out. half-scared; hulihewildevod, and to this flay l don i know what to make •of it, for she told me everything wo had talked about tlio -night before. . . . ; If >' oa want to hear, about some mure mysteries. go- to uiy frieud at the ecunev, and tell her 1 sent you. "Ed like this-explained." s.aul .the woman at the comer. "An elderly clergyman took, rooum , here . nine years ago. A'ery .nice ho .was, except that’he drank a- lot of brandy. One morning when X went bite Ins sitting-room ip 'lay ' breakfast and tidy up. I found hi s clothes in. a heap on the floor —just -as if. hoc. stopped out of everything bj .slui\elling himself to half 'bis -ize. I picked them 'up and weivt to his bedroom. Getting n 0 reply to niy knocs. I opened the door. ’ He'wasn’t there, the bed hadn't been slept in, and I s v e never heard from e.r seen ■ him since. His tflotkes are in a parcel. No, lie . couldn't be traced by his name-. It wa§ tried.’ : i ! '■:■ /■■ .