SUCH A PLEASANT ROOM

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 20, 21 May 1908, Page 38

SUCH A PLEASANT ROOM

«* -a ft a*** everybody I'd put to sleep in this room' said old Mrs. jmn« the fastidious and extremely nervous young minister who was spending a night at her house. -

ihis here room is full of s a cred associations to me, she went on, as she bustled around openW shutters and arranging the curtains. 'My first husband died in that bed with his head on these very pillars and poor Mr. Jinks died settin' right in that corner' bometimes when I come into the room in the dark I think I see hirri settin' there still. ' My own father died layin' rigm on that lounge under the winder. Poor pa ! He was a Speeritualist, and he allus said he would appear in this room after he died, and sometimes I'm foolish enough to look for Mm. If you should see anything of him to-night you'd better not tell me, for it'd be a sign to me that there was something i n Speeritualism, and I'd hate to think that.

My son by my first man feil dead of heart disease right where you stand. 'He was a doctor, anid there's two whole skeletons 4n that closet that belonged to him, and half a dozen skulls in that lower drawer. 1 There, I guess things'll do now— Well, good-wight and pleasant dreams.' 6 '