The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1906, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. Bl o AP T - a4 = - - NW= .= SGIERISHED | =i [l NWNNNSGUVENIR LOS | BYfEDGAR ACHORNG MYS@E S AN I NORTH CAROLINA | . ¢z b RETURNED TO, off ‘ 2 N= it | HIM IN A FAR QN AN el ¥ OFF LAND 28 MATCH STEVENE of Newark, | news that his dear friend was dead N. J. a recent arrival from| The lawyer sailed trom New York on February 8 for a Mediterranean cruise the steamer Arabic In tite party who had been of the Asheville when the t the guests at persons from Toledo, but they tely to their re- knew, however and of his exceeding recover his sc of then //// 7 o S the Orient, is responsible a story that has aroused 2|was none othe #tudents, | house party ¢ matchbox was ouse deep interest philosophers those whe are ever n Ch teries of occult se rned immedi that olves a nu the East who are freg San F Achorn, & well-known Bost enir have been returning been eliminated by em wo matt Had any ed of the finding ville woods in notifying ancisco, among who s well acquainted in S ciseo t deals with the ip existing between 4 the late Dr. Sv s EY d w 1 not lose se se - p ) some one ¢ - e mat given absolutely impos- : indeed highly improbable the matchbox habitually in e side pocket of his trou and small change. is ving these articles was a ty. any deviation have immediately P s of & . Eve t b a . ed at least twenty any of nter ed the K Ige ing the he packed the s wore a lighter weiglh erge suit which had not be Asheville, "but which had bung in a closet at home s October. Of other e the preceding apparel had been used was taken on k over- the cruis sroad oat and an evening suit carried a leather suit case 1ese garments ad &ll been repeatedly and carefully searched. The evening suit ad been worn on the se nearly every even- ng at dinne through all the tour of panish, Algiers, Madeira, Greece, Tur- ey and Palestime. In it the matchbox ve escaped notice. The also as carefylly scruti- oyvage and it was ot the matchbox was re- could not overcoat w ed during the at Luxor, where overed During the trip up the Nile the over- oat was left in the steamer, 450 miles away. Achorn wore the blue serge suit and is po inced that he | did not carry t x about him. Three days before Attorney Achorn's xor, and while Hindoo, whoe rteous man- omething that was abou b 1 confess that I was so impressed by 1is confident claim v of mystic power and the ‘soft, spiritua) 11d seek express gleam in his handsome eyes, that 1 his body | shrank from venturing Into the realm ication. | of the future. One day after dinner Mr. Achorn as sitting in the magnificent hotel den of Luxor, apparently enjoying with friends t comi of night over the historic ruin in tWe desert, when sddenly the coterie of friends was at- d by an approaching Oriental was differentiated from the Egyp- an hotel attendants by a long robe s could it demonstrate its and turban ed existence? What topic of s he neared the group the fellow, by pre- whom we took to be a Hindoo, sud- d reveal denly paused and centering his gaze on' st exercised con- Ack n ageain approached When with- n few feet of Achorn, who seemed box, the puzzled by the man’'s peculiar h could not | act s, the latter extended his right human souls in a|hand as he uttered in a low voice: fe there i o *“This is your matchbox.” the narrow limits ken so completely unawares, the human minds amazed lawyer curiously felutched the | atchbox to iate ner the m box from the stranger's hand. He | € nstant de reminder irned, muttering Inarticulate words of . p. & e the law- | surprise, to say, ‘Where did you get'— | s of no more But the Hindoo had departed. He had : cle e been hed quite as quickly as he had s r several years ny times sared to the gloup. orn would use the match- was no apparition, for we all| thout thinking | had seen the stranger. Being absorbed | f the give in the surprise of the matchbox, how- | Achorn left| ever, and intgrested in the profound istmas house | effect the inCident Thad made upon v try home of a friend | Achorn, none had noted the stranger's : t from Asheville. The|departure. Who he was or whence he I ving ofter Christmas he recalls came no investigation disclosed. { &5 % < o aving taken a siroll in the woods with Achorn immediately pronounced the 2 ; 5 4 S : Sh e s r<r nd he knows that at that matchbox to be the one he had lost in| S . % e S - 3 ]‘J’?fl) [}‘ ville during the preceding Chris! s week. Its pattern of half turned | . » e : ; o / }/oyp nir the mext time he leaves growing from & double scroll i : ; < g # use it made its dis-| was readily recognized, as were its - : % 2 M”’”OA on He immediately | details of dalsles and leafy wvines. o » . lothes without success. Friends with the lawyér were doubtful i L 3 back to Boston, Achorn|of the identification, but the owner > 2 stopped at on December wed thém a dent in the side which to visit with the doctor and he was | he had made by accident by striking d to relate that he had lost the|it with a rifie during a hunting trip| ued gift in Mexico. | On December 31 the two friends “ ‘I can further verify it, he sald. ‘If parted, little knowing that thev then it be mine the inside of the lid is boked into each other's eyes for the | burned black from an accidental firing | st e of matches.’ { Soon after Attorney Achorn's arrival | “The recovered matchbox lid Inside| & Bos he received the distressing|was fire black:=ned.” ! sed the matchbox to light a hagrin at missing the