Tony Walker

Why, I even noticed the almanac on the mantelpiece.

October 21st.

At least it couldn't be that, because this is May.

And yet it was.

"'Your almanac is at October 21st, isn't it?'

"'No, of course it isn't,' she said, smiling rather anxiously.

"'But all the other things were just as you say.

"'You must have had a dream or a vision or something.'

He was a very ordinary, commonplace, city young man, and he didn't believe in visions.

But he never rested day or night till he got his sweetheart and the mother away from that commodious semi-detached, and settled them in a quite distant suburb.

In the course of the removal he incidentally married her, and the mother went on living with them.

his nerves must have been a good bit shaken because he was very queer for a long time and was always inquiring if any one had taken the desirable semi-detached and when an old stockbroker with a family took it he went the length of calling on the old gentleman and imploring him by all that he held dear not to live in that fatal house why said the stockbroker not unnaturally

and then he got so vague and confused between trying to tell why and trying not to tell why that the stockbroker showed him out and thanked his god that he was not such a fool as to allow a lunatic to stand in the way of his taking that really remarkably cheap and desirable semi-detached residence

Now, the curious and quite inexplicable part of this story is that when she came down to breakfast on the morning of the 22nd of October, she found him looking like death.

with the morning paper in his hand.

He caught hers, he couldn't speak, and pointed to the paper, and there she read that on the night of the 21st a young lady, the stockbroker's daughter, had been found with her throat cut from ear to ear on the bed in the long back bedroom facing the stairs of that desirable semi-detached.

I get a thing, the silver thing with an arrow on one and I can put it on my wall and I really want one.

So please, go on, please.

It would really make my day.

Thank you.