The Ghost of Guir House
1 When Mr. Henley reached his dingy little house in Twentieth Street, a servant met him at the door with a letter, saying: "The postman has just left it, sir, and hopes it is right, as it has given him a lot of trouble." Mr. Henley examined the letter with curiosity. There were several erased addresses. The original was: "_Mr. P. Henley, New York City_." Scarcely legible, in the lower left-hand corner, was: "_Dead. Try Paul, No. --, W. 20th_." Being unfamiliar with the handwriting, Mr. Henley carried the letter
In Memory of
ELIZABETH GREENE GAIR.
BESIDE THE STILL WATERS.
"He leadeth me beside the still waters."
PSALM xxiii. 2.
There has been a period of geological speculation, at which all the
changes which have taken place upon the earth's surface, and have left
their unmistakable marks in countless relics of animal and vegetable
life, were attributed to the action of sudden and violent forces, of
which, to-day, earthquake and tempest and volcano are only the feeble
and transitory types. Those changes have manifestly been so great and so
universal, as to stand out in vivid contrast to the imperceptibly slow,
the gently gradual processes, which are all that we are now able to
watch and to record: surely we can attribute them only to causes as
1 When Mr. Henley reached his dingy little house in Twentieth Street, a servant met him at the door with a letter, saying: "The postman has just left it, sir, and hopes it is right, as it has given him a lot of trouble." Mr. Henley examined the letter with curiosity. There were several erased addresses. The original was: "_Mr. P. Henley, New York City_." Scarcely legible, in the lower left-hand corner, was: "_Dead. Try Paul, No. --, W. 20th_." Being unfamiliar with the handwriting, Mr. Henley carried the letter