A Singular Coincidence

- "I am not a fatalist," saitl T. Davitt Hennin, ''lint occasionally I run acros3 things tiiat puzzle ;i great deal. Not long ago Dr. Torn Hewitt of LeadviMe, Coló., died. Hewitt was somewhat of a fatalist and believed in a great niany things that I didn't. Omens and liarbingers of evil he was much given to believe in. You have undoubtedly heard stories of people dying and the clock stopping at the same time, or sonie numerical of its face popping out. Hewitt had a sign in his office window in his residence whichread, 'Dr. Toni Hewitt.' It was composed of 11 white letters glued to the pane. Hewitt took sick about 10 nionths since. A few days after his illness I noticed that one of the white letters had dropped off and was gone. The illness of the doctor cansed the family to forget most everything else, and so the letter was not replaced. "A month later Hewitt was still sick, and I noticed a second letter was gone. He lingered along, up and around now, and then sick again, for a periocï. ïkfeantime the white letters were not replaced. Month after inonth went by, and every succeeding month saw a letter disappear. Hewitt noticed it, and then he would not allow them to be replaced. Afta over 10 months of sickness, and when 10 of the letters had disappeared Dr. Toni got an extra severe spell of illness and died. The morning after his death I visited the house and noticed as I passed in that the last letter was sone.'