Ghost In A Hotel

Apropos of the report that the Brevoort house was to be closed up there is a story that Lady Dunraven has been known to teil about the famous old inn. The countess is described by those who know her as a woman much more incllned to common sense than to ghosthaunted cock lanes, even with Dr. Johnson's authority. She used to teil the facts in the tale simply for what hey were worth. It was more than one dec de ago, years before the Valkyrie was thought of, when Lord Dunraven was first interested In the minlng reg-ions of mrthern Michigan. He and Lads Dunraven were staying in New Vork for a few days before starting west and had taken rooms at the Brevoort - pleasant rooms- with a view of the avenue and a nice glimpse of Washington square. The first night, being tired with their voyage, they went early to bed, as it happened, not se early to sleep. Both the earl and countess were blessed with hearty Eng-lish constitutions. They were not at all accustomed to lying awake till the small hours. They wondered what they could have done, what they could have eaten or drank to affliot them with such gratuitous vigilance. Just at a venture, finally, they bundled themselves out into an adjolning parlor, made themselves extempore couohes there, and slept soundly till morning. Next nlght and the night after there was the same wakefulness and in the end the same migration to the adjoining room for relief. They began to think they should have to leave town earller than they had planned, for they would not for the world have made any pretext to shift chambers. The explanatlon of the mystery, if it was an explanation, came out by chance. They had a cali before long from an oldtime New Yorker whom they met in England, an authority on all matters pertaining to the town's history. "I wonder," he remarked casually, "that they should have given you these rooms. You know it was in that room that a Mr. X. hanged himself." It was in that room that Lord and Lady Dunraven had tried in valn to sleep, and they exchanged significant glanceii Of courae It was only a coincidence, they said, but the next day they took their