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Uhe OCKSHETE'RI'DA Sol. 1 Sheridan, Wyoming. January, 1909 JSo. 4 IN AFTER YEARS By Mpbelle Goehring, 11. “Sheridan! Sheridan!” called the porter. I motioned him to take my suit-case, and picking up my umbrella, started out of the car. It was a lovely November evening. Though rather cold, it was clear, and the moon shone bright as day. The depot, showing up plainly in the moonlight, looked strange to me. It was a stone structure with many arches. It was twenty years since I had visited this town. Perhaps I should not say visited, for at that time, I lived and went to school here. Why, twenty years ago, this very night I had stood in a jolly High School crowd, cheering good bye to our basketball team, who was go ng to Hillings. But that was at a squalid little two-story frame station house: and this—why, this was a city now! The street cars shouted it, the paper sellers cried it, and this depot, too. attested the fact. “Cab to any hotel you wish, mam.” said a man, touching my elbow. “What are the best ones?” I asked. “Sheridan Inn. Great Western. Columbia. Willits, Meteor, Union. Potter House-------” he began, not stopping for breath. “0. please, I said, “stop saying the list, and take me to—let’s see—the Sher'dan Inn. the names sounds familiar. “O, yes, it’s an old hotel, mam, he replied. The cabman earned his half dollar easily, for the Inn was just across the street. Walking boldly up to the clerk’s window, I asked for a room. “There is only one private room left on the first floor,” sa d he. Calling a porter to take my bag. he gave me a key. The room to which I wras led was a low ceilinged. large room, pretty well furnished and entirely different from anything I had ever seen before. The porter looked apprehensively at the floor, and I, following his gaze, saw there a round el-low spot, which gave off a phosphorescent light. Though it was very light in the room, the porter lit the gas. and went away. I hung up my things and was about to sit down when the light spot again attracted my attention. It gleamed persistency and fascinated me so that I was unable to take my eyes from it. Now, I am not a superstitious person, b it I am nervous, abnormally nervous. I presume that ten years of school teaching has played its part in making me so. When I was no longer able to stand the stra'n, I went down to the office and demanded another room. But no one seemed willing to investigate the spot and there was no other room to be had unless I shared with someone else. It was too late to go to another hotel and I always abhorred sharing a hotel room, so I mustered up my courage and went back. I resolutely pulled a small rug over the spot and then sat down to read. I had not read long, however. when the same tantalizing spot showed, on top of the rug. I w ent down to the office agan, resolved to share, if I must, another’s room. But the demon of ill luck followed me for then there was not even half a room left. Back I w’ent. resolved to “do or die.” Again seating myself, I picked up the “Oek-sheperida. How wTell I remembered it. All the names in it were strange to me, but the Sophomores still roasted the Freshmen, and the Seniors still warred with the Juniors. I nearly jumped out of my seat as the spot once again attiacted my attention. Thinking the light might have something to do with it. I turned out the gas. But
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