{50} THE DEAD SHOPMAN Swooning, or slight mental mistiness, is not very unusual in ghost seers.

The brother of a friend of my own, a man of letters and wide erudition, was, as a boy, employed in a shop in a town, say Wexington.
The overseer was a dark, rather hectic-looking man, who died.

Some months afterwards the boy was sent on an errand.

He did his business, but, like a boy, returned by a longer and more interesting route.

He stopped as a bookseller's shop to stare at the books and pictures, and while doing so felt a kind of mental vagueness.