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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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THE
SATIN
SLIPPERS
On
1st
February,
1891,
Michael
Conley,
a
farmer
living
near
Ionia,
in
Chichasow
county,
Iowa,
went
to
Dubuque,
in
Iowa,
to
be
medically
treated.
He
left
at
home
his
son
Pat
and
his
daughter
Elizabeth,
a
girl
of
twenty-eight,
a
Catholic,
in
good
health.
On
February
3
Michael
was
found
dead
in
an
outhouse
near
his
inn.
In
his
pocket
were
nine
dollars,
seventy-five
cents,
but
his
clothes,
including
his
shirt,
were
thought
so
dirty
and
worthless
that
they
were
thrown
away.
The
body
was
then
dressed
in
a
white
shirt,
black
clothes
and
satin
slippers
of
a
new
pattern.
Pat
Conley
was
telegraphed
for,
and
arrived
at
Dubuque
on
February
4,
accompanied
by
Mr.
George
Brown,
"an
intelligent
and
reliable
farmer".
Pat
took
the
corpse
home
in
a
coffin,
and
on
his
arrival
Elizabeth
fell
into
a
swoon,
which
lasted
for
several
hours.
Her
own
account
of
what
followed
on
her
recovery
may
be
given
in
her
own
words:--
"When
they
told
me
that
father
was
dead
I
felt
very
sick
and
bad;
I
did
not
know
anything.
Then
father
came
to
me.
He
had
on
a
white
shirt"
(his
own
was
grey),
"and
black
clothes
and
slippers.
When
I
came
to,
I
told
Pat
I
had
seen
father.
I
asked
Pat
if
he
had
brought
back
father's
old
clothes.
He
said
'No,'
and
asked
me
why
I
wanted
them.
I
told
him
father
said
he
had
sewed
a
roll
of
bills
inside
of
his
grey
shirt,
in
a
pocket
made
of
a
piece
of
my
old
red
dress.
I
went
to
sleep,
and
father
came
to
me
again.
When
I
awoke
I
told
Pat
he
must
go
and
get
the
clothes"--her
father's
old
clothes.
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