Miriam's Lover

I read a short story called Miriam's Lover, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It is about two friends that were discussing a girl, Miriam, ,that had stayed with one of the girls, Mary. Mary explained how Miriam was "queer" looking because she dressed very different than most people. Mary told her friend stories about Miriam and how she claimed that she communicated with her lover, Sidney, who was far away. She told Mary how they didn't need to write telegrams all the time, because they could send messages to each other. Mary was very skeptical about Miriam's claim and didn't believe in ghosts or telepathy of anything of the sort. Miriam claimed one day that she knew that her fiance, Sidney, had had an accident but she didn't know what kind of accident exactly. Two days later, she received a telegram saying that he fell off a horse and had broken his arm. Mary, still skeptical, started to think her friend Miriam maybe wasn't as crazy as she is claiming her to be. Another incident was when Miriam told Mary that she knew Sidney was dangerously ill. She wasn't sure with what either but sure enough two days later, she received another telegram saying that he had typhoid fever. Mary, at this point couldn't believe her eyes. Sidney is very deathly ill but is still alive at this point. One day Miriam and Mary were in her room when Miriam fainted out of nowhere. It took awhile for her to wake up after fainting but once she did, she had a very bizarre explanation. She said that Sidney was in the room with her and Mary right before she fainted and said he came to say good-bye because he was dying. Mary explains this story and it shows how her take on everything spiritual and what she considered "queer," may not be all the hocus pocus she claimed it was. Maybe there was some way all of these events really did happen and Miriam wasn't crazy. I really liked this short story because it was unlike the other two that I read. It was interesting and the events that were happening were just too bizarre ironic. I thought it was a really cool different story and I really enjoyed reading it.