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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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This
encounter
was
after
Davies
left
his
men,
before
meeting
the
patrol,
it
being
his
intention
to
cross
the
hill
and
try
for
a
shot
at
a
stag.
The
sergeant
never
rejoined
his
men
or
met
the
patrol!
He
vanished
as
if
the
fairies
had
taken
him.
His
captain
searched
the
hill
with
a
band
of
men
four
days
after
the
disappearance,
but
to
no
avail.
Various
rumours
ran
about
the
country,
among
others
a
clatter
that
Davies
had
been
killed
by
Duncan
Clerk
and
Alexander
Bain
Macdonald.
But
the
body
was
undiscovered.
In
June,
one
Alexander
Macpherson
came
to
Donald
Farquharson,
son
of
the
man
with
whom
Davies
had
been
used
to
lodge.
Macpherson
(who
was
living
in
a
sheiling
or
summer
hut
of
shepherds
on
the
hills)
said
that
he
"was
greatly
troubled
by
the
ghost
of
Sergeant
Davies,
who
insisted
that
he
should
bury
his
bones,
and
that,
he
having
declined
to
bury
them,
the
ghost
insisted
that
he
should
apply
to
Donald
Farquharson".
Farquharson
"could
not
believe
this,"
till
Macpherson
invited
him
to
come
and
see
the
bones.
Then
Farquharson
went
with
the
other,
"as
he
thought
it
might
possibly
be
true,
and
if
it
was,
he
did
not
know
but
the
apparition
might
trouble
himself".
The
bones
were
found
in
a
peat
moss,
about
half
a
mile
from
the
road
taken
by
the
patrols.
There,
too,
lay
the
poor
sergeant's
mouse-
coloured
hair,
with
rags
of
his
blue
cloth
and
his
brogues,
without
the
silver
buckles,
and
there
did
Farquharson
and
Macpherson
bury
them
all.
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