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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
172
The
sable
score
of
fingers
four
on
a
board
of
wood.
Now
for
a
modern
instance
of
a
gang
of
ghosts
with
a
purpose!
When
I
narrated
the
story
which
follows
to
an
eminent
moral
philosopher,
he
remarked,
at
a
given
point,
"Oh,
the
ghost
spoke,
did
she?"
and
displayed
scepticism.
The
evidence,
however,
left
him,
as
it
leaves
me,
at
a
standstill,
not
convinced,
but
agreeably
perplexed.
The
ghosts
here
are
truly
old-fashioned.
My
story
is,
and
must
probably
remain,
entirely
devoid
of
proof,
as
far
as
any
kind
of
ghostly
influence
is
concerned.
We
find
ghosts
appearing,
and
imposing
a
certain
course
of
action
on
a
living
witness,
for
definite
purposes
of
their
own.
The
course
of
action
prescribed
was
undeniably
pursued,
and
apparently
the
purpose
of
the
ghosts
was
fulfilled,
but
what
that
purpose
was
their
agent
declines
to
state,
and
conjecture
is
hopelessly
baffled.
The
documents
in
the
affair
have
been
published
by
the
Society
for
Psychical
Research
(Proceedings,
vol.
xi.,
p.
547),
and
are
here
used
for
reference.
But
I
think
the
matter
will
be
more
intelligible
if
I
narrate
it
exactly
as
it
came
under
my
own
observation.
The
names
of
persons
and
places
are
all
fictitious,
and
are
the
same
as
those
used
in
the
documents
published
by
the
S.P.R.
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