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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
175
"The
Appearance
said,
'Follow
me,'
and
Mrs.
Claughton,
taking
the
bedroom
candle,
rose
and
followed
out
on
to
the
landing,
and
so
into
the
adjacent
drawing-room.
She
cannot
remember
opening
the
door,
which
the
housemaid
had
locked
outside,
and
she
owns
that
this
passage
is
dreamlike
in
her
memory.
Seeing
that
her
candle
was
flickering
out,
she
substituted
for
it
a
pink
one
taken
from
a
chiffonier.
The
figure
walked
nearly
to
the
window,
turned
three-quarters
round,
said
'To-morrow!'
and
was
no
more
seen.
Mrs.
Claughton
went
back
to
her
room,
where
her
eldest
child
asked:--
"'Who
is
the
lady
in
white?'
"'Only
me,
mother,
go
to
sleep,'
she
thinks
she
answered.
After
lying
awake
for
two
hours,
with
gas
burning,
she
fell
asleep.
The
pink
candle
from
the
drawing-room
chiffonier
was
in
her
candlestick
in
the
morning.
"After
hearing
the
lady's
narrative
I
told
her
to
try
change
of
air,
which
she
declined
as
cowardly.
So,
as
she
would
stay
on
at
Mr.
Buckley's,
I
suggested
that
an
electric
alarm
communicating
with
Miss
Buckley's
room
should
be
rigged
up,
and
this
was
done."
Here
the
doctor
paused,
and
as
the
events
had
happened
within
the
week,
we
felt
that
we
were
at
last
on
the
track
of
a
recent
ghost.
"Next
morning,
about
one,
the
Buckleys
were
aroused
by
a
tremendous
peal
of
the
alarm;
Mrs.
Claughton
they
found
in
a
faint.
Next
morning
{179}
she
consulted
me
as
to
the
whereabouts
of
a
certain
place,
let
me
call
it
'Meresby'.
I
suggested
the
use
of
a
postal
directory;
we
found
Meresby,
a
place
extremely
unknown
to
fame,
in
an
agricultural
district
about
five
hours
from
London
in
the
opposite
direction
from
Rapingham.
To
this
place
Mrs.
Claughton
said
she
must
go,
in
the
interest
and
by
the
order
of
certain
ghosts,
whom
she
saw
on
Monday
night,
and
whose
injunctions
she
had
taken
down
in
a
note-book.
She
has
left
Rapingham
for
London,
and
there,"
said
the
doctor,
"my
story
ends
for
the
present."
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