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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
177
On
hearing
of
this
letter
from
Mrs.
Claughton,
I
confess
that,
not
knowing
the
lady,
I
remained
purely
sceptical.
The
railway
company,
however,
vouched
for
the
ticket.
The
rector
of
Meresby,
being
appealed
to,
knew
nothing
of
the
matter.
He
therefore
sent
for
his
curate
and
parish
clerk.
"Did
a
lady
pass
part
of
Sunday
night
in
the
church?"
The
clerk
and
the
curate
admitted
that
this
unusual
event
had
occurred.
A
lady
had
arrived
from
London
on
Saturday
evening;
had
lodged
with
Wright,
the
parish
clerk;
had
asked
for
the
parish
registers;
had
compared
them
with
her
note-book
after
morning
service
on
Sunday,
and
had
begged
leave
to
pass
part
of
the
night
in
the
church.
The
curate
in
vain
tried
to
dissuade
her,
and
finally,
washing
his
hands
of
it,
had
left
her
to
Wright
the
clerk.
To
him
she
described
a
Mr.
George
Howard,
deceased
(one
of
the
ghosts).
He
recognised
the
description,
and
he
accompanied
her
to
the
church
on
a
dark
night,
starting
at
one
o'clock.
She
stayed
alone,
without
a
light,
in
the
locked-up
church
from
1.20
to
1.45,
when
he
let
her
out.
There
now
remained
no
doubt
that
Mrs.
Claughton
had
really
gone
to
Meresby,
a
long
and
disagreeable
journey,
and
had
been
locked
up
in
the
church
alone
at
a
witching
hour.
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