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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
192
THE
DOG
IN
THE
HAUNTED
ROOM
The
author's
friend,
Mr.
Rokeby,
lives,
and
has
lived
for
some
twenty
years,
in
an
old
house
at
Hammersmith.
It
is
surrounded
by
a
large
garden,
the
drawing-room
and
dining-room
are
on
the
right
and
left
of
the
entrance
from
the
garden,
on
the
ground
floor.
My
friends
had
never
been
troubled
by
any
phenomena
before,
and
never
expected
to
be.
However,
they
found
the
house
"noisy,"
the
windows
were
apt
to
be
violently
shaken
at
night
and
steps
used
to
be
heard
where
no
steps
should
be.
Deep
long
sighs
were
audible
at
all
times
of
day.
As
Mrs.
Rokeby
approached
a
door,
the
handle
would
turn
and
the
door
fly
open.
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Sounds
of
stitching
a
hard
material,
and
of
dragging
a
heavy
weight
occurred
in
Mrs.
Rokeby's
room,
and
her
hair
used
to
be
pulled
in
a
manner
for
which
she
could
not
account.
"These
sorts
of
things
went
on
for
about
five
years,
when
in
October,
1875,
about
three
o'clock
in
the
afternoon,
I
was
sitting"
(says
Mrs.
Rokeby)
"with
three
of
my
children
in
the
dining-room,
reading
to
them.
I
rang
the
bell
for
the
parlour-maid,
when
the
door
opened,
and
on
looking
up
I
saw
the
figure
of
a
woman
come
in
and
walk
up
to
the
side
of
the
table,
stand
there
a
second
or
two,
and
then
turn
to
go
out
again,
but
before
reaching
the
door
she
seemed
to
dissolve
away.
She
was
a
grey,
short-looking
woman,
apparently
dressed
in
grey
muslin.
I
hardly
saw
the
face,
which
seemed
scarcely
to
be
defined
at
all.
None
of
the
children
saw
her,"
and
Mrs.
Rokeby
only
mentioned
the
affair
at
the
time
to
her
husband.
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