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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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THE
LADY
IN
BLACK
A
ghost
in
a
haunted
house
is
seldom
observed
with
anything
like
scientific
precision.
The
spectre
in
the
following
narrative
could
not
be
photographed,
attempts
being
usually
made
in
a
light
which
required
prolonged
exposure.
Efforts
to
touch
it
were
failures,
nor
did
it
speak.
On
the
other
hand,
it
did
lend
itself,
perhaps
unconsciously,
to
one
scientific
experiment.
The
story
is
unromantic;
the
names
are
fictitious.
{198b}
Bognor
House,
an
eligible
family
residence
near
a
large
town,
was
built
in
1860,
and
occupied,
till
his
death
in
1876,
by
Mr.
S.
He
was
twice
married,
and
was
not
of
temperate
ways.
His
second
wife
adopted
his
habits,
left
him
shortly
before
his
death,
and
died
at
Clifton
in
1878.
The
pair
used
to
quarrel
about
some
jewels
which
Mr.
S.
concealed
in
the
flooring
of
a
room
where
the
ghost
was
never
seen.
A
Mr
L.
now
took
the
house,
but
died
six
months
later.
Bognor
House
stood
empty
for
four
years,
during
which
there
was
vague
talk
of
hauntings.
In
April,
1882,
the
house
was
taken
by
Captain
Morton.
This
was
in
April;
in
June
Miss
Rose
Morton,
a
lady
of
nineteen
studying
medicine
(and
wearing
spectacles),
saw
the
first
appearance.
Miss
Morton
did
not
mention
her
experiences
to
her
family,
her
mother
being
an
invalid,
and
her
brothers
and
sisters
very
young,
but
she
transmitted
accounts
to
a
friend,
a
lady,
in
a
kind
of
diary
letters.
These
are
extant,
and
are
quoted.
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