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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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The
family
now
moved
to
their
town
house,
and
the
inquest
continued,
though
the
raps
were
only
heard
near
the
lady.
A
Dr.
Dubinsky
vowed
that
she
made
them
herself,
with
her
tongue;
then,
with
her
pulse.
The
doctor
assailed,
and
finally
shook
the
faith
of
Mr.
Akutin,
who
was
to
furnish
a
report.
"He
bribed
a
servant
boy
to
say
that
his
mistress
made
the
sounds
herself,
and
then
pretended
that
he
had
caught
her
trying
to
deceive
us
by
throwing
things."
Finally
Mr.
Akutin
reported
that
the
whole
affair
was
a
hysterical
imposition
by
Mrs.
Shchapoff.
Dr.
Dubinsky
attended
her,
her
health
and
spirits
improved,
and
the
disturbances
ceased.
But
poor
Mr.
Shchapoff
received
an
official
warning
not
to
do
it
again,
from
the
governor
of
his
province.
That
way
lies
Siberia.
"Imagine,
then,"
exclaims
Mr.
Shchapoff,
"our
horror,
when,
on
our
return
to
the
country
in
March,
the
unknown
force
at
once
set
to
work
again.
And
now
even
my
wife's
presence
was
not
essential.
Thus,
one
day,
I
saw
with
my
own
eyes
a
heavy
sofa
jump
off
all
four
legs
(three
or
four
times
in
fact),
and
this
when
my
aged
mother
was
lying
on
it."
The
same
thing
occurred
to
Nancy
Wesley's
bed,
on
which
she
was
sitting
while
playing
cards
in
1717.
The
picture
of
a
lady
of
seventy,
sitting
tight
to
a
bucking
sofa,
appeals
to
the
brave.
Then
the
fire-raising
began.
A
blue
spark
flew
out
of
a
wash-stand,
into
Mrs.
Shchapoff's
bedroom.
Luckily
she
was
absent,
and
her
mother,
rushing
forward
with
a
water-jug,
extinguished
a
flaming
cotton
dress.
Bright
red
globular
meteors
now
danced
in
the
veranda.
Mr.
Portnoff
next
takes
up
the
tale
as
follows,
Mr.
Shchapoff
having
been
absent
from
home
on
the
occasion
described.
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