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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
53
THE
SCAR
IN
THE
MOUSTACHE
This
story
was
told
to
the
writer
by
his
old
head-master,
the
Rev.
Dr.
Hodson,
brother
of
Hodson,
of
Hodson's
Horse,
a
person
whom
I
never
heard
make
any
other
allusion
to
such
topics.
Dr.
Hodson
was
staying
with
friends
in
Switzerland
during
the
holidays.
One
morning,
as
he
lay
awake,
he
seemed
to
see
into
a
room
as
if
the
wall
of
his
bedroom
had
been
cut
out.
In
the
room
were
a
lady
well
known
to
him
and
a
man
whom
he
did
not
know.
The
man's
back
was
turned
to
the
looker-on.
The
scene
vanished,
and
grew
again.
Now
the
man
faced
Dr.
Hodson;
the
face
was
unfamiliar,
and
had
a
deep
white
scar
seaming
the
moustache.
Dr.
Hodson
mentioned
the
circumstance
to
his
friends,
and
thought
little
of
it.
He
returned
home,
and,
one
day,
in
Perth
station,
met
the
lady
at
the
book-stall.
He
went
up
to
accost
her,
and
was
surprised
by
the
uneasiness
of
her
manner.
A
gentleman
now
joined
them,
with
a
deep
white
scar
through
his
moustache.
Dr.
Hodson
now
recalled,
what
had
slipped
his
memory,
that
the
lady
during
his
absence
from
Scotland
had
eloped
with
an
officer,
the
man
of
the
vision
and
the
railway
station.
He
did
not
say,
or
perhaps
know,
whether
the
elopement
was
prior
to
the
kind
of
dream
in
Switzerland.
Here
is
a
dream
representing
a
future
event,
with
details
which
could
not
be
guessed
beforehand.
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