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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
76
He
was
very
pale,
the
face
was
a
dead
man's
face,
he
was
stouter
than
when
Mr.
Barter
knew
him
and
he
wore
a
dark
Newgate
fringe.
Mr.
Barter
dashed
up
the
bank,
the
earth
thrown
up
in
making
the
bridle
path
crumbled
under
him,
he
fell,
scrambled
on,
reached
the
bridle
path
where
the
group
had
stopped,
and
found
nobody.
Mr.
Barter
ran
up
the
path
for
a
hundred
yards,
as
nobody
could
go
down
it
except
over
a
precipice,
and
neither
heard
nor
saw
anything.
His
dogs
did
not
accompany
him.
Next
day
Mr.
Barter
gently
led
his
friend
Deane
to
talk
of
Lieutenant
B.,
who
said
that
the
lieutenant
"grew
very
bloated
before
his
death,
and
while
on
the
sick
list
he
allowed
the
fringe
to
grow
in
spite
of
all
we
could
say
to
him,
and
I
believe
he
was
buried
with
it".
Mr.
Barter
then
asked
where
he
got
the
pony,
describing
it
minutely.
"He
bought
him
at
Peshawur,
and
killed
him
one
day,
riding
in
his
reckless
fashion
down
the
hill
to
Trete."
Mr.
Barter
and
his
wife
often
heard
the
horse's
hoofs
later,
though
he
doubts
if
any
one
but
B.
had
ever
ridden
the
bridle
path.
His
Hindoo
bearer
he
found
one
day
armed
with
a
lattie,
being
determined
to
waylay
the
sound,
which
"passed
him
like
a
typhoon".
{74}
Here
the
appearance
gave
correct
information
unknown
previously
to
General
Barter,
namely,
that
Lieutenant
B.
grew
stout
and
wore
a
beard
before
his
death,
also
that
he
had
owned
a
brown
pony,
with
black
mane
and
tail.
Even
granting
that
the
ghosts
of
the
pony
and
lieutenant
were
present
(both
being
dead),
we
are
not
informed
that
the
grooms
were
dead
also.
The
hallucination,
on
the
theory
of
"mental
telegraphy,"
was
telegraphed
to
General
Barter's
mind
from
some
one
who
had
seen
Lieutenant
B.
ride
home
from
mess
not
very
sober,
or
from
the
mind
of
the
defunct
lieutenant,
or,
perhaps,
from
that
of
the
deceased
pony.
The
message
also
reached
and
alarmed
General
Barter's
dogs.
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