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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
77
Something
of
the
same
kind
may
or
may
not
explain
Mr.
Hyndford's
view
of
the
family
coach,
which
gave
no
traceable
information.
The
following
story,
in
which
an
appearance
of
the
dead
conveyed
information
not
known
to
the
seer,
and
so
deserving
to
be
called
veracious,
is
a
little
ghastly.
THE
BRIGHT
SCAR
In
1867,
Miss
G.,
aged
eighteen,
died
suddenly
of
cholera
in
St.
Louis.
In
1876
a
brother,
F.
G.,
who
was
much
attached
to
her,
had
done
a
good
day's
business
in
St.
Joseph.
He
was
sending
in
his
orders
to
his
employers
(he
is
a
commercial
traveller)
and
was
smoking
a
cigar,
when
he
became
conscious
that
some
one
was
sitting
on
his
left,
with
one
arm
on
the
table.
It
was
his
dead
sister.
He
sprang
up
to
embrace
her
(for
even
on
meeting
a
stranger
whom
we
take
for
a
dead
friend,
we
never
realise
the
impossibility
in
the
half
moment
of
surprise)
but
she
was
gone.
Mr.
G.
stood
there,
the
ink
wet
on
his
pen,
the
cigar
lighted
in
his
hand,
the
name
of
his
sister
on
his
lips.
He
had
noted
her
expression,
features,
dress,
the
kindness
of
her
eyes,
the
glow
of
the
complexion,
and
what
he
had
never
seen
before,
a
bright
red
scratch
on
the
right
side
of
her
face.
Mr.
G.
took
the
next
train
home
to
St.
Louis,
and
told
the
story
to
his
parents.
His
father
was
inclined
to
ridicule
him,
but
his
mother
nearly
fainted.
When
she
could
control
herself,
she
said
that,
unknown
to
any
one,
she
had
accidentally
scratched
the
face
of
the
dead,
apparently
with
the
pin
of
her
brooch,
while
arranging
something
about
the
corpse.
She
had
obliterated
the
scratch
with
powder,
and
had
kept
the
fact
to
herself.
"She
told
me
she
knew
at
least
that
I
had
seen
my
sister."
A
few
weeks
later
Mrs.
G.
died.
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