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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
85
THE
MAN
AT
THE
LIFT
In
the
same
way,
in
August,
1890,
a
lady
in
a
Boston
hotel
in
the
dusk
rang
for
the
lift,
walked
along
the
corridor
and
looked
out
of
a
window,
started
to
run
to
the
door
of
the
lift,
saw
a
man
in
front
of
it,
stopped,
and
when
the
lighted
lift
came
up,
found
that
the
door
was
wide
open
and
that,
had
she
run
on
as
she
intended,
she
would
have
fallen
down
the
well.
Here
part
of
her
mind
may
have
known
that
the
door
was
open,
and
started
a
ghost
(for
there
was
no
real
man
there)
to
stop
her.
Pity
that
these
things
do
not
occur
more
frequently.
They
do--in
New
Zealand.
{82}
These
are
a
few
examples
of
useful
veracious
waking
dreams.
The
sort
of
which
we
hear
most
are
"wraiths".
A,
when
awake,
meets
B,
who
is
dead
or
dying
or
quite
well
at
a
distance.
The
number
of
these
stories
is
legion.
To
these
we
advance,
under
their
Highland
title,
spirits
of
the
living.
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