A Book of Ghosts
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- A BOOK OF GHOSTS
- WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY D. MURRAY SMITH SECOND EDITION METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON Colonial Library First Published October 1904 Second Edition December 1904
- "WHO ARE YOU?"
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- A BOOK OF GHOSTS
- JEAN BOUCHON
- "JEAN BOUCHON MORT SUR LE CHAMP DE GLOIRE 1870 DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI."
- POMPS AND VANITIES
- THEN THE BRIDE PUT BACK HER VEIL, AND BETTY, STUDYING THE WHITE FACE, SAW THAT THIS ACTUALLY WAS NOT HERSELF; IT WAS HER DEAD SISTER LETICE.
- McALISTER
- THE LEADEN RING
- HER HAT WAS BLOWN OFF, AND NEXT INSTANT A DETONATION RANG THROUGH HER HEAD AS THOUGH A GUN HAD BEEN FIRED INTO HER EAR.
- THE MOTHER OF PANSIES
- THE RED-HAIRED GIRL
- A WIFE'S STORY
- A PROFESSIONAL SECRET
- IF HE WENT OUT FOR A WALK THEY TROTTED FORTH WITH HIM, SOME BEFORE, SOME FOLLOWING.
- H. P.
- GLÁMR
- COLONEL HALIFAX'S GHOST STORY
- THE MEREWIGS
- THE "BOLD VENTURE"
- MUSTAPHA
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- "YOU LET THAT MUSTAPHA COME IN, AND TRY AND STICK HIS KNIFE INTO ME."
- LITTLE JOE GANDER
- "MAMMY," SAID HE, "MAMMY, MY VIOLIN COST THREE SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE, AND I CAN'T MAKE IT PLAY NOWAYS."
- A DEAD FINGER
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- BLACK RAM
- A HAPPY RELEASE
- "I BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE TALKING GOODY-GOODY."
- THE 9.30 UP-TRAIN
- ON THE LEADS
- AUNT JOANNA
- SHE THRUST HER HAND INTO THE TEAPOT AND DREW FORTH THE COINS, ONE BY ONE, AND ROLLED THEM ALONG THE TABLE.
- THE WHITE FLAG
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