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Introduction by Arthur B. Reeve The Apparition of Mrs. Veal Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book The Haunted and the Haunters The Silent Woman Banshees The Man Who Went Too Far The Woman's Ghost Story The Phantom Rickshaw The Rival Ghosts The Damned Thing The Interval Dey Ain't No Ghosts Some Real American Ghosts Show Excerpt ould often say, Mrs. Bargrave, you are not only the best, but the only friend I have in the world, and no circumstances of life shall ever dissolve my friendship. They would often condole each other's adverse fortunes, and read together Drelincourt upon Death, and other good books; and so, like two Christian friends, they comforted each other under their sorrow. Some time after, Mr. Veal's friends got him a place in the custom-house at Dover, which occasioned Mrs. Veal, by little and little, to fall off from her intimacy with Mrs. Bargrave, though there was never any such thing as a quarrel; but an indifferency came on by degrees, till at last Mrs. Bargrave had not seen her in two years and a half; though above a twelvemonth of the time Mrs. Bargrave hath been absent from Dover, and this last half year has been in Canterbury about two months of the time, dwelling in a house of her own. In this house, on the 8th of September, 1705, she was sitting alone in the forenoon, thinking over her unfortun
