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EXTRAORDINARY APPARITION.
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Here he gave him a particular description of the chest,
and of the outside, the lock and the cover, and also of the
inside, and of a private place in the chest, which no man
could come at, or find out, unless the whole chest was
pulled to pieces.
“ In that chest,” said he, “ and in that place, lies the
grand deed or charter of the estate which conveys the
inheritance, and without which the family will be reduced
to a state of abject indigence.”
After this discourse, and the Doctor promising to go
into the country to dispatch this important commission,
the apparition, putting on a very pleasant and smiling
aspect, thanked him and disappeared.
On the time appointed by the spectre, the Doctor went
down to the country, and finding the gentleman’s house
very readily by the directions, knocked at the door, and
asked if he was at home ; after being told he was, and
the servants telling their master it was a clergyman, the
gentleman came to the door and very courteously invited
him in.
The Doctor observed that the gentleman received him
with unexpected civility, though a stranger, and without
knowing his business. They entered into many friendly
discourses, and the Doctor pretended to have heard much
of the family, (as indeed he had) and of his grandfather,
“ from whom, Sir,” said he ; “I perceive the estate more
immediately descends to yourself.”
“ Aye,” returned the gentleman, and shook his head :
“ my father died young, and my grandfather has left
things so confused, that for want of one principal writing,
which is not yet come to hand, I have met with a great
deal of trouble from a couple of cousins, my grandfather’s
brother’s children, who have put me to a great expence
about it.”
Eccentric, No. V. e e “I hope
209
Here he gave him a particular description of the chest,
and of the outside, the lock and the cover, and also of the
inside, and of a private place in the chest, which no man
could come at, or find out, unless the whole chest was
pulled to pieces.
“ In that chest,” said he, “ and in that place, lies the
grand deed or charter of the estate which conveys the
inheritance, and without which the family will be reduced
to a state of abject indigence.”
After this discourse, and the Doctor promising to go
into the country to dispatch this important commission,
the apparition, putting on a very pleasant and smiling
aspect, thanked him and disappeared.
On the time appointed by the spectre, the Doctor went
down to the country, and finding the gentleman’s house
very readily by the directions, knocked at the door, and
asked if he was at home ; after being told he was, and
the servants telling their master it was a clergyman, the
gentleman came to the door and very courteously invited
him in.
The Doctor observed that the gentleman received him
with unexpected civility, though a stranger, and without
knowing his business. They entered into many friendly
discourses, and the Doctor pretended to have heard much
of the family, (as indeed he had) and of his grandfather,
“ from whom, Sir,” said he ; “I perceive the estate more
immediately descends to yourself.”
“ Aye,” returned the gentleman, and shook his head :
“ my father died young, and my grandfather has left
things so confused, that for want of one principal writing,
which is not yet come to hand, I have met with a great
deal of trouble from a couple of cousins, my grandfather’s
brother’s children, who have put me to a great expence
about it.”
Eccentric, No. V. e e “I hope