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EXTRAORDINARY APPARITION.
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“ Truly,” said the Doctor, “ he may have hid it in such
a manner, as to oblige you to pull the house down before
you find it, or perhaps not even then ; for I have known
such things utterly lost, notwithstanding all the care
imaginable to preserve them. I suppose you have
searched all the old gentleman’s chests, and trunks, and
coffers, over and over.”
“ Aye,” replied the gentleman, “ and turned them all
inside out, and there they lie all on a heap up in a great
loft or garret, with nothing in them : nay, we knocked
three or four of them into pieces to search for private
drawers, and then burnt them for anger, though they
were fine cypress chests, that cost a deal of money when
they were in fashion.”
“ I am sorry you burnt them,” said the Doctor.
“ Nay, Sir, I did not burn a scrap of them, till they
were all split to pieces, and it was not possible any thing
should be there.”
This made the Doctor a little easy, for he began to be
surprised, when he told him he had split some of them
and burnt them.
“Well, Sir,” said the Doctor, “if I can do you any
service, I’ll come and see you again to-morrow, and assist
you in your search, with all my good wishes.”
“ Nay,” says the gentleman, “ I don’t design to part
with you; for since you are so kind as to offer me your
help, you shall stay all night with me, and be at the first
of it.”
The Doctor had now gained his point so far as to make
himself acquainted and desirable in the house, and to
have a kind of intimacy ; so that though he made as if he
would go, he did not want much intreaty to make him
stay, but consented to lie in the house all night.
A little before night the gentleman asked him to take a
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211
“ Truly,” said the Doctor, “ he may have hid it in such
a manner, as to oblige you to pull the house down before
you find it, or perhaps not even then ; for I have known
such things utterly lost, notwithstanding all the care
imaginable to preserve them. I suppose you have
searched all the old gentleman’s chests, and trunks, and
coffers, over and over.”
“ Aye,” replied the gentleman, “ and turned them all
inside out, and there they lie all on a heap up in a great
loft or garret, with nothing in them : nay, we knocked
three or four of them into pieces to search for private
drawers, and then burnt them for anger, though they
were fine cypress chests, that cost a deal of money when
they were in fashion.”
“ I am sorry you burnt them,” said the Doctor.
“ Nay, Sir, I did not burn a scrap of them, till they
were all split to pieces, and it was not possible any thing
should be there.”
This made the Doctor a little easy, for he began to be
surprised, when he told him he had split some of them
and burnt them.
“Well, Sir,” said the Doctor, “if I can do you any
service, I’ll come and see you again to-morrow, and assist
you in your search, with all my good wishes.”
“ Nay,” says the gentleman, “ I don’t design to part
with you; for since you are so kind as to offer me your
help, you shall stay all night with me, and be at the first
of it.”
The Doctor had now gained his point so far as to make
himself acquainted and desirable in the house, and to
have a kind of intimacy ; so that though he made as if he
would go, he did not want much intreaty to make him
stay, but consented to lie in the house all night.
A little before night the gentleman asked him to take a
e e 2 walk