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EXTRAORDINARY APPARITION.
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the chests, the coffers, and the trunks ; look on them,
see how they are piled up one upon another, almost to
the cieling.”
With this the Doctor goes on, and looks about him,
for this seemed to be the place he was directed to, and
which he wanted to see. He had not been in the room
two minutes, before he found every thing just as the spec-
tre at London had described. He went directly to the
pile he had been told of, and fixed his eye upon the very
chest, with the old rusty lock upon it, which would neither
turn round, nor come out.
“ Upon my word,” says the Doctor, “you have taken
pains enough, if you have rummaged all these drawers,
chests, and coffers, and every thing that may have been
in them.”
“ Indeed, Sir I” says the gentleman, “ I have emptied
every one of them myself, and looked over all the old
musty writings, one by one, with some help indeed, but
they every one passed through my own hands, and under
my own eyes.”
“ Well, Sir,” says the Doctor, “ I see you have been
in earnest, and I find the thing is of great consequence
to you.
“ I have a strange fancy come into my head this very
moment; will you gratify my curiosity with only opening
and emptying one small chest, or coffer, that I have cast
my eye upon? There may be nothing in it; for you are
satisfied, I believe, that I never was here before : but I
have a strange notion that there are some private places
in it, which you have not found; perhaps there may be
nothing in them, when they are found.”
The gentleman looked on the chest smiling: “Ire-
member opening it very welland turning to his servant,
“Will,” says he, “don’t you remember that chest?”—
“ Yes, sir,” says Will, “ very well ; I remember you were
so
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the chests, the coffers, and the trunks ; look on them,
see how they are piled up one upon another, almost to
the cieling.”
With this the Doctor goes on, and looks about him,
for this seemed to be the place he was directed to, and
which he wanted to see. He had not been in the room
two minutes, before he found every thing just as the spec-
tre at London had described. He went directly to the
pile he had been told of, and fixed his eye upon the very
chest, with the old rusty lock upon it, which would neither
turn round, nor come out.
“ Upon my word,” says the Doctor, “you have taken
pains enough, if you have rummaged all these drawers,
chests, and coffers, and every thing that may have been
in them.”
“ Indeed, Sir I” says the gentleman, “ I have emptied
every one of them myself, and looked over all the old
musty writings, one by one, with some help indeed, but
they every one passed through my own hands, and under
my own eyes.”
“ Well, Sir,” says the Doctor, “ I see you have been
in earnest, and I find the thing is of great consequence
to you.
“ I have a strange fancy come into my head this very
moment; will you gratify my curiosity with only opening
and emptying one small chest, or coffer, that I have cast
my eye upon? There may be nothing in it; for you are
satisfied, I believe, that I never was here before : but I
have a strange notion that there are some private places
in it, which you have not found; perhaps there may be
nothing in them, when they are found.”
The gentleman looked on the chest smiling: “Ire-
member opening it very welland turning to his servant,
“Will,” says he, “don’t you remember that chest?”—
“ Yes, sir,” says Will, “ very well ; I remember you were
so