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Updated: May 31, 2025
"Peter," said the Ancient, "wheer be goin'?" "Home!" said I. "And wheer be that?" "The cottage in the Hollow," said I. "What th' 'aunted cottage?" he cried, staring. "Yes," I nodded; "from what I saw of it, I think, with a little repairing, it might suit me very well." "But the ghost?" cried the old man; "have ye forgot the ghost?"
But, above this murmur rose a voice, and I saw the Postilion push his way to the steps of the inn, and turn there, with hands clenched and raised above his head. "My master Sir Maurice Vibart is killed shot to death murdered down there in the 'aunted 'Oller!" he cried, "and, if you axes me who done it, I says to you 'e did so 'elp me God!" and speaking, he raised his whip and pointed at me.
You'd be jolly well locked up for mutiny." "I'd sooner be locked up," he said. "It don't kill you!" There was a murmur of agreement from the others, and then a moment of silence, in which, I know, the men were thinking. Jaskett's voice broke into it. "I never thought at first as she was 'aunted " he commenced; but Plummer cut in across his speech. "We mustn't 'urt any one, yer know," he said.
The luck of the brewer and his wife was no better than that of the Bangletops. Their cooks and they had fourteen during their stay there fled after an average service of four days apiece, and later the tenants themselves were forced to give up and return to London, where they told their friends that the "'all was 'aunted," which might have filled the Bangletops with concern had they heard of it.
He had reached thus far, when his eye, accustomed to the shadows, chancing to meet mine, he uttered a gasp, and stood staring at me with dropped jaw. "Peter!" he stammered at last. "Peter be that you, Peter?" "To be sure it is," said I. "Bean't ye dead, then?" "I never felt more full of life." "But ye slep' in th' 'aunted cottage last night." "Yes." "But but the ghost, Peter?"
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