14/44 He followed later, and was the stranger seen by my gillie's father. The learned even think, for very exquisite reasons, that "Silverton Abbey" {192} is haunted noisily by a "spirit of the living". Here is a case:-- THE DREAM THAT KNOCKED AT THE DOOR The following is an old but good story. The Rev.Joseph Wilkins died, an aged man, in 1800. He left this narrative, often printed; the date of the adventure is 1754, when Mr.Wilkins, aged twenty-three, was a schoolmaster in Devonshire. |