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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

CHAPTER VII
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I asked, "Was there any more guilty of that action but you ?" It answered, "No".

I asked again, "What is the reason you trouble me ?" It answered, "Because you are the youngest".

Then said I to it, "Depart from me, and give me a sign that I may know the particular spot, and give me time".

[Here there is written on the margin in a different hand, "You will find the bones at the side of a withered bush.

There are but eight of them, and for a sign you will find the print of a cross impressed on the ground."] On the morrow, being Thursday, I went alone to the Isle to see if I could find any sign, and immediately I saw both the bush, which was a small bush, the greatest stick in it being about the thickness of a staff, and it was withered about half-way down; and also the sign, which was about a foot from the bush.


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