The Book of Shadows Vol 1

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THE ROLL-CALL. OF THE REEF

THE DEMOISELLE D’YS

THE MAGIC SHOP

THE LOST GHOST

THE VIOLET CAR

ROSE ROSE

THE HOUSE WITH. THE BRICK-KILN

THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER

THE HOLLOW MAN

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The Roll-Call of the Reef

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The rest of the tale you’m free to believe, sir, or not, as you please. It stands upon my father’s words, and he always declared he was ready to kiss the Book upon it before judge and jury. He said, too, that he never had the wit to make up such a yarn; and he defied anyone to explain about the lock, in particular, by any other tale. But you shall judge for yourself.

My father said that about three o’clock in the morning, April fourteenth of the year fourteen, he and William Tallifer were sitting here, just as you and I, sir, are sitting now. My father had put on his clothes a few minutes before, and was mending his spiller by the light of the horn lantern, meaning to set off before daylight to haul the trammel. The trumpeter hadn’t been to bed at all. Towards the last he mostly spent his nights (and his days, too) dozing in the elbow-chair where you sit at this minute. He was dozing then (my father said), with his chin dropped forward on his chest, when a knock sounded upon the door, and the door opened, and in walked an upright young man in scarlet regimentals.

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