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ghost in At Midnight and Other Stories

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1897
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ghost in At Midnight and Other Stories

e rope, that you saw in the garden, wants attending to." "Certainly. I mean to keep a good look-out from the window. There will be a splendid moon if these clouds clear off. The fewer we are the better in a case of this sort. You don't catch fish if you make a splash in the water." "No, sir. But I…

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2,249
Year
1,897
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Record ID
2249
Source
Project Gutenberg Australia
Publication
At Midnight and Other Stories; Ada Cambridge
Published
1897
Narrative type
Ghost and Apparition Accounts
Public-text label
ghost
Archive period
Federation Era
Location
Australia (Australia): B
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e rope, that you saw in the garden, wants attending to." "Certainly. I mean to keep a good look-out from the window. There will be a splendid moon if these clouds clear off. The fewer we are the better in a case of this sort. You don't catch fish if you make a splash in the water." "No, sir. But I think it's my business to look after the man rather than the ghost, if it's all the same to you." Wingate agreed that a policeman must be allowed to know his own business best, and had a shrewd suspicion that this particular policeman would rather deal single-handed with fifty corporeal thieves of the most desperate character than with.

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