A GHOST STORY.
A really first-class gho3t story comes from Melboui .e. In the Princess's Theatre a fireman is on duty all night. He has to go round] the building at regular intervals and keep a record of his vigilance by pressing switches connected with an electric clock. The fireman, while on duty, was walking through the gallery, when he saw below, in the dress circle, the figure of a man in evening dress. So clearly was the man defined that the fireman was able to declare that he looked abjut 35 or 40 years of age, and was slightly bald. Thinking he was one of the audience that had had the misfortune to he locked in, the watchman called out, "Hullo, there! Have you been locked in? I'll come down and let you out." To this and other remarks the stranger vouchsafed no answer, and when the fireman reached the circle there was no man there. Never doubting that wha<; he had seen was flesh and blood, the fireman searched the whole building, and afr.er four and a half hours' fruitless work, sent for the police. Imagine, therefore, the astonishment of the watchman when he saw the tame inan standing in the same place the next night. This time he said nothing, but tried to stalk the stranger, but it was no use—ths man vanished at the last moment. Thereafter the figure appeared frequently. "I have tried him every way," says the fireman. "I have crept up to him. I've given him the lights suddenly. I've even brought a revolver, and got it dead on him, and told him so, and said that I was going to shoot him. But he never blinked an eyelid—never moved a muscle. Oh, no It isn't a man, and, of course, it isnn't| a ghost. My own opinion is it's a shadow." Other people think it is a ghost.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10066, 11 June 1910, Page 4
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316A GHOST STORY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10066, 11 June 1910, Page 4
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