[Gutenberg 55708] • Death, the Knight, and the Lady: A Ghost Story

Excerpt from Death the Knight and the Lady: A Ghost Story

I had almost forgotten James Wilder's existence, when, one night in June, I received an urgent message asking me to call upon him without delay.

An hour later I was sitting in his library, and in the arm-chair Opposite mine was sunk what seemed the spectre of my friend. During the 'ten months that had elapsed since our last meeting he had passed from middle life to premature Old age.

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