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Show Tilki Collins' Ghost a, "Mr. Wilkie Collins,-' says a Pall Jrall Gn-, Gn-, eetto writer, "is again suffering frnrti his old enemy tho pout, which has pursued him I with fiendish malignity for years. Tho fa-j fa-j mous novelist once related to me with his I own hps tho history of 'The Moonstone,' and J said that Bnme of the most entertaining scenes of that exciting novel were dictated 1 when in the grasp of the gout devil. If gout I is the enemy 01 his old a;;e, ghosts persecuted : him when lie was young, so that the life of 1 the popular novelist has not bwn all boor . and skillies. 'When 1 was writing "The I Woman in White," said Mr. Collins, 'I often used to take up my work a little befnro midnight and work into the small hours e.' the morning. Then tho most borrihle muti-rt-i-s, with green eyes tn ,:.;.iul fang and ioiimg tongues ..L..11 m-.-et mo on the stair-cax stair-cax and fol'oiv mc to bed, not one, but ml-t j.i"ier night. Of course tlit-y were the rult of overwork, and a rest banished them frnm my overwrought brain.' " New York Tiibuna |