Show HEARD MUSICAL GHOST AUTHORS experience 1 NEW IN SPOOK LI lad N e sound sounds too long continued to de be ex plaines away as illusion and s nd lie litener are satisfied it wax wall a spirit writ visitor ohavo never seen a ghost but once in tho the company of a friend I 1 beard heard a chast eine sing it was mas in london I 1 must not men tion tho the house because to say a house ie Is haunted in london is criminal 11 bol bel this bouse house was as haunted ed I 1 knew it was haunted but tho the ghost had never troubled me it bothered a friend of mine who nho spent an au all in thy the house by tram plug up tho the stairs in thu the middle of the night it troubled ay my secretary who used to work alono alone in the bouse house in ohp th evening sometimes b opening and shutting the doors it troubled the police by lighting up the bouse boube and giving a falso false alarm of burglars in the middle of the night it never trou brou bled me inc I 1 never saw it I 1 never felt IL I 1 never heard it till this once it was about one 0 clock in the morning I 1 was as bitting sitting in my sitting room with ith a friend whom I 1 will call X who is to a well known knon author ono one generally adds in a ghost story and who was a hardheaded hard headed man of busl bust ness utterly skeptical and completely matter of fact as if th tb it had anything to do with ith it ic we had bad just come in and were mere expecting another briend who lived in the house and we e wore were sitting up for him wo we were talking about Swin S burnes In verse and I 1 took do down n the first edition of atalanta in which I 1 then possessed and which I 1 foolishly sold for a small sum it was immediately aft erward resold at an auction for a largo sum and went to america and is now in some collectors 11 arary and I 1 read out a passage As I 1 was reading wo heard singing next door I 1 said theres phil and pay any further attention as I 1 expected him to come in and I 1 went ment on reading aut the singing continued it sounded foreign forel n like spanish this surprise us as phil 1 was in the habit of singing proven provencal cal songs the singing went on and as he como come in we went N ent to meet him and opened the door the next room was a tiny anteroom ante room opening into another ditting room and beyond ahlis again was th smallest of bedrooms not bigger than a cupboard there was nobody there but the singing went an on such curious singing too strange ullen allen faint as it if four confused voices were singing the nong song of an earlier century it was as unreal and it had a kind of burr in it as rs it if you were listening to voices on a telephone that Is out of order we walked through the rooms and we e walked through the singing and we beard heard it behind us still going on and in the bedroom we found our friend isleen in bis his bed then the singing topped now as we walked through the sitting room I 1 noticed my friends frie hair in KIpU Kip linga ngu phrase sitting up I 1 daresay he noticed the same thing bout mine or he would have done 11 0 had I 1 any chair hair to notice itan |