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Show IS HAUNTED BY GIRL'S GHOST. Spectral Form That Inhabits Old Forts at Southwlck. Southwlck, the pretty little seaside resort a few miles from Brighton, England, Eng-land, has found out that It has a ghost, and efforts aro being made by tho Inhabitants to discover Its identity. iden-tity. , Tho story of tho discovery Is told by a correspondent of the Hovo Gazette, Ga-zette, who states that one evening recently re-cently he visited the disused forta at Southwlck in company wUh a friend. "We walked 'round the moat," he continues, "and were looking through ono of the narrow windows Into a small room, whose walls used to echo with the songs and laughter of the soldiers stationed there, when suddenly sudden-ly (It was about 9:45 p. m., and darkness dark-ness was Just setting In) we saw a tall white form attired In a white rheet. "It was horribly ghastly and grim. It seemed to come from the far end of the room and slowly approach us. I must say I was dreadfully afraid, and my young friend, who had Just re-marked: re-marked: "Oh, this would be a capital spot for a ghost,' shook all over and neatly fainted. "Tho flguro was tall, and Its covering, cover-ing, aa far as ono could seo, waa extremely ex-tremely thin. "An old Southwlck boatman told us a wonderful yarn about a young soldier sol-dier who had rowed a beautiful maiden maid-en over tho bar lato one night and had cruelly murdered hor there, and ever since hor spirit had haunted tho fort. "I think thore Is no doubt that the peculiar spectral form which we saw in tho room of the old fort was tho spirit of tho dead and long-forgotten maldon." |
