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Title: A Thin Ghost and Others

Author: M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

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A THIN GHOST AND OTHERS

by

MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES, LITT.D.

Provost Of Eton College
Author of "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary," "More Ghost Stories," etc.

Third Impression

New York
Longmans, Green & Co.
London: Edward Arnold
1920
(All rights reserved)

PREFACE

Two of these stories, the third and fourth, have appeared in print in
the _Cambridge Review_, and I wish to thank the proprietor for
permitting me to republish them here.

I have had my doubts about the wisdom of publishing a third set of
tales; sequels are, not only proverbially but actually, very hazardous
things. However, the tales make no pretence but to amuse, and my
friends have not seldom asked for the publication. So not a great deal
is risked, perhaps, and perhaps also some one's Christmas may be the
cheerfuller for a storybook which, I think, only once mentions the
war.

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE RESIDENCE AT WHITMINSTER 1

THE DIARY OF MR. POYNTER 49

AN EPISODE OF CATHEDRAL HISTORY 73

THE STORY OF A DISAPPEARANCE AND AN APPEARANCE 107

TWO DOCTORS 135

THE RESIDENCE AT WHITMINSTER

A Thin Ghost and Others

THE RESIDENCE AT WHITMINSTER

Dr. Ashton--Thomas Ashton, Doctor of Divinity--sat in his study,
habited in a dressing-gown, and with a silk cap on his shaven
head--his wig being for the time taken off and placed on its block on
a side table. He was a man of some fifty-five years, strongly made, of
a s