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BRING CHILDREN TO VISIT SANTA CLAUS- AT "AQUALAND" (Second Floor).
THE SINCERE CO., LTD.
THE CHRISTMAS STORE
I
December 21, 1940.
MY QUEER ADVENTURE
By George Robey
the
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THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA. & CHINA.
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HAVE not had much ex- I felt very drowsy that night began poking about among the
Something perience of ghosts, but and fell asleep almost immedi- timber.
gleamed ately my head touched there is one remarkable epi- pillow.
dully in the light from my lamp. I strained my hand to it and brought it out. It was a very old, dusty penny, with Д mildewed, effigy of the young Alor Star Queen Victoria. I turned it Bangkok
Batavia On the other side was lombay
sode I shall not easily forget.
A. Startling
I had gone to spend Awakening Christmas in the country,
and was staying at a very in the morning when I suddenly another head of Queen Victoria
It must have been nearly four over. old house which a friend of started up in bed. And, im exactly the same as the first. A
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CURRENT ACCOUNTS epened
mine had owned for many mediately, I knew that I had not
awakened years. We had a merry don't consider myself easily
normally. Now double-headed penny! time on Christmas Day, and moved by so-called supernatural. I sat on the trestle to think. Colombo at half-past two, drowsy happenings, but just for a min- I was faintly excited. The two alphong |with good food, we were all spine, and I felt strangely un- story, had tossed a coin to de- Banking Business transacted.
ute a chill shiver ran down my brothers, according to the ghost kw
FOREIGN EXCHANGE and Generat sprawling round the great cry. Still sitting there I peered cide who should remain in pos- FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year open hearth, telling ghost round the room. Not a move session of the firm. Supposing or shorter periods in Local or Other Cur- stories. Naturally, the one I slipped from the bed and made John had deliberately used this application
double-headed connected with this particu- towards the window. lar house was given prece-
by unfair means. It was snowing. Softly, sud-
ter of the house told the tale trees and bushes heavily laden. house, in search of this penny?
ground was covered and the had seen coming to the out-laced at. any of its Agencies and ter of the house told the. I stood there for a moment fas- Or had it been merely a trick of tale
cinated by the leisurely beauty
ment; not a sound. Reassured,
rencies at rates which will be quoted on
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS eine apened in penny and won Local Currency and Sterling with interest allowed at rates obtalitable on application The Bank's Head Once In London undertakes Executor & Trustee business and claime recovery of British Income
dence. The youngest daugh- by the flakes fell. Already the Then was it Richard's ghost Tax overpaid, on terms which may be
It appeared that some genera of that falling snow. And then the snow on the bushes, and was
my finding the penny at tions ago the whole place, with suddenly I stiffened.
the its surrounding Innd, had been A Ghost?
same time, merely a coinci. Inherited by two brothers who
dence? Again, had the penny
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simply could not get on to- Out there by the old outhouse any connection whatever with gether. Friction occurred
something had started up from the two brothers? hourly, and not a day passed wave of white came up sudden- the snow. It was as though a
I returned to my room, put without a fierce quarrel, ty. Was I dreaming, or was it the penny on my dressing-table, moving forward? I pressed my and climbed back to bed. To- The Toss of a Coin face to the window pane. Yes! morrow, I would tell them what Bangkok
It was moving-It had gone into had happened, and produce the Eleut One Christmas Eve found the outhouse! I thought quick- them quarrelling again.
penny to prove what I said, It was ly. If I awakened the others then that Richard suggested, they probably wouldn't believe Lost half jokingly, that they should me, and in any case would go toss a coin to decide which of noisily to investigate, and spoil
It must have been half-past everything. Supposing I slip-six when I wakened again. Once Every description them should remain in posses- ped down alone. sion of the farm, and which go
more I felt it was not quite a abroad. John examined the I put on a dressing-gown and normal awakening. I had heard suggestion carefully. They went haps, after all, it was only a of sounds-and yet I was not Local Currency and Sterling on terms that crept into the passage. Per something. A peculiar series rency and Fixed Deposits received in into details. And finally they trick of the snow on the bushes tossed. John won.
-moved by the wind maybe.
definitely. certain that I had may be ascertained on application. heard anything. I turned over Twenty years later the ghost A Strange Silence and slept. of Richard, the brother who had lost, began to haunt the house. I approached the outhouse Almost the first thing I no- Villagers and servants about door. I slid my head round and that the penny no longer lay on cautiously. Now I was at the ticed when I awoke again was the place were reported to have suddenly closed my teeth with
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seen the apparition on two oc- a snup. In the instant that my the dressing-table. I searched casions recently, and both times head first appeared round the everywhere. Indirectly, I ques- the ghost had been juggling with corner, I had the feeling that tioned. everyone in the house pennica. Apparently, it
something had vanished. from without telling them what had fre- beside the old cartwheel lying happened. But the penny was quented a very old outhouse inside. I waited a few seconds nearby.
and then called, "Who's there? not forthcoming. It had -At-this-juncture-in-her-story-
Who's there?" My voice echoed vanished completely, and I never the daughter of the house was the stealthy whisperings of the
faintly. Then silence, save for found it again, interrupted by her elder sister, fulling snow.
Now, if I had believed in who very determinedly
ghosts, I would have said that ап- I struck a match. An oil Richard's ghost came to my nounced that she had never lamp stood on a nearby trestle. room and took that penny. But, seen the wretched ghost, any- I lit it and began exploring. way.
The rest of the family There was no sign of life. I somehow, that seemed rather laughingly agreed. No one, spent a long time examining the improbable. In fact, the whole apart from an impressionable old cartwheel where I thought story from beginning to end, maidservant and some gossip- been. It was a very old wheel very strange.
that something or some one had when I reconsidered it, seemed ing villagers, had actually seen with a pile of broken timber be-
the ghost, and it was quite evi- hind it. dent that the family pooh-
However, I have merely set down here exactly what hap-
poohed the whole story. Any- Peculiar Discovery pened on that queer Christmas,
way, it quickly faded from our conversation.
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Exerting all my strength I and leave it without further managed to move the wheel and comment.
"TELEGRAPH” SATURDAY FEATURE
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chaste.
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torkin abart eve wet wos' the
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