THE PHANTOM COACH: Collected Ghost Stories (59 page)
Notes
Introduction
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The ‘B’ name is sometimes given as ‘Blandford’ in various reference books, but is specifically spelt ‘Blanford’ (twice) in Edwards’s last will and testament, as well as in
The Dictionary of National Biography
.
‘The Discovery of the Treasure Isles’
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From a MS found on a bookstall,
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The writer alludes, evidently, to King George III, who was proclaimed throughout the kingdom on 26
th
October, 1760; King George II having died suddenly, at Kensington, on the 25
th
.
‘The Recollections of Professor Henneberg’
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‘Blessed be the day, the month, the year, the season, the weather, the hour, and point of time, and the beautiful country, and the place where I was taken captive by those two beautiful eyes which have enchanted me!’
‘A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest’
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Kermess
—a fair.
‘Four Stories’
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In the Beresford story, a similar ineffaceable mark is said to have been made by an apparition on the lady’s wrist. It may be worth consideration whether, under very exceptional and rare conditions, there is thus developed in women any erratic manifestation of the power a mother sometimes has, of marking the body of her unborn child.
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