She's had visions
and dreams, and all those sort of things, that have come true in a most
marvellous manner, but she's never actually seen a ghost, and she's
longing to have that experience. She belongs to that Research Society,
you know."
"I expect she'll see the unhappy Lady Cullumpton, the most famous of all
the Exwood ghosts," said Mrs. Dole; "my ancestor, you know, Sir Gervase
Cullumpton, murdered his young bride in a fit of jealousy while they were
on a visit to Exwood. He strangled her in the stables with a stirrup
leather, just after they had come in from riding, and she is seen
sometimes at dusk going about the lawns and the stable yard, in a long
green habit, moaning and trying to get the thong from round her throat. I
shall be most interested to hear if your friend sees--"
"I don't know why she should be expected to see a trashy, traditional
apparition like the so-called Cullumpton ghost, that is only vouched for
by housemaids and tipsy stable-boys, when my uncle, who was the owner of
Exwood, committed suicide there under the most tragical circumstances,
and most certainly haunts the place."
"Mrs. Hatch-Mallard has evidently never read _Popple's County History_,"
said Mrs.
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