Item - A Ghost Story

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Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 39 no. 21 — page 8
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXXIX, no. 21, March 31, 1884 (Issue)
Author:	Murray, Lieutenant, 1820-1895 (pseudonym used by Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray), 1820-1895)
Date:	March 31, 1884
First Sentence:	Some twenty years since, while stationed in New Orleans, business called me a short distance inland to the little town of Covington.
Last Sentence:	The writer is by no means of a superstitious nature, but the remarkable coincidence of date, the fact of the murder occurring in that room, the corroborating influence upon the dog, as well as the individual, the fact that the phantom assumed the identity of Madam Lafarge, of whom I had never before heard, altogether form a most inexplicable combination of circumstances.