Gillespie (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from GillespieClare tae Goad, said Campbell, I thought it was the dagger o' the sign above the door. A cold grue went doon my back. The slain man, one-eyed, with a broad black beard, was a Jew. His pockets had been ri¿ed. The hue and cry was raised, but the tall, swarthy fellow had vanished even more completely than the dead man, where he lay nameless in the south-west corner' of the graveyard.Fear fell upon the inn. It was named the Ghost. The painted dagger seemed to grate aloft when the wind blew. Campbell took to drink, and used to wander through the house at night, candle in hand. His wife became worn, watching him, and, always ailing, died within the year on child-bed. It came to this at last that her husband sat in the bar all day drinking with every wastrel, and too sodden at nightfall to make a reckoning. He roved the rooms, shouting with terrible blasphemy on a concealed left-handed devil to come out and show him self. Fishermen sailing past said that they saw lights dancing about the rigging of the Ghost in the grey of dawn. Soon all the bottles in the bar were emptied. Campbell's comrades from the town dropped off, and the scavengers who remained held the pewter measure be neath the tap as Campbell tilted up each barrel in turn. Of all that he had done, of all that had happened to him in his downfall and degradation, this was the most pitiable.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.