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Read the excerpt from "The Phantom Rickshaw."
(10) In my room I sat down and tried calmly to reason out the matter. Here was I, Theobald Jack
Pansay, a well-educated Bengal Civilian in the year of grace 1885, presumably sane, certainly
healthy, driven in terror from my sweetheart's side by the apparition of a woman who had been dead
and buried eight months ago. These were facts that I could not blink. Nothing was further from my
thought than any memory of Mrs. Wessington when Kitty and I left Hamilton's shop. Nothing was
more utterly commonplace than the stretch of wall opposite Peliti's. It was broad daylight. The road
was full of people; and yet here, look you, in defiance of every law of probability, in direct outrage of
Nature's ordinance, there had appeared to me a face from the grave.
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