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turn the corner, and you will find a man sweep- ing; ask him, and he will tell you how to get in. She then made another graceful wave with her right hand; and thanking her with a bow I went in the direction indicated, where sure enough I did find a man sweeping up all the débris of the passage.”
This man directed her to a little house, where she found an old man, who, on being told what she wanted, replied—
“Come along, then,” and led me back to the door in the passage where I had stood before; but the figure of the queen was no longer where she had been, when we passed the square covered place. She had vanished —but the old man began talking about her, and said, ‘Queen Katherine is often about here, but we take no notice of her, she does usnoharm.’ He let me then into the chapel.”
The distinctive feature of both stories is the same, but the Hampton Court story carries it a step further than “ An Adventure.” For the correspondent of the Occult Review did not merely obtain information which was within the content of Queen Katherine’s mind in the sixteenth century, but received from the appa- rition of Queen Katherine up-to-date informa- tion, which enabled the visitor to whom she
turn the corner, and you will find a man sweep- ing; ask him, and he will tell you how to get in. She then made another graceful wave with her right hand; and thanking her with a bow I went in the direction indicated, where sure enough I did find a man sweeping up all the débris of the passage.”
This man directed her to a little house, where she found an old man, who, on being told what she wanted, replied—
“Come along, then,” and led me back to the door in the passage where I had stood before; but the figure of the queen was no longer where she had been, when we passed the square covered place. She had vanished —but the old man began talking about her, and said, ‘Queen Katherine is often about here, but we take no notice of her, she does usnoharm.’ He let me then into the chapel.”
The distinctive feature of both stories is the same, but the Hampton Court story carries it a step further than “ An Adventure.” For the correspondent of the Occult Review did not merely obtain information which was within the content of Queen Katherine’s mind in the sixteenth century, but received from the appa- rition of Queen Katherine up-to-date informa- tion, which enabled the visitor to whom she
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