Don Horacio 



and unruffled his high silk hat, which 

 he most carefully protected at the 

 moment of extreme danger and kept 

 thereafter as an evidence of his im- 

 perturbable equanimity under the 

 most trying circumstances. 



This adventure was also the occa- 

 sion of another noteworthy incident, 

 in which Mr. Cutter seemed pleased 

 to perceive something of psychical 

 mystery, especially in its relation to 

 his favorite ghost story, which he had 

 known by heart since first reading it 

 in All the Year Round, brought out 

 by Charles Dickens in 1861, purport- 

 ing to be the truthful narrative of 

 Thomas Heaphy, a well-known Eng- 

 lish artist, who relates the rare ex- 

 perience of painting a portrait, at 

 least in part, from the visible appari- 

 tion of a young lady who had shortly 

 before departed this life. The facts 

 and incidents of this narrative had 

 long been the subject of much dis- 

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