James D. Hague 



cussion amonor truth-seekers in the 

 field of psychical research, in all of 

 which Mr. Cutter was deeply inter- 

 ested. On the occasion of his rail- 

 way disaster, as he reached dry land, 

 walking from the shore-end of the 

 trestle along the railway line, he pres- 

 ently met, near the door of their cot- 

 tage, two ladies, who insisted on 

 giving him aid and comfort. They 

 bound up his bleeding wounds with 

 such solicitude that Mr. Cutter could 

 not do less than return, a few days 

 later, to make his grateful acknowl- 

 edgments, on which occasion he was 

 surprised and pleased to find that the 

 elder lady was the daughter of the 

 artist who had painted the mysterious 

 portrait and who had thereafter re- 

 lated the "wonderful ghost story" to 

 Charles Dickens, who printed it in 

 his magazine. The lady herself had 

 somehow participated in at least one 

 incident of the story, when she with 



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