Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) GHOSTS I HAVE SEEN AND OTHER PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES BY VIOLET TWEEDALE NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS _Copyright, 1919, by_ FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY _All rights reserved_ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I "SILK DRESS" AND "RUMPUS" 1 II THE GHOST OF BROUGHTON HALL 14 III CURIOUS PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES 33 IV EAST END DAYS AND NIGHTS 48 V THE MAN IN THE MARYLEBONE ROAD 66 VI THE GHOST OF PRINCE CHARLIE 74 VII PILGRIMS AND STRANGERS 91 VIII SOME STRANGE EVENTS 98 IX POMPEY AND THE DUCHESS 114 X THE INVISIBLE HANDS 124 XI DAWNS 133 XII PEACOCK'S FEATHERS--THE SKELETON HAND AT MONTE CARLO 146 XIII I COMMIT MURDER 157 XIV THE ANGEL OF LOURDES 175 XV THE WRAITH OF THE ARMY GENTLEMAN 184 XVI AN AUSTRIAN ADVENTURE 197 XVII ACROSS THE THRESHOLD 211 XVIII HAUNTED ROOMS 221 XIX "THE NEW JEANNE D'ARC" 241 XX HAUNTED HOUSES--"CASTEL A MARE" 251 XXI THE SEQUEL 263 XXII THE HAUNTED LODGE 276 XXIII AURAS 291 XXIV ADIEU 307 GHOSTS I HAVE SEEN CHAPTER I "SILK DRESS" AND "RUMPUS" From the terrible conditions of the present I have turned back to the past, for a little joy and a great deliverance. In the present one lives no longer from day to day, but from hour to hour, and even a fleeting memory of the joys that are no more refreshes the soul--wearied, and fainting with a pallid anxiety that wraith-like envelops the whole being in a thrall of sadness.