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 through it just at the very hour of one, Mr Carew repaired thither a little before the time, and stripping in his shirt, lay down upon the gentlemen’s grave. Soon after, hearing the bellman approach he raised himself up with a solemn slowness, which the bellman beholding, by the glimmerings of the moon through a dark cloud, was terribly frightened, so took to his heels and ran away. In his flight he looked behind him and seeing the ghost following him, dropped his bell, and ran the faster, which Carew seized on as a trophy, and forebore any further pursuit. The bellman did not stop till he reached home, where he obstinately affirmed he had seen the gentleman’s ghost, who had taken away the bell, which greatly alarmed the whole town.

Coming to the seat of ’squire Rhodes, in Devonshire, and knowing he had lately married a Dorsetshire lady, he thought proper to become a Dorsetshire man, of Lyme, the place of the lady's nativity, and meeting the ’squire and his bride, he gave them to understand that he was lost a vessel belonging to Lyme Captain Courtney, commander. The ’squire and his lady gave him half a