"
"Very good," replied Dr. F. "Now will you believe me if I tell you still
more wonderful things which I myself have witnessed; and will you give
me credit for being a perfectly reliable witness? I only ask you to
believe; I, myself, cannot explain."
"My dear Doctor," I replied, "I shall receive anything you tell me with
great respect, for you are a most unlikely subject to ever be the victim
of a delusion."
At this the Doctor laughed and said: "Here goes, once and for ever, my
reputation for practical common-sense; henceforth, I suppose, you will
class me with musicians generally, who I know bear a character for
eccentricity. I will tell the tale, however, and you shall see I possess
proofs of its being no delusion, and can contradict your assertion that
ghosts never leave behind them traces of their presence.
"I put the old manuscript aside, intending, at some future time, to have
the Credo sung as a fragment. It would have been presumption on my part
to have completed the Service, so I left it, and being much occupied,
forgot all about it. Just about this time we decided to do away with
manual labour in blowing the organ, and substituted a small hydraulic
engine. I mention this because it has a bearing on what follows.
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