The Gipsy by Agatha Christie

Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 17824654
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

“There’s a lady to see you, sir.”

“Eh?” Macfarlane looked at the landlady abstractedly. “Oh! I beg your pardon, Mrs. Rowse, I’ve been seeing ghosts.”

“Not really, sir? There’s queer things to be seen on the moor after nightfall, I know. There’s the white lady, and the Devil’s blacksmith, and the sailor and the gipsy—”

“What’s that? A sailor and a gipsy?”

“So they say, sir. It was quite a tale in my young days. Crossed in love they were, a while back . . . But they’ve not walked for many a long day now.”

“No? I wonder if perhaps—they will again now. . . .”

“Lor! sir, what things you do say! About that young lady—”

“What young lady?”

“The one that’s waiting to see you. She’s in the parlour. Miss Lawes, she said her name was.”

“Oh!”

Rachel! He felt a curious feeling of contraction, a shifting of perspective. He had been peeping through at another world. He had forgotten Rachel, for Rachel belonged to this life only . . . Again that curious shifting of perspective, that slipping back to a world of three dimensions only.

He opened the parlour door. Rachel—with her honest brown eyes. And suddenly, like a man awakening from a dream, a warm rush of glad reality swept over him. He was alive—alive! He thought: “There’s only one life one can be sure about! This one!”

“Rachel!” he said, and, lifting her chin, he kissed her lips.

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