The Curse Upon Mitre Square — page 66: what you’re looking at

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58 THE CURSE UPON MITRE SQUARE. CHAPTER IV. IN MOORFIELDS. “TIT TOLD ye all about Monk Martin’s ghost.” ‘Yes, Grale. We know about the wicked monk.” ‘Well, master, what think ye happened on the cursed spot not twenty hours ago?” “Tell us, Grale; ye know we all believe the ghost.’’ The old man, with a look of triumph in his weather-beaten face, now got up and said--~ “Ye know about the curse. The man who, with a wicked purpose, or to jeer at the monk, stands upon that spot——”’ “Tut, Grale ; we know about the curse.”’ “Well, masters, ye know Will Railton of the ‘Mitre’? tavern, Aldgate. He asked a dozen gallants from yonder part of town. They came and made merry, and jeered at Martin’s ghost. I warned them not to do it, but ye know the sort of men. Well, in the middle of the storm Will Railton took them to the cursed spot. Ye also know that the man who, with a wicked——’’ ‘““ Hurry on, friend Grale, we know all that.”’ ‘Well, when the storm was at its worst they saw the ghost. They say he struck that ancient arch. -ecomicbooks co m