Sabine Baring-Gould

Name: Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events — The White House
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould

Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events… (1900)

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“Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events — The White House”, published in 1900, is a work by Sabine Baring-Gould. It explores elements such as the White House, Fletcher and Mark Dunn.

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Sabine Baring-Gould, Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events… (1900)

“ More than once she interfered and rebuked Ralph, her brother, warning him of the dangerous consequences of thus encouraging the attachment of a woman now bound to another man by the most sacred ties. With an oath he bade her mind her own business, and not interfere with him.
Fletcher could not but be aware that his wife did not love him; whispers reached him that she met her old sweetheart when he was from home; that her nag was seen standing an unreasonable time outside the door of the White House. He caught Mark Dunn one evening prowling in his orchard, and he fell on him with a stick. ”

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Sabine Baring-Gould, Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events… (1900)

“ Fletcher ambled on her nag into Easingwold, she invariably halted at the White House, when the hostler, one Mark Dunn, a beetle-browed, uncouth fellow from Huby, received and held her horse as she dismounted and entered the inn. Ralph, the host, was always there, and received Mrs. Fletcher with an affection which dissatisfied his sister, a woman of sense, who saw that this cherishing of an old passion could lead to no good. ”

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Sabine Baring-Gould, Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events… (1900)

“ As he crossed Thornton Bridge he closed his eyes, but when he opened them again he saw the well-known figure of the dead man walking before him so fast that his horse could not catch him up. The ghost trailed the sack after it, and left a luminous track on the road. When it reached a point at a little distance from the White House—the very spot where Raynard, Mrs. Fletcher, and Mark Dunn had turned aside with the body—the spectre strode across the heather, leaped the low hedge, and melted, apparently, into the ground, where now a rich, green crop of mustard was growing. ”

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Sabine Baring-Gould, Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events… (1900)

“ He went to one of the stalls to buy some trinket—a chain of imitation coral beads. "How does it look on the neck?" he asked, extending it to the keeper of the stall. Then he looked up and saw a ghastly figure opposite—the dead man with the coral round his neck, knotted under his ear, and his head on one side, the eyes wide open, with a blaze in the eyes, and heard him say: "How like you a red streak round the neck such as this? I will put one round the throat of my wife; and you shall wear one too!"
Sick and faint, he hastened back to the inn, and called for beer. ”

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Sabine Baring-Gould, Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events… (1900)

“ At the same time a yeoman named Fletcher, living at Moor House, in the parish of Raskelfe, had cast his eyes on the comely young woman, and he took advantage of the rupture between the lovers to step in and offer his hand to the damsel. He was at once accepted, in a fit of resentment against Ralph Raynard, and the marriage rapidly followed; so that she soon found herself the wife of a man whom she did not love, and some miles nearer the White House, where lived Ralph, whom she did love, than when she had resided at Thornton Bridge. ”

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Sabine Baring-Gould, Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events… (1900)

“ In the White House lived a man called Ralph Raynard, and his sister. Ralph paid his addresses to a fine-looking young woman, dark-eyed, dark-haired, who lived at Thornton Bridge, at the Red House, where the road from Brafferton or Tollerton crossed the Ouse to Topcliffe and Ripon. ”

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Sabine Baring-Gould, Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events… (1900)

“ Fletcher mounted her horse and rode to the White House. She asked to see Raynard, and he walked by her side some way back to Raskelfe. There they parted; and Raynard was next observed in close conversation with his hostler, Mark Dunn.
It was May-Day. In the sweet spring evening Fletcher was returning on foot from Easingwold, when he came to Daunay Bridge, where at that time a road branched off from the highway from the North to York, and traversing the Lund, led to Raskelfe. As he crossed the bridge he stood still for a moment, and looked up at the stars, just appearing. ”

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Sabine Baring-Gould, Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events… (1900)

“ In the daylight without he recovered composure, and endeavoured to believe that he had been a victim to delusion. He thought he must buy some present for the woman, love for whom had led him to the commission of murder. ”

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