The Ghost in the Club Chair

Hone printed a ghost story from a town in the west of England, where a club of twenty-four met weekly to drink punch, smoke and talk politics, each member in his own chair. One night, while a member lay dying in the next house, the door opened at midnight and his figure in white walked in, sat silently in his chair for a time and went out again, and he was found to have died at about that hour. Attested by so many witnesses, the story spread over the country and was generally believed. Years later his nurse confessed on her own deathbed that she had left him alone, and on her return had found him coming back shivering, having wandered next door in his delirium.