Excerpt from Sketches of a Sea Port Town, Vol. 3 of 3 But the lapse of time had gradually worn them away, and they had been almost forgotten, till refreshed in all their ancient force by that mysterious warning, which might after all, be only a joke. And yet there were many mi nute circumstances which, singly, were of no value, and might be accounted for as the effect of imagination - but which, in conjunction with each other, must favour the notion, that Co lonel Levison was yet alive, or be ascribed at once to supernatural influence. The shadow at Mrs. Arnold's ball, the disturbances at Dale Hall, (which had been a favourite scene of his pranks and debaucheries)-though every pains to explain these away, and to discover their cause had proved ineffectual, - still it was possi ble that Isabella's correspondent might pos sess some clue for the perfect unravelling of the mystery. Yet Temple was aware that it would be a wearisome and uncertain pursuit, to attempt to discover who this correspondent might be, in a place so wide as our town, and that it would only expose his own suspicions more fully to the person or persons, whose in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.