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Finally the ghost urged Taverner to bring the case into Court, and it came up for trial at Carrickfergus.

Mr. Taverner asked the spectre rider number three (for in reality the three riders were apparitions) why he appeared to him.

She was using it now to Lady Taverner, to whom she always told things in confidence when she wanted them repeated.

Taverner's Bible, a less extreme example of the same tendency, seemingly had no influence on later renderings.