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                         THE UNLUCKY THEATRE - 6                             
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The curtain dropped. In a few moments it rose again, and Fernaghan was       
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shocked to see a row of skeletons in the clothes they had probably worn in   
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the play. The musicians and the audience were all skeletons and as they ap-  
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plauded with their bony hands, the actors smiled and bowed and then threw    
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back their heads and burst with devilish laughter. The curtain fell, and the 
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theatre was once again in darkness.                                          
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   Fernaghan couldn't bear any more. He hurried out to the street.           
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   Peter Lindsey listened to Fernaghan's account of his ghostly experiences  
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in The Mohawk with great interest, and told him that they might have been    
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the result of an unfortunate happening in the theatre in 1803, of which he   
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had once heard a story.                                                      
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   A play called 'The Watching Eyes' was being performed at The Cascade, as  
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The Mohawk was then named. Two leading actors were in it, Guy Lang and       
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Raymond Ross. Ross was known to be very much in love with Mrs Lang. She      
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encouraged him and repeatedly told him that she hated her husband, who       
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treated her badly.                                                           
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   In the play there was a fight between Lang and Ross, and one night Ross   
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killed Lang. The stage swords always had rubber buttons on their points, so  
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that no one would be hurt, but then the sword used by Ross had no button.    
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