Cathcart.
"But," said Harry, "all that I have related might have taken place; for
the story is not founded on the superstition itself, but on the belief of
the people of the time in the superstition. I have merely used this belief
to give the general tone to the story, and sometimes the particular
occasion for events in it, the vampire being a terrible fact to those
times."
"You write," said the curate, "as if you quoted occasionally from some
authority."
"The story of John Kuntz, as well as that of the shoemaker, is told by
Henry More in his _Antidote against Atheism_. He believed the whole
affair. His authority is Martin Weinrich, a Silesian doctor. I have only
taken the liberty of shifting the scene of the _post-mortem_ exploits of
Kuntz from a town of Silesia to Prague."
"Well, Harry," said his sister-in-law, "if your object was to frighten us,
I confess that I for one was tolerably uncomfortable. But I don't know
that that is a very high aim in story-telling."
"If that were all--certainly not," replied Harry, glancing towards Adela,
who had not spoken.
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