Underwood frequented somewhere near to where he worked in Covent Garden in London:
“...a small coffee-house in Goodwin’s Court, off St Martin’s Lane…”
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“…it was there, it would seem, that my ghost was seen on one occasion!”
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Goodwin’s Court
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The journey from Aldine House to Goodwin’s Court.
“I used to pop in for coffee most mornings, and the entry was up a few steps and past the proprietor…”
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Goodwin’s Court is walking distance from the publishers office at Aldine House, on the corner of Bedford Street and Chandos Street.
“…a moment after I had sat down he would bring me a cup of steaming hot black coffee.”
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On this occasion, I thought the proprietor looked at me rather strangely…
‘Did you come in earlier this morning, sir?’ ”
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“I said,
‘No, of course not, why?’
‘Funny,’ he replied.
‘I saw you quite distinctly, but you were wearing a different suit…’
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‘…you nodded and smiled to me like you always do as you passed…’
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‘…and a moment later I brought in your black coffee,
but no one was here and you know there is no other way out…'
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“On occasions people are seen after they have been pronounced dead…”
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“But ghosts of living people?
How can that be?
These present a real problem for the psychic researcher…”
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“It does seem that certain people, under certain conditions not yet established, are indeed seen in one place,
when they are indisputably in another place altogether…”
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