The Signalman by Charles Dickens

Perhaps this was a spirit, not a man!
Suddenly I heard a voice cry, ''Hello! You down there!''. I jumped up and looked out from that door.’

‘What did you see?’

‘A man standing by the red light near the tunnel. His left arm was across his face but his right arm was being waved. This way.’

He moved his own left arm to show me. ‘‘Look out!" the man was calling. "Hello! You down there! Look out!"'

Is there really a ghost on that lonely railway line? What is he trying to tell the signalman? And why does his hand cover his face?


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