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One 'luckless evening' on the road near his former residence on the banks of the Nepean River, the ghost of Jack Bowles shows his anger over his disputed will to the executor, John Proctor.
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Epigraph: 'At first he hears the wind, with hollow roar,/ Shake the loose lock, and swing the creaking door;/ Nearer and nearer draws the dreadful sound/ Of rattling chains, that dragg'd upon the ground;/ When lo! the spectre came with horrid stride,/ To stay, with dread, his late nocturnal ride.'- Gay
'Confounded at the sight his spirits fled-/ His eyes rain'd tears-his very heart was dead.'- Armstrong
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- Penrith area, Sydney Outer West, Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1837
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