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<h2 class="main">STRANGELY STRICKEN DEAD</h2></div>
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<p class="par first">There was once a man called Kim Tok-saing, a
soldier of fortune, who had been specially honoured at the Court of
Tai-jong. He had several times been generalissimo of the army, and on
his various campaigns had had an intimate friend accompany him, a
friend whom he greatly loved. But Kim had been dead now for some ten
years and more, when one night this friend of his was awakened with a
start and gave a great outcry. He slept again, but a little later was
disturbed once more by a fright, at which he called out. His wife, not
liking this, inquired as to what he meant. The friend said, “I
have just seen General Kim riding on a white horse, with bow and arrows
at his belt. He called to me and said, ‘A thief has just entered
my home, and I have come to shoot him dead.’ He went and again
returned, and as he drew an arrow from his quiver, I saw that there
were blood marks on it. He said, ‘I have just shot him, he is
dead.’” The husband and wife in fear and wonder talked over
it together. <span class="pagenum">[<SPAN name="xd21e3132" href="#xd21e3132"
name="xd21e3132">228</SPAN>]</span></p>
<p class="par">When morning came the friend went to General Kim’s
former home to make inquiry. He learned that that very night
Kim’s young widow had decided to remarry, but as soon as the
chosen <i>fiancé</i> had entered her home, a terrible pain shot
him through, and before morning came he died in great agony.</p>
<p class="par signed"><span class="sc">Yi Ryuk.</span> <span class="pagenum">[<SPAN name="xd21e3142" href="#xd21e3142" name=
"xd21e3142">229</SPAN>]</span></p>
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