Marginalias #3

Men who have actually seen Marginalia seldom describe them the same way. A rifleman from the 19th Company swore that a tiny figure followed his platoon for six days, always keeping exactly twenty paces behind the last man. It wore something resembling a priest's vestments and carried a lantern no larger than a walnut. Nobody dared approach it. On the seventh morning the creature was gone, and they found the lantern standing beside the boots of a soldier who had died during the night. The riflem…

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