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28.01.2021 18:47 •  Английский язык

2 Diana comes from a small town in Wales not far from the sea. While she was still at school,
she had a weekend job as a waitress in the café at Redstone Castle, the home of old Sir Clarence.
tells everybody how expensive life in an old castle is for him. But I think he's just a mean old
His relatives built the castle centuries ago. "I didn't earn much," she says. "Sir Clarence always
man. He always wore an awful old school scarf that he had!"
sure the guides weren't very good," laughs Diana, "because tourists often asked me questions
about the castle. 'Is there a dungeon?' (Yes.) 'Is there a ghost?' (No.)" After she left school, Diana
became an official guide at Redstone Castle and took tourists round the rooms herself.
One afternoon she was with a group of tourists in the Great Hall. Suddenly there was a loud
shout from the back of the group. Diana went to see what had happened. A woman was lying on
the floor. She looked scared. The only words she could say were: "A ghost!"
Diana was just getting her mobile out to call for help when there was more bad news for her:
The woman's son was missing. Where was he? Some of the tourists had their own ideas.
“He's gone to get a doctor."
"The ghost has taken him away!"
The situation was getting difficult. Diana decided to phone Sir Clarence. "He sounded happy
when I told him about the ghost," she remembers. “That surprised me."
A moment later Sir Clarence arrived in the Hall, then the missing boy came back and told
his story: "I saw the ghost, too!" he cried. "It went through that door, so I opened it and tried to
follow it." Then the boy showed everybody an old scarf which he had found on the floor and
which the ghost had lost. Some people laughed, others took photos of the scarf.
Redstone Castle has now become very popular. "The visitors come to see the Redstone
Ghost - that's what they pay for," Sir Clarence says. Diana has her own ideas about the Redstone
Ghost, but she keeps them to herself.​