ENG 510 Chapter Full Text: 14. The Signalman
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Narrator: an intelligent gentleman; the authenticator; reasonable and logical. The signalman: a good and methodical man, at peace with his life; haunted by a ghost that warns of future misfortunes. The ghost/conductor: the spectre of the future actions of the real life man, the conductor, who haunts the signalman. The narrator calls down to the signalman, using the words halloa below there! and he acts very strangely. He calls down again and asks how to get to him. The man finally points him in the right direction and the narrator joins him. The man acts toward him very strangely, wearily. And tells the narrator that he thought he had seen him before, standing by the red light of the train tunnel. The signalman relaxes and takes the narrator into his box and they begin to talk. The narrator realises the signalman is smarter than a man of his station normally is, and the signalman explains that he wasted many opportunities.
