7 MARCH 1925, Page 16

THE EXETER THEATRE FIRE

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sun,--T wonder if any of your readers could tell me where to find a short story which I read some twenty years ago in one of the monthly magazines, about the driver of the night express through Exeter seeing the burning theatre. All I remember of it is that he knew his wife was at the theatre that night, but he had to take the train on, and as he watched the flames he saw her spirit like a white meth rising from the fire. - I am collecting notes of all sorts for the appreaching Railway Centenary, and do not regard the literary and artistic as negligible, though they are scarce.—I am, Sir, &c.