SOURCE: "A School Story" by M. R. James  (More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911)

DESCRIPTION: "Well, the top paper on the desk was written in red ink--which no one used--and it wasn't in anyone's hand who was in the class. They all looked at it--McLeod and all--and took their dying oaths that it wasn't theirs. Then I thought of counting the bits of paper. And of this I made quite certain: that there were seventeen bits of paper on the desk, and sixteen boys in the form. Well, I bagged the extra paper, and kept it, and I believe I have it now. And now you will want to know what was written on it. It was simple enough, and harmless enough, I should have said.'Si tu non veneris ad me, ego veniam ad te,' which means, I suppose, 'If you don't come to me, I'll come to you.'" ("A School Story" by M. R. James)

NOTES: Sampson, a Latin teacher, is haunted by the ghost of the man he murdered and put in a well. The ghost sends him warnings in Latin and eventually comes for him. Sampson is never seen again.

HISTORY: Not James's best story but he does have some fun in the opening by listing all the chestnuts of his genre and take a shot at two magazines of the day. "Yes; the crop is rather scanty, though. I imagine, if you were to investigate the cycle of ghost stories, for instance, which the boys at private schools tell each other, they would all turn out to be highly-compressed versions of stories out of books."/"Nowadays the Strand and Pearson's, and so on, would be extensively drawn upon."