There's nothing to fear here, Miss Saunders; absolutely nothing for you to fear.

I should not have allowed you to remain here a night if there had been.

No ghost will visit you." "No, I hear they never wander above the second story," I laughed.

"If they did I should hardly anticipate the honor of a visit.

It is not ghosts I fear; it is something quite different which affects me,--living eyes, living passions, the old ladies next door," I finished falteringly, for Mrs.Packard was looking at me with a show of startling alarm.