18/43 The pull was soon forgotten; the sixpence lived on gratefully in a child's warm memory. We won't interrupt you unless you put in too many inventions.' 'You invite me to break the first law of storytelling, Miss Rose,' said the doctor, lifting a finger at her. 'Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it. However, I couldn't tell it if I would. But at any rate there is a ghost, and she walks along the side of High Fell at midnight every Midsummer day. |