She told him he had to, and he promised.

And she left the front door open fur him night after night fur nigh a year, in all kinds of weather; but Primrose never come.

Mis' Primrose says he never lied to her, and he always done jest as she told him, and if he could of come she knowed he would; and when he didn't she quit believing in ghosts.

But they was others in our town said it didn't prove nothing at all.

They said Primrose had really been lying to her all his life, because she was so bossy he had to lie to keep peace in the fambly, and she never ketched on.