The ship was never heard of, and to the day of Billy Jacobs's death he never forgave his wife.

In his heart he looked upon her as his brother's murderer.

Very much like the perpetual presence of a ghost under her roof it must have been to the woman also, the unbroken silence of those untenanted rooms, and that never opened door on the left side of her hall, which she must pass whenever she went in or out of her house.

There were those who said that she was never seen to look towards that door; and that whenever a noise, as of a rat in the wall, or a blind creaking in the wind, came from that side of the house, Mrs.Billy turned white, and shuddered.

Well she might.