Immediately after his death, before the sister heard the news, the brother's ghost appeared in a dream, or vision, to the sister, and warned her in solemn tones against ever marrying a second time.

The spirit does not appear to have given any reasons, but his manner was so impressive and so unmistakable that the lady had thus far regarded it as an injunction never to be disobeyed.

On hearing this remarkable story, the young man, George, argues impatiently against the trustworthiness of dreams, and is hardly silenced by the widow showing him on her wrist the mark still remaining where the spirit had seized and pressed her hand.

In fine, the impassioned suitor prevails over these superstitious terrors, as he reckons them, of the lady--and they become man and wife.
The reader is here placed in a condition of great perplexity, and his curiosity becomes breathless.

The sequel is melancholy indeed.