THE HALL GHOST Perhaps some of my readers may think I was doing wrong in determining to listen to the proposed conference between Miss Staggles and Voltaire.

I do not offer any excuse, however.

I felt that if this man was to be fought, it must be by his own weapons; such, at any rate, as I could use.

I remembered the terrible influence he had exercised over me, the power of which might not yet be broken.

I remembered Miss Forrest too.
Evidently this man was a villain, and wanted to make her his wife.