Are you unwell ?" "No, ma'am," he replied, "I cannot say that I am.

But, by the way, have you not a haunted house in the neighborhood, and is there not an apparition called the Black Man, or the Black Spectre, seen occasionally about the premises ?" "So it is said," replied Lindsay, "but none of this family has ever seen it, although I believe it has undoubtedly been seen by many persons in the neighborhood." "What is supposed to have been the cause of its appearance ?" asked Harry.
"Faith, Harry," replied his brother, "I fear there is nobody here can give you that information.

To speak for myself, I never heard its appearance accounted for at all.

Perhaps Barney Casey knows.

Do you, father ?" "Not I," replied his father; "but as you say, Charley, we had better try Barney.