And--it is not my business to intrude.

Yet I have guessed.

I have my own conviction.

It is terrible." He spoke in a low voice, looking straight at David.
"And that conviction, Father ?" David barely whispered.
"Tavish is afraid of some one who is _dead_." "Dead!" "Yes, a woman--or a girl--who is dead; dead in the flesh, but living in the spirit to haunt him.

It is that.