Poor Vrain showed me over the house before he died.

His candle explains the lights." "They have been seen since his death," said Miss Greeb solemnly.
"Then, as a ghost, Vrain must be walking about with the old woman phantom who wears brocade and high-heeled shoes." Miss Greeb, seeing that she had a sceptic to deal with, retreated with great dignity from the argument, but nevertheless to other people maintained her opinion, with many facts drawn from her imagination and from books on the supernatural compiled from the imagination--or, as the various writers called it--the experience of others.

Some agreed with her, others laughed at her; but one and all acknowledged that, however it came about, whether by ghostly or mortal means, the murder of Vrain was a riddle never likely to be solved; and, with other events of a like nature and mystery, it was relegated to the list of undiscovered crimes.
After several interviews with Link, the barrister was also inclined to take this view of the matter.

He found the detective quite discouraged in his efforts to find the assassin.
"I have been to Bath," said Link dismally.

"I have examined, so far as I was able, into the past life of Vrain, but I can find nothing likely to throw light on the subject.