Heard anything ?" "Not a thing." "I didn't suppose you had, or I should have heard it, too." "It will probably not reappear to-night." "Well, I'm not in love with ghosts, but I have been wild to have the thing pass along that walk again.

It wouldn't get away from me this time! I've planned just what to do." "What ?" "I can reach that walk in three jumps from this window, and it would take a lively ghost to get away from me.

I was going right out there the first glimpse I got of it." "Then you're not afraid of ghosts ?" laughed Frank, for there was something amusing in his companion's manner.
"I might be, Merry, if there were any.

But I've been thinking as I sat here.

I know I saw something, and that something was a man.