It is said to be haunted." This appealed to Frank's love of the sensational.

Besides that, he fancied he saw an opportunity for some sport that was not down in the programme, and he smiled a bit.
"Of course it isn't haunted," he said.

"I don't believe there is a fellow here who believes in ghosts ?" "I don't." "Nor I." "Nor I." "Such stuff is rot!" "I don't believe in anything I can't see." Thus the assembled lads expressed themselves, and Frank smiled again.
"While I do not believe this room is haunted," he said, "I once had a rather blood-curdling experience with something like a disembodied spirit--an adventure that came near turning my hair snowy white from fright and horror.

I will tell you about it.

The original of my ghost happened to be a fellow who committed suicide, and he----" "Say, hold on!" gurgled Wat Snell, who had declared that believing in ghosts was "all rot." "What are we here for--to listen to ghost stories or to have a little picnic ?" "Oh, drop your ghost yam," said George Harris, who had asserted that he did not believe in anything he could not see.