"You may tell it to us some other time." "But this is a really interesting story," insisted Frank.

"You see, the fellow shot himself three times, and when he did not die quickly enough to be suited, he cut his throat from ear to ear, and his specter was a most ghastly-appearing object, bleeding from the bullet wounds and having a gash across its throat from----" "Say, will you let up!" gasped Harris.

"If you don't, I'll get out!" "Oh, I don't want to break up this jolly gathering," said Frank, his eyes twinkling, "but I was just going to tell how the ghost----" "Cheese it!" interrupted Sam Winslow.

"Talk about something besides ghosts, will you?
You are not given to dwelling on such unpleasant subjects, Merriwell." "But I thought you fellows didn't take any stock in ghosts ?" "We don't," grinned Harvey Dare; "and that's just why we don't want to hear about 'em." "We've got something else to do besides listen to yarns," said Harris.
"Let's proceed to gorge." And he began opening the box that sat on the table..