He is the ghost who frightened Margery and Agnes Darling; he is the man you saw with Kate last in the grounds.

He clings to her as he clings to no one else.
The only comfort left him in this lower world are these nightly walks with her.

She is the bravest, the best, the noblest of girls; she leaves her warm room, her bed, for those cold midnight walks with that unhappy and suffering man." Once again a pause.

Reginald Stanford looked at Captain Danton's pale, agitated face.
"You have told me a terrible story," he said.

"I can hardly blame this man for what he has done; but what claim has he on you that you should feel for him and screen him as you do?
What claim has he on my future wife that she should take these nightly walks with him unknown to me ?" "The strongest claim that man can have," was the answer; "he is my son--he is Kate's only brother!" "My God! Captain Danton, what are you saying ?" "The truth," Captain Danton answered, in a broken voice.