Suppose a man died with the dearest wish of his heart unfulfilled, do you believe that his spirit might have power to return to earth and complete the interrupted work ?" "Well," answered MacShaughnassy, "if one admits the possibility of spirits retaining any interest in the affairs of this world at all, it is certainly more reasonable to imagine them engaged upon a task such as you suggest, than to believe that they occupy themselves with the performance of mere drawing-room tricks.

But what are you leading up to ?" "Why, to this," replied Jephson, seating himself straddle-legged across his chair, and leaning his arms upon the back.

"I was told a story this morning at the hospital by an old French doctor.

The actual facts are few and simple; all that is known can be read in the Paris police records of sixty-two years ago.
"The most important part of the case, however, is the part that is not known, and that never will be known.
"The story begins with a great wrong done by one man unto another man.
What the wrong was I do not know.

I am inclined to think, however, it was connected with a woman.