"Why, I've worn mourning for you, my boy.

This is a bit of sharp practice.

Where did you spring from ?" "Perhaps I'm a ghost, after all.

So many people have told me lately I'm dead, that I begin to believe it." "Never fear.

If you were a ghost we should be able to see through you-- that's more than anybody ever did with Halgrove, eh, Rimbolt ?" "Halgrove is coming home with us," said Mr Rimbolt, "so when you and Raby come to-morrow we can talk over old times." "Who would have thought of him turning up ?" said the colonel to his daughter as with Percy they drove off in their cab.