As soon as it's light I'll have a look at the spring-hole." "Terry," I said disgustedly, "that may make a very picturesque newspaper story, but it doesn't help much in unravelling the mystery." "It helps a good deal.

I would not like to swear to the flames or sulphur or the passage down to hell, but the fact that he was tall and black and comes from the spring-hole is significant.

He was black--mark that--so were the stolen lap robes.
"Now you see how the matter stands on the night of the robbery.

While ghost number one was out driving with Radnor, ghost number two entered the house through the open library window, found the safe ajar and helped himself.

Let's consider what he took--five thousand dollars in government bonds, two deeds, an insurance policy, and a quart of small change--a very suggestive lot of loot if you think about it enough.
After the robbery he disappeared, nothing seen of him for five or six days; then he turned up again for a day or so, and finally disappeared forever.