After a pause, as the carriage drove up to the door, he turned to his host.

"By the way, Woods, have you a ghost here ?" "The house is old enough for one.

But no.

Why ?" "I'll swear I saw a figure moving yonder, in the shrubbery, late last evening; and when I came up to it, it most unaccountably disappeared." "One of Don Caesar's servants, I dare say.

There is one of them, an Indian, prowling about here, I've been told, at all hours.