Well, the next night that negro tells his story.

What am I to make of it ?" "Can't tell you," answered Mr.Champers-Haswell with a groan.

"All I know is that it nearly made a corpse of me.

I am not like you, Aylward, I was brought up as an Evangelical, and although I haven't given much thought to these matters of late years--well, we don't shake them off in a hurry.

I daresay there is something somewhere, and when the black man was speaking, that something seemed uncommonly near.