MOTHER MEGGES AND THE GHOST Flounder Megges, with all the paraphernalia of her trade, was established as nurse to Cicely at the Nunnery.

This establishment, it is true, had not been easy since Emlyn, who knew something of the woman's repute, and suspected more, resisted it with all her strength, but here the Prioress intervened in her gentle way.

She herself, she explained, did not like this person, who looked so odd, drank so much beer and talked so fast.

Yet she had made inquiries and found that she was extraordinarily skilled in matters of that nature.

Indeed, it was said that she had succeeded in cases that were wonderfully difficult which the leech had abandoned as hopeless, though of course there had been other cases where she had not succeeded.