Every one began to talk about the prospect of the day's sport.

Dominey helped himself from the sideboard and took his place at the table.
"I hope," he said, "that our very latest thing in ghosts did not disturb anybody." "We all seem to have heard the same thing," the Cabinet Minister observed, with interest,--"a most appalling and unearthly cry.

I have lately joined every society connected with spooks and find them a fascinating study." "If you want to investigate," Dominey observed, as he helped himself to coffee, "you can bring out a revolver and prowl about with me one night.
From the time when I was a kid, before I went to Eton, up till when I left here for Africa, we had a series of highly respectable and well-behaved ghosts, who were a credit to the family and of whom we were somewhat proud.

This latest spook, however, is something quite outside the pale." "Has he a history ?" Mr.Watson asked with interest.
"I am informed," Dominey replied, "that he is the spirit of a schoolmaster who once lived here, and for whose departure from the world I am supposed to be responsible.

Such a spook is neither a credit nor a comfort to the family." Their host spoke with such an absolute absence of emotion that every one was conscious of a curious reluctance to abandon a subject full of such fascinating possibilities.