Are you ready ?" Doris stood up.

Hart thrust the negro's head at the detective.
"Fouche," he said, "do you honestly mean slinging your hook without making any inquiry as to Owd Ben ?" "Oh, the ghost!" said Doris eagerly.

"The Bateses would think of him, of course.

An old farmer named Ben Robson used to live in this house about the time of Napoleon.

He was suspected by the authorities to be an agent of the smugglers, and the story goes that his own daughter quarreled with him and betrayed him.