The men sat with dilated eyes for an instant, and then Hal Purvis cried, "I heard it, chief! If it's a ghost, it's hauntin' me too!" Silent cursed loudly in his relief.
"It ain't a ghost.

It's Whistlin' Dan himself.

An' Terry Jordan has been carryin' us lies! What in hell do you mean by it ?" "I ain't been carryin' you lies," said Jordan, hotly.

"I told you what I heard.

I didn't never say that there was any one seen his dead body!" The whistling began to die out.