And then--the first night I was in the house the ghost appeared!" She was shivering now, and, almost unwillingly, he put his arm round her again.

"Rot!" he exclaimed.

"Don't let yourself think such things, Bubbles--" "I know you don't believe it, Bill, but I _have_ got the power of raising Them." "I don't know whether I believe it or not," he said slowly.

"And I--I sometimes wonder if _you_ believe it, Bubbles, or if you're only pretending ?" There was a pause.

And then Bubbles said in a strange tone: "'Tisn't a question of believing it now, Bill.