I think she only perceived each image in the mind of the person to whom she was speaking." "I suppose," asked Helen hesitatingly, "that you haven't the slightest belief in ghosts, Miss Farrow ?" "No, I haven't the slightest belief in ghosts," Blanche smiled.

"But I do believe that if a person thinks sufficiently hard about it, he or she can almost evolve the figure of a ghost.

I think that's what happened to my maid the other night.

Pegler's a most sensible person, yet she's quite convinced that she saw the ghost of the woman who is believed to have killed her little stepson in the room next to that in which I am now sleeping." And then as she saw a rather peculiar look flit over her companion's face, she added quickly: "D'you think that you have seen anything since you've been here, Miss Brabazon ?" Helen hesitated.

"No," she said.