"I, should think that I saw the ghosts of dead and gone players sitting round the table.

I remember reading a story about that once." "Well, what about the other things ?" said Mr.Tredgold.

"Look at those old chairs, full of ghosts sitting piled up in each other's laps--there's no reason why you should only see one sitter at a time.

Think of that beautifully-carved four-poster." "My uncle bought that," said Miss Drewitt, somewhat irrelevantly.
"Yes, but I got it for him," said Mr.Tredgold.

"You can't pick up a thing like that at a moment's notice--I had my eye on it for years; all the time old Brown was bedridden, in fact.