On the other hand, it did lend itself, perhaps unconsciously, to one scientific experiment.

The story is unromantic; the names are fictitious.

{198b} Bognor House, an eligible family residence near a large town, was built in 1860, and occupied, till his death in 1876, by Mr.S.He was twice married, and was not of temperate ways.

His second wife adopted his habits, left him shortly before his death, and died at Clifton in 1878.

The pair used to quarrel about some jewels which Mr.S.
concealed in the flooring of a room where the ghost was never seen.
A Mr L.now took the house, but died six months later.