“Ah!” he exclaimed, “did you see any ghosts?”
“One.”
“And what did you do to it?”
“Shot at it.”
“And then?”
“It walked away.”
“And you allowed yourself to be baffled?”
“Good! How well you know me! I followed it, and fired again. But as he knew his way among the ruins better than I, he escaped me.”
“The devil!”
“The next day it was Sir John’s turn; I mean our Englishman.”