“There is.”
“I should think, by the spectre’s coming here, that it has abandoned it.”
“Of course it has, or it would not be here.”
“What can you imagine to have been the cause of its coming?”
“Probably to announce its intention, and request my friend to have the treasure sent for; but you know it was interrupted.”
“Very true; but it called your friend Vanderdecken.”
“It was the name which he took on board of the ship.”
“And it was the name of the lady.”
“Very true. He fell in with her at the Cape of Good Hope, and brought her away with him.”
“Then she is his wife?”