“There!” said Uncle Cornie, folding up the letter.
“Do you think the ghost had anything to do with it, uncle?” asked Kate, almost under her breath.
“How should I know, my dear? Possibly.”
“It’s very sad,” said Janet; “but I don’t see the good of it all. If the ghost had come to tell that she had hidden away money in some secret place in the old bureau, one would see why she had been permitted to come back. But what was the good of those accounts after they were over and done with? I don’t believe in the ghost.”
“Ah, Janet, Janet! but those wretched accounts were not over and done with, you see. That is the misery of it.”
Uncle Cornelius rose without another word, bade them good-night, and walked out into the wind.