"But he was a ghost, you know."
"Oh, get out! If they saw him there, you can bet that there was somebody there. Some of the miners had their minds all made up to see something, and of course they saw it."
"But how do you account for that 'whiz!' that he uttered every time he struck with his pick?"
"They never heard any 'whiz!' coming from that man; they only imagined it."
"Do you think their ears could be deceived, as well as their eyes?"
"Jack, I am surprised at you. You are big enough and strong enough to whip any ghost that I ever saw, and yet you are afraid to go down in that mine!"
"Wait until we find it, and then I'll show you whether I am afraid or not. Now, if you will go on and pay our bill and have our trunk brought down, I'll go and get a carriage."
In five minutes this was done, and the boys were soon on their way to their boarding-house.