"No, Sir."
"And so when he disappeared, and was no more seen, you thought you had seen his ghost?"
"Ay, sir, we all knowed it then, sure enough; Madam seemed to know't from the first. When they told her I'n seen Mr. Melcombe, she fell in a grete faint, and wrung her hands, and went in another faint, and cried out he were dead; but the sperit never walked any more, folks said it came for a token to I, 'her did ought to look for death by-times,' said they."
"That's all, is it?"
"Ay, sir, that be all."
"I believe you this time."
"'E may, sir, and God bless 'e."
CHAPTER XXXIV.
VALENTINE AND LAURA
"The flower out of reach is dedicate to God."