Then the window flew open and the shadow of a body was seen standing outside, with its face looking straight at her face.
'Here,' said a voice, and the spectre vanished.
In spite of her boasted courage, the wife shrieked and fell in hysterics, and the two witnesses took up the deeds.
'We will have no more to do with this business,' cried they, and, taking up the new deeds which they had signed, they tore off their names, and by so doing these deeds became of no value, and the elder son was still heir to the property.
Four or five months later the young man arrived from India, where he had gone from Portugal soon after leaving home. The two gentlemen who had been concerned in the matter of the deeds, as well as his father, put many questions to him as to whether he on his side had seen visions or heard voices which warned him of the plots going on against him. But Alexander denied having received warning of any sort, 'unless,' he added, 'you can so call a dream I once had—which was indeed what sent me home—that my father had written me a very angry letter, threatening me, if I stayed away any longer, to deprive me of my inheritance. But why do you want to know?'
'HERE,' SAID A VOICE