Lady Farquhar stopped and gazed dreamily and half sadly into the fire.
"Then Miss Fitzgerald was dead when you were at Ballyreina?" I asked.
Margaret looked up with some surprise.
"Did I not say so?" she exclaimed. "That was the point of most interest in what my brother discovered. He could not hear the exact date of her death, but he learnt with certainty that she was dead—had died, at Geneva I think, some time in the month of March in the previous year; the same month, March '55, in which I had twice seen the apparition at Ballyreina."
This was my friend's ghost story.
II
WITNESSED BY TWO
"But to-morrow—to-morrow you will keep for me. I may expect you at the usual time?" said young Mrs. Medway to her old friend Major Graham, as she shook hands with him.
"To-morrow? Certainly. I have kept it for you, Anne. I always said I should," he answered. There was a slight touch of reproach in his tone.