"Hello! did you see the ghost?"
"What ghost?"
"The ghost of Ballard."
"I don't know anything about the ghost of Ballard, but I had a rough scrimmage with the gamest man I ever tackled."
"Didn't you recognize him?"
"No."
"I wonder if there are two of 'em on the island?"
"What's happened, boys?"
"Well, it's looking as though the devil himself were loose to-night."
The man proceeded and told how another of their crew had met the island mystery, and had been half drowned by him.