"You think, then," said Forrester, "that it is just some uneasy soul that haunts that tree?"
"Yes," she replied.
"But," protested Forrester, "what could a ghost want with good United States money?"
"I don't know," replied Lucy. "In my worship I sometimes commune with the spirits, but they have never told me how they could use money."
"Have you ever tried to commune with this ghost?" asked Forrester.
"No," replied Lucy. "I don't think it belongs to my people."
"Suppose I were to offer you a good sum of money to try to communicate with it?" suggested Forrester.
"I don't need money," she replied.
"Don't you have to work for a living?"
"No."