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"I can't say. But that's the story." "That there's a ghost, but that nobody knows it's a ghost?" "Well    not till afterward, at any rate." "Till afterward?" "Not till long, long afterward." I CAN'T SAY BUT THAT'S THE STORY THAT THERE'S A GHOST BUT THAT NOBODY KNOWS IT'S A GHOST WELL NOT TILL AFTERWARD AT ANY RATE TILL AFTERWARD NOT TILL LONG LONG AFTERWARD
 water supply. "It's too uncomfortable to be true!" Edward Boyne had continued to exult as the avowal of each disadvantage was successively wrung from her; but he had cut short his rhapsody to ask, with a sudden relapse to distrust: "And the ghost? You've been concealing from us the fact that there is no ghost!" Mary, at the moment, had laughed with him, yet almost with her laugh, being possessed of several sets of independent perceptions, had noted a sudden flatness of tone in Alida's answering hilarity. "Oh, Dorsetshire's full of ghosts, you know." "Yes, yes; but that won't do. I don't want to have to drive ten miles to see somebody else's ghost. I want one of my own on the premises. Is there a ghost at Lyng?" His rejoinder had made Alida laugh again, and it was then that she had flung back tantalizingly: "Oh, there is one, of course, but you'll never know it." "Never know it?" Boyne pulled her up. "But what in the world constitutes a ghost except the fact of its being known for one? SHE ASSURED THEM OF THE DEPLORABLE UNCERTAINTY OF THE WATER SUPPLY IT'S TOO UNCOMFORTABLE TO BE TRUE EDWARD BOYNE HAD CONTINUED TO EXULT AS THE AVOWAL OF EACH DISADVANTAGE WAS SUCCESSIVELY WRUNG FROM HER BUT HE HAD CUT SHORT HIS RHAPSODY TO ASK WITH A RELAPSE TO DISTRUST AND THE GHOST YOU'VE BEEN CONCEALING FROM US THE FACT THAT THERE IS NO GHOST MARY AT THE MOMENT HAD LAUGHED WITH HIM YET ALMOST WITH HER LAUGH BEING POSSESSED OF SEVERAL SETS OF INDEPENDENT PERCEPTIONS HAD BEEN STRUCK BY A NOTE OF FLATNESS IN ALIDA'S ANSWERING HILARITY OH DORSET'S FULL OF GHOSTS YOU KNOW YES YES BUT THAT WON'T DO I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO DRIVE TEN MILES TO SEE SOMEBODY ELSE'S GHOST I WANT ONE OF MY OWN ON THE PREMISES IS THERE A GHOST AT LYING HIS REJOINDER HAD MADE ALIDA LAUGH AGAIN AND IT WAS THEN THAT SHE HAD FLUNG BACK TANTALIZINGLY OH THERE IS ONE OF COURSE BUT YOU'LL NEVER KNOW IT NEVER KNOW IT BOYNE PULLED HER UP BUT WHAT IN THE WORLD CONSTITUTES A GHOST EXCEPT THE FACT OF ITS BEING KNOWN FOR ONE
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