ask me who i was who were you then said raising his voice you re particular for a shade he was going to say to a shade but this as more appropriate in life i was your partner jacob can you � can you sit down asked looking doubtfully at him i can do it then asked the question because he didn t know whether a ghost so transparent might and himself in a condition to a take a chair and felt that in the event of its being impossible it might involve the necessity of an embarrassing explanation but the ghost sat down on the opposite side of the fireplace as if he were used to it you don t believe in me observed the ghost i don t said � what evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your own senses i don t know said f why do you doubt your senses because said a little thing affects them a slight disorder of the stomach makes them you may be an bit of beef a blot of a of cheese a fragment of an there s more of than of grave about you whatever you are was not much in the habit of jokes nor did he feel in his heart by any means then the truth is that he tried to be as a means of his own attention and keeping down his terror s voice disturbed the veiy in his bones to sit staring at those fixed glazed eyes in silence for a moment would play felt the very deuce with mm there was something very too in ihe s being provided with an atmosphere of his own could not feel it himself but this was clearly the case for though the ghost sat perfectly motionless its hair and skirts and were stiu agitated as by the hot from an oven you see this said returning quickly to the charge for the reason just assigned and wishing though it were only for a second to divert the vision s stony gaze from himself i do replied the ghost you are not looking at it said but i see it said the ghost notwithstanding well returned i have but to swallow this and be for the rest of my days persecuted by a of all of my own creation i tell you i at this the spirit raised a frightful cry and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise that held on tight to his chair to save himself from falling in a a greater hu honor tiie off the round his head as if it were too warm to wear in doors its lower jaw dropped down upon its h fell upon his knees and his hands before mm i he said apparition why do you me f man of the worldly mind replied the ghost do you in me or not i do said i must but why do spirits walk tlie and why do they to me it is required of every man the ghost returned that tlie within him should walk abroad among his and travel far and wide and if that spirit goes not in it is condemned to do so after death nt is to wander through the world � oh woe is me � and wi what it share but might have shared on earth mid to happiness the raised a cry and shook its chain and g its hands you are said trembling me i w h chain i in life replied the ghost it by link and yard by i it on of own will and of my own free will i it is its l tt strange to y n t i h l more and more wm know pursued the tiie weight k i h of tht strong yea bear yourself it was a� as aa s ago � i it it is a x ut him on door in f ai by fifty or sixty f � k i b� t w � ss � � � � i a i t le � it ik aw i � k um wc s is w l� w � � � r � f � � i i � a i� ft m � ah l t� � i� mv i a it spirit never walked beyond oar � ne � in life my loved beyond die limits of our money aad journeys lie before me it was a with be became fill to put bis bands in bis pockets pondering on what tbe bad said be did so now but up liis eyes or getting off bis knees you must bare been very slow about it jacob observed in a business like manner witb and deference slow tbe repeated seven years dead mused and travelling all the whole time said tbe no rest no incessant torture of remorse you travel fast said on tbe wings of tbe wind replied tbe you might have got over a great quantity of ground in seven years said the ghost on hearing this set up another cry and its chain so in the dead of the night ke ward would have been justified in it for a captive bound and double cried the phantom not to know that ages of incessant labour by immortal creatures for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed not to know that any christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere whatever it may be will find its mortal life too � for vast means of usefulness not to know that no ai of can make amends for one life s opportunities yet such was i oh such was but you were always a good man of who now began to apply this to business cried tbe wringing its again mankind was my business the common was 