LAID AT LAST 



and finally determined the position where the discontented 

 ghost announced that his bones were actually reposing. 

 With professional neatness he made a plan of the shrubbery, 

 marked the grave thereon, and the whole party resolved to 

 sally forth with spades " to see if the old ghost spoke the 

 truth." The sailor cousin was particularly jocose in 

 unbelief. 



Yet truly, the next day, in the very place designated, they 

 came upon bonesto be exact, upon a skeleton complete 

 save for the skull. The sailor was the first to rush back 

 to the Abbey and collect a circle for a fresh seance. And 

 once more the phantom monk rapped out latitude and 

 longitude in connexion with his skull/ once more he was 

 found to be a ghost of the most complete veracity. And 

 the end of this true story is that the skeleton, complete 

 with its cranium, was laid duly and reverently in the old 

 consecrated ground in the garden. And the monk appeared 

 no more in the Lavender Room. 



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