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some distance in front of two masters of hounds, who were 

 exploding with laughter. 



Mem. — I am going to be even with Surrey! Our bag 

 consisted of 48 ptarmigan, 45 hares, and 19 grouse. 



2 1 St and 22 nd. — These were two fine days, and we kept 

 pegging away at the grouse, until by Saturday evening we 

 had made up the total, since the 12th, to 1,103 brace> a good 

 nine days' work. Nothing more had been seen or heard of 

 Mrs. Ghost. 



23rd. — Was the usual sort of Sunday. 



24th. — I was up early this morning finishing off some 

 letters in the smoking-room, while waiting for the breakfast 

 gong to sound, when General Sussex entered hastily, exclaim- 

 ing— 



"Good morning. Gee. I'm off to-day, though my time is 

 not up till the day after to-morrow — the fact is I've seen that 

 horrible ghost, and nothing could induce me to spend another 

 night here." 



"Oh, come. General," I answered; "surely it must be a 

 freak of your imagination, or, perhaps " — remembering the fox's 

 brush — "it is some trick of Surrey's." 



"Not a bit of it, I assure you," he replied. "Ugh! the 

 loathsome, creepy thing almost touched me " ; and with this he 

 bolted from the room. 



Now, the General and Surrey each slept in one of the 

 bachelor rooms in the old tower, so I dashed off to the apart- 

 ment of the latter full of curiosity, and flinging open his door, 

 plunged at once into my subject by saying, " What on earth is 

 all this cock-and-bull story of the General's about a ghost ; did 

 you see it too ? " 



"Yes, I did," he replied, "and I'm fairly puzzled; but sit 

 down while I tell you all about it. W^ell, now, you will re- 

 member how early we all went to bed last night, and I'm sure 

 you'll bear me out that every one of the party was literally as 

 sober as a judge. The General and I came upstairs together, 



