The little shop girl is going home with me . I 've promised her a place in my husband 's store . '' When Aunt Cyrilla and Lucy Rose reached Pembroke there was nobody to meet them because everyone had given up expecting them . It was not far from the station to Edward 's house and Aunt Cyrilla elected to walk . `` I 'll carry the basket , '' said Lucy Rose . Aunt Cyrilla relinquished it with a smile . Lucy Rose smiled too . `` It 's a blessed old basket , '' said the latter , `` and I love it . Please forget all the silly things I ever said about it , Aunt C'rilla . '' Davenport 's Story It was a rainy afternoon , and we had been passing the time by telling ghost stories . That is a very good sort of thing for a rainy afternoon , and it is a much better time than after night . If you tell ghost stories after dark they are apt to make you nervous , whether you own up to it or not , and you sneak home and dodge upstairs in mortal terror , and undress with your back to the wall , so that you ca n't fancy there is anything behind you . We had each told a story , and had had the usual assortment of mysterious noises and death warnings and sheeted spectres and so on , down through the whole catalogue of horrors -- enough to satisfy any reasonable ghost-taster . But Jack , as usual , was dissatisfied . He said our stories were all second-hand stuff . There was n't a man in the crowd who had ever seen or heard a ghost ; all our so-called authentic stories had been told us by persons who had the story from other persons who saw the ghosts . `` One does n't get any information from that , '' said Jack . `` I never expect to get so far along as to see a real ghost myself , but I would like to see and talk to one who had . '' Some persons appear to have the knack of getting their wishes granted . Jack is one of that ilk .
Just as he made the remark , Davenport sauntered in and , finding out what was going on , volunteered XXXXX tell a ghost story himself -- something that had happened to his grandmother , or maybe it was his great-aunt ; I forget which .
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