he asked . `` No , '' said Jack unblushingly . `` Then there would be no use in my saying it . '' `` But you do n't mean that you ever really had , of course ? '' `` I do n't know . Something queer happened once . I 've never been able to explain it -- from a practical point of view , that is . Want to hear about it ? '' Of course we did . This was exciting . Nobody would ever have suspected Davenport of seeing ghosts . `` It 's conventional enough , '' he began . `` Ghosts do n't seem to have much originality . But it 's firsthand , Jack , if that 's what you want . I do n't suppose any of you have ever heard me speak of my brother , Charles . He was my senior by two years , and was a quiet , reserved sort of fellow -- not at all demonstrative , but with very strong and deep affections . `` When he left college he became engaged to Dorothy Chester . She was very beautiful , and my brother idolized her . She died a short time before the date set for their marriage , and Charles never recovered from the blow . `` I married Dorothy 's sister , Virginia .
Virginia did not XXXXX the least resemble her sister , but our eldest daughter was strikingly like her dead aunt .
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