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WHEN GHOST MEETS GHOST


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|                   BY WILLIAM DE MORGAN                       |
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| JOSEPH VANCE                                                 |
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| ALICE-FOR-SHORT                                              |
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| WHEN GHOST MEETS GHOST                                       |
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WHEN GHOST MEETS GHOST

by

WILLIAM DE MORGAN

Author of "Joseph Vance," "Alice-for-Short," Etc.







New York

Copyright, 1914,
by
Henry Holt and Company

Published February, 1914




Dedicated to The Spirit of Fiction




CONTENTS

PART I


CHAPTER                                          PAGE

      0. SAPPS COURT                                3
      I. DAVE AND HIS FAMILY                        6
     II. A SHORTAGE OF MUD                         16
    III. DAVE'S ACCIDENT                           24
     IV. BACK FROM THE HOSPITAL                    30
      V. MRS. PRICHARD                             40
     VI. THE STORY OF THE TWINS                    45
    VII. DAVE'S CONVALESCENT HAVEN                 60
   VIII. DAVE'S RETURN TO SAPPS COURT              72
     IX. A VERDICT OF DEATH BY DROWNING            84
      X. AT THE TOWERS                             93
     XI. MR. PELLEW AND MISS DICKENSON            110
    XII. THE MAN WHO WAS SHOT                     117
   XIII. AN INQUIRY FOR A WIDOW                   127
    XIV. A SUCCESSFUL CAPTURE                     134
     XV. WHAT AUNT M'RIAR OVERHEARD               150
    XVI. THE INNER LIFE OF SAPPS COURT            156
   XVII. HOW ADRIAN WAS NURSED AT THE TOWERS      171
  XVIII. HOW GWEN AND THE COUNTESS VISITED ADRIAN 185
    XIX. GWEN'S VERY BAD NIGHT                    200
     XX. SLOW AND FAST APPROXIMATION              208
    XXI. A RAPID ARRIVAL                          220
   XXII. A CONFESSION AND ITS EFFECTS             239
  XXIII. GWEN'S VISIT TO MRS. MARRABLE            258
   XXIV. THE SLOW APPROXIMATION GO