She may know you all the time, and think it is you who do not want to renew the acquaintance. In time they become a sort of permanent dream, the kind that makes you want to wake up and find it true. It will come in time. There are said to be two at Simla, not counting the woman who blows the bellows at Syree dâk-bungalow on the Old Road; Mussoorie has a house haunted of a very lively Thing; a White Lady is supposed to do night-watchman round a house in Lahore; Dalhousie says that one of her houses "repeats" on autumn evenings all the incidents of a horrible horse-and-precipice accident; Murree has a merry ghost, and now that she has been swept by cholera, will have room for some sorrowful ones; there are Officers' Quarters in Mian Mir whose doors open without reason, and whose furniture is guaranteed to creak, not with the heat of June but with the weight of Invisibles who come to lounge in the chairs; Peshawar possesses houses that none will willingly rent; and there is something-not fever-wrong with a big bungalow in Allahabad. Now this is weird: the events referred to in the story would make it a sequel to "The Mangrove Man"- though it's published in 1923-and the "hero" has a different name!

Then why not take the trouble to make yourself known to her? He had then stood by his pet theory of drainage, in spite of ridicule and fever, and converted a swamp into a promising cocoa-nut plantation, and himself into a living skeleton. I see," said the girl slowly, after a pause. "Then it comes to much the same thing, Umbrella Billiards doesn't it? Deuced hard luck on a girl! Then, when I found myself in the position to come back, I woke up and saw that one thing and another had made a different man of me-so different that even the girl I was engaged to didn't know me. I did think of doing what you suggest," he said; "but fancy the shock to a girl of finding herself tied to a comparative stranger! He was sure to be doing one of the three, for Yalina was like that. No one was putting his luggage into the next room. You will now be in your room.

This was Marsden, going over the accounts in the mosquito-proof room of the bungalow, or planning some new drainage scheme, or swallowing quinine wrapped in cigarette papers. Jingles was going through a heart-breaking experience. The work was hard, and there were other things that made life a bit difficult, but I always had my dream with me, and that kept me going. I'm going to the Tates again this year … At first you think this is the fault of the people and things that went to make up your dream; then, after a little while, you see that it is not their fault at all, but your own. A little further along the track there was a bend from which you could see a solitary yellow light. There are, in this land, ghosts who take the form of fat, cold, pobby corpses, and hide in trees near the roadside till a traveller passes. These wander along the pathways at dusk, or hide in the crops near a village, and call seductively.

A man with a sensitive hide has no right to sleep in dâk-bungalows. Without the glint of a smile, and in exactly the tone of a man giving the order for a battle, he said, "The general presents his compliments, and would like to know when he shall send the trunks?" I recollect a message of this sort being once brought to us when we were visiting an intimate friend, by the tallest, most formidable soldier in the regiment. Quite," agreed the man. He was sitting now with his bony knees drawn up to his chin. " But, unfortunately, one can't order them. You may treat anything, from a Viceroy to a Vernacular Paper, with levity; but you must behave reverently toward a ghost, and particularly an Indian one. And don't get one of these 'ere trashy cheap ones when you do get it, my boy. Get the cane ("Cain", get it?). Marsden had leased it-a thousand odd acres of it-for ninety-nine years at an annual rental of rather less than a halfpenny an acre. Two days ago Moseley-of Moseley and Frieburg, land sharks-had sauntered over Valina with a green-lined umbrella, and, after a few disparaging remarks, had offered Marsden five thousand for the place.