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Illustration by William Clarkson Stanfield from 'The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain', a novel by Charles Dickens published in 1848

CHAPTER I.

THE GIFT BESTOWED.

Everybody said so.

Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as