"
"But that is foolish," I insisted, a bit angrily. "We talked it all
over, you know, and no harm can be done, except through our discovery.
Don't fail me now."
"Oh, I am not going to fail," indignantly. "The ride will steady my
nerves," she leaned forward whispering, her head inclined toward the
front seat. "Perhaps he can tell us who we shall meet there?"
"Pete," I asked, "who is out there now?"
The negro turned, so I could see the whites of his eyes.
"At de Henley plantation, sah? Why, I reckon de oberseer an' de
housekeeper--both white folks. I done don't know just who dey am fer
shure, cause dey don't stay long no more. I reckon dey can't abide dat
ghost, sah, an' de field han's dey won't stay on de place at all affer
dark."
"The overseer and housekeeper then are newly employed?"
"Dem am de fac's, sah. Deh ain't been dar no time at all, an' I reckon
as how dey won't stay long, though de niggers say de oberseer am a hell
ob a man."
Here was a pleasant situation surely. While the conditions were
favorable enough so far as our purpose was concerned, yet I fervently
wished we had postponed our arrival until daylight. While the negro's
ghost had no terrors for me--indeed, merely afforded amusement--I
realized my companion was not so indifferent.
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