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XIX.  A DIVERSION PLAYED ON A PENNY WHISTLE
XX.  CELEBRATES THE TIME-HONOURED TREATMENT OF A DRAGON BY THE HERO 

CHAPTER XII 

Laying of ghosts is a public duty, and, as the mystery of the apparition
that had frightened little Clare was never solved on the stage of events
at Raynham, where dread walked the Abbey, let us go behind the scenes a
moment.  Morally superstitious as the baronet was, the character of his
mind was opposed to anything like spiritual agency in the affairs of men,
and, when the matter was made clear to him, it shook off a weight of
weakness and restored his mental balance; so that from this time he went
about more like the man he had once been, grasping more thoroughly the
great truth, that This World is well designed.  Nay, he could laugh on
hearing Adrian, in reminiscence of the ill luck of one of the family
members at its first manifestation, call the uneasy spirit, Algernon's
Leg. 

Mrs.  Doria was outraged.  She maintained that her child had
seen---- Not to believe in it was almost to rob her of her personal

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