‘He is here,’ said the other. ‘You will meet him soon, if you stay.’ ‘But you murdered him.’ ‘Of course I did. It is all right now.’ ‘All right, is it? All right for you, you mean. But what about the poor chap himself, laying cold and dead?’ ‘But he isn’t. I have told you, you will meet him soon. He sent you his love.’ ‘What I’d like to understand,’ said the Ghost, ‘is what you’re here for, as pleased as Punch, you, a bloody murderer, while I’ve been walking the streets down there and living in a place like a pigsty all these years.’ ‘That is a little hard to understand at first. But it is all
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