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333 A DOUBLE-BARRELLED GHOST. 333

I then told her the truth, and showed how in any case the profits of my ancestor's book rightfully reverted back- wards to me. So we were married on them, and Jenny, fired by my success, tried her hand on a novel, and published it, truthfully enough, under the name of J. Halliwell. She has written all my stories ever since, including this one ; which, if it be necessarily false in the letter, is true in the spirit.