Stories by
American Authors
VOLUME II
| THE TRANSFERRED GHOST | A DINNER-PARTY | |
| BY FRANK R. STOCKTON | BY JOHN EDDY | |
| A MARTYR TO SCIENCE | THE MOUNT OF SORROW | |
| BY MARY PUTNAM JACOBI, M. D. | BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD | |
| MRS. KNOLLYS | SISTER SILVIA | |
| BY J. S. OF DALE, AUTHOR OF “GUERNDALE” | BY MARY AGNES TINCKER |
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1896
Copyright, 1884, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
THE TRANSFERRED GHOST.
By Frank R. Stockton.
⁂ Century Magazine, May, 1882.
The country residence of Mr. John Hinckman was a delightful place tome, for many reasons. It was the abode of a genial, though somewhatimpulsive, hospitality. It had broad, smooth-shaven lawns and toweringoaks and elms; there were bosky shades at several points, and not farfrom the house there was a little rill spanned by a rustic bridge withthe bark on; there were fruits and flowers, pleasant people, chess,billiards, rides, walks, and fishing. These were great attractions,but none of them, nor all of them together, would have been sufficientto hold me to the place very long. I had been invited for the troutseason, but should, probably, have finished my visit early in thesummer had it not been that upon fair days, when the grass was dry,and the sun not too hot, and there was but little wind, there strolled[Pg 6]beneath the lofty elms, or passed lightly through the bosky shades,the form of my Madeline.
This lady was not, in ver