[Italics are indicatedby underscores
James Rusk, jrusk@cyberramp.net.]





LITTLE NOVELS

by Wilkie Collins




MRS. ZANT AND THE GHOST.

I.

THE course of this narrative describes the return of a
disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the reader on new and
strange ground.

Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of
day, did the supernatural influence assert itself. Neither
revealed by a vision, nor announced by a voice, it reached mortal
knowledge through the sense which is least easily self-deceived:
the sense that feels.

The record of this event will of necessity produce conflicting
impressions. It will raise, in some minds, the doubt which reason