I make my living by telling peoples' fortunes;--but I cannot
possibly understand how you know these things."

Ryoseki answered gravely:--

"Never mind how I happen to know them.... I now want to speak to
you about Hagiwara's funeral. The House of Hagiwara has its own
family-cemetery, of course; but to bury him there would not be
proper. He must be buried beside O-Tsuyu, the Lady Iijima; for
his karma-relation to her was a very deep one. And it is but
right that you should erect a tomb for him at your own cost,
because you have been indebted to him for many favors."

Thus it came to pass that Shinzaburo was buried beside O-Tsuyu,
in the cemetery of Shin-Banzui-In, in Yanaka-no-Sasaki.

--Here ends the story of the Ghosts in the Romance of the Peony-
Lantern.--

1 The Male and Female principles of the universe, the Active and
Passive forces of Nature. Yusai refers here to the old Chinese
nature-philosophy,--better known to Western readers by the name
FENG-SHUI.

***

My friend asked me whether the story had interested me; and I
answered by telling him that I wanted to go to the cemetery of
Shin-Banzui-In,--so as to realize more definitely the local
color of the author's studies.