The Ghost

She became a Voice—pure, miraculous, all-compelling; and the listeners seemed to hold breath while the matchless melody wove round them its persuasive spell. She went to Vienna to fulfil an engagement, and Lord Clarenceux after her. All dealers knew that, and any one who had 'the best' to sell knew that in Lord Clarenceux he would find a purchaser. Here was a spirit, which in order to appease the pangs of a supernatural jealousy, was ready to use its immaterial powers to destroy scores of people against whom it could not possibly have any grudge.