"It was getting dark, as I have said, though not dark enough for lighting the lamps, and in some corners below it was as dark as midnight. To one of these places Jeff led us.
"`Mind how you go now,' whispered Jeff; `it's here somewhere, and there's a hole too--look-out--there it is!'
"`What! the ghost?' whispered Stumps, beginning to feel uneasy. To say truth, I began to feel uneasy myself without well knowing why. At that moment I fell over something, and came down with a crash that shook Stumps's nerves completely out of order.
"`I say, let's go back,' he muttered in a tremulous voice.
"`No, no,' whispered Jeff seizing Stumps by the arm with a sudden grip that made him give a short yelp, `we are at the place now. It's in this dark passage. Listen!'
"We all held our breath and listen
