The bar we were meeting Phil at was about six blocks away, so we walked. Billy was quiet and contemplative, and I was thinking about what Anne had said about her family. It had never occurred to me to get the ghosts to do things like sabotaging someone for profit. What I couldn"t figure out was, what was in it for the ghosts?
“Do you think Anne was right about your great-grandfather getting ghosts to do things for him? I mean, what was in it for the ghosts?”
She exhaled loudly. “For starters, I think he agreed not to kill them, but I think there"s more. I remembered something after you left, part of a history study we did when I was in high school. It focused on the maritime industry from the late 1800s to the present. I had to look it up, just to be sure. In the late 1930s there were se
