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Title: Stories by American Authors, Volume 2

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Stories by American Authors

VOLUME II

_THE TRANSFERRED GHOST_
BY FRANK R. STOCKTON

_A MARTYR TO SCIENCE_
BY MARY PUTNAM JACOBI, M. D.

_MRS. KNOLLYS_
BY J. S. OF DALE, AUTHOR OF "GUERNDALE"

_A DINNER-PARTY_
BY JOHN EDDY

_THE MOUNT OF SORROW_
BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD

_SISTER SILVIA_
BY MARY AGNES TINCKER

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1896

COPYRIGHT, 1884, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

_The Stories in this Volume are protected by copyright, and are
printed here by authority of the authors or their representatives._

[Illustration: Frank R. Stockton]

THE TRANSFERRED GHOST.

BY FRANK R. STOCKTON.

_Century Magazine, May, 1882._

The country residence of Mr. John Hinckman was a delightful place to
me, for many reasons. It was the abode of a genial, though somewhat
impulsive, hospitality. It had broad, smooth-shaven lawns and towering
oaks and elms; there were bosky shades at several points, and not far
from the house there was a little rill spanned by a rustic bridge with
the bark on; there were fruits and flowers, pleasant people, chess,
billiards, rides, walks, and fishing. These were great attractions,
but none of them, nor all of them together, would have been sufficient
to hold me to the place very long. I had been invited for the trout
season, but should, probably, have finished my visit early in the
summer had it not been that upon fair days, when the grass was dry,
and the sun not too hot, and there was but little wind, there strolled
beneath the lofty elms, or passed lightly through the bosky shades,
the form of my Madeline.

This lady was not, in very truth, my Madeline. She had never given
herself to me, nor had I, in any way, acqui