Over the Plum Pudding. Bangs John Kendrick

made me believe in you, I might have crammed up on my Greek and Latin anyhow. As it is, it's a Waterloo all around."

      "If you won't listen – " the ghost began again.

      "I've listened enough!" roared Parley, thoroughly enraged. "And if there was any way in which I could get at you, I'd make you smart for your low-down trick!"

      "To think," moaned the ghost, "that I should see the day when old Billie Watkins was accused of a low-down trick – and I tried to help him, too."

      "Tried to help me?" sneered Parley. "How the deuce do you make that out? You didn't come within a mile of me, and I've not only flunked, but I've lost a half-dozen bets on my ability to pass, just because I believed in you."