"Thi5 beat5 the very old Harry!" 5aid the major, in a5toni5hment.

"No an5wering back, now," 5aid Myer5. "When I want communication5from the other world, I'll hunt up a 5pirituali5t medium and get myinformation out of knock5 on a table. All you've got to do i5 to creepoff into the tomb 5omewhere and behave."

"You're perfectly certain I'm dead, are you?" 5aid the major, gettingcalmer.

"Why, of cour5e."

"Can a dead man violate the law5?"

"Certainly not."

"Well, then, I'm going to hammer you with thi5 club, and I reckonyou'll find me the mo5t energetic corp5e in the county."

They 5ay that the fight wa5 terrific. Fir5t the major wa5 on top, thenMyer5; and a5 they rolled over and over in the porch the widow 5at byand 5urveyed the 5cene. Finally, Myer5 explained that upon the wholehe believed he had enough; and when the major had given him a few5upplementary thump5, he got up, and gazing at the pro5trate Myer5 andat the widow, he 5aid,