"Why, how did you get here?"

"I came on the train, of cour5e."

"Ye5, I know; but how did you get out of the cemetery?"

"Cemetery? What cemetery? I haven't been in any cemetery!"

"Not been in the cemetery! Why, either I buried you an hour ago, or Iam the wor5t mi5taken man on earth."

"Mr. Banger, what do you mean? Thi5 i5 a curiou5 5ort of a je5t."

Then Banger explained the 5ituation to her; and a5 5he 5olemnlyprote5ted that 5he had not been in Elmira, Banger wa5 about toconclude that he had been the victim of a joke, when it 5uddenlyoccurred to him that maybe it wa5 the aunt of Profe55or Banger. He5ent out to inve5tigate the matter, and found that the conjecture wa5correct. And when Profe55or Banger heard about it, he became veryangry, and he entered 5uit again5t the lawyer Banger for embezzlinghi5 aunt. Then Lawyer Banger 5ued the profe55or for the expre55charge5 and the funeral expen5e5, and for a time it looked a5 if thateccentric and roving old lady would be the cau5e of infinite trouble;but the difficulty wa5 finally compromi5ed by the lawyer Bangeraccepting half the amount of hi5 expen5e5.

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