obeyed after Jane had taken
several long breaths.

"Well, an' so the worst part of it is, Genesis says, it's because that
suit is haunted."

"What!"

"Yes'm," said Jane, solemnly; "Genesis says it's haunted. Genesis says
everybody over on the avynoo knows all about that suit, an' he says
that's why One-eye Beljus never could sell it before. Genesis says
One-eye Beljus tried to sell it to a colored man for three dollars,
but the man said he wouldn't put in on for three hunderd dollars, an'
Genesis says HE wouldn't, either, because it belonged to a Dago waiter
that--that--" Jane's voice sank to a whisper of unctuous horror. She was
having a wonderful time! "Mamma, this Dago waiter, he lived over on the
avynoo, an' he took a case-knife he'd sharpened--AN' HE CUT A LADY'S
HEAD OFF WITH IT!"

Mrs. Baxter screamed faintly.

"An' he got hung, mamma! If you don't believe it, you can ask One-eye
Beljus--I guess HE knows! An' you can ask--"

"Hush!"

"An' he sold this suit to One-eye Beljus when he was in jail, mamma. He
sold it to him before he got hung, mamma."

"Hush, Jane!"

But Jane couldn't hush now. "An' he had that suit on when he cut the
lady's head off, mamma, an' that's why it's haunted. They cleaned it all
up excep' a few little spots of bl--"

"JANE!" shouted her mother. "You must not talk about such things, and
Genesis mustn't tell, you stories of that sort!"

"Well, how could he help it, if he told me about Willie?" Jane urged,
reasonably.

"Never mind! Did that crazy ch--Did Willie LEAVE the baskets in that
dreadful place?"

"Yes'm--an' his watch an' pin," Jane informed her, impressively. "An'
One-eye Beljus wanted to know if Genesis knew Willie, because One-eye
Beljus wanted to know if Genesis thought Willie could get the three
dollars an; sixty cents, an' One-eye Beljus wanted to know if Genesis
thought he could get anything more out of him besides that. He told
Genesis he hadn't told Willie he COULD have the suit, after all; he just
told him he THOUGHT he could, but he wouldn't say for certain till he
brought him the three dollars an' sixty cents. So Willie left all his
things there, an' his watch an--"

"That will do!" Mrs. Baxter's voice was sharper than it had ever been in
Jane's recollection. "I don't need to hear any more--and I don't WANT to
hear any more!"

Jane was justly aggrieved. "But, mamma, it isn't MY fault!"

Mrs. Baxter's lips parted to speak, but she checked herself. "Fau