Present at a Hanging

the long version

Collection of stories: **[Pt. 1.] The ways of ghosts.** Present at a hanging -- A cold greeting -- A wireless message -- An arrest -- **[pt. 2.] Soldier-folk. A man with two lives --** Three and one are one -- A baffled ambuscade -- Two military executions -- **[pt. 3.] Some haunted houses. The Isle of Pines --** A fruitless assignment -- A vine on a house -- At old man Eckert's -- The Spook House -- The other lodgers -- The thing at Nolan -- The difficulty of crossing a field -- An unfinished race -- Charles Ashmore's trail -- Science to the front.