for a moment, and charged at her. She screamed and turned, and then

the chair legs came gently but firmly against her back and impelled

her and Hall out of the room. The door slammed violently and was

locked. The chair and bed seemed to be executing a dance of triumph

for a moment, and then abruptly everything was still.

Mrs. Hall was left almost in a fainting condition in Mr. Hall's

arms on the landing. It was with the greatest difficulty that Mr.

Hall and Millie, who had been roused by her scream of alarm,

succeeded in getting her downstairs, and applying the restoratives

customary in such cases.

'Tas sperits," said Mrs. Hall. "I know 'tas sperits. I've read in

papers of en. Tables and chairs leaping and dancing..."

Take a drop more, Janny," said Hall. "'Twill steady ye."

Lock him out," said Mrs. Hall. "Don't let him come in again.

I half guessed--I might ha' known. With them goggling eyes and

bandaged head, and never going to church of a Sunday. And all

they bottles--more'n it's right for any one to have. He's put the

sperits into the furniture.... My good old furniture! 'Twas in

that very chair my poor dear mother used to sit when I was a

little girl. To think it should rise up against me now!"

"Just a drop more, Janny," said Hall. "Your nerves is all upset."

The Invisible Man