it. Up it came, and below it was a dryly-built bottle-shaped well.

"We went down with lights. What do you think we found at the bottom of it?

"Perhaps water," I suggested.

"Water be d———," said Captain Chester, "we found the mouldering skeleton of a very tall man in a sitting posture. Beside him lay a large rosary and a stout oak cudgel—the rosary and cudgel I had seen in the phantom's hands the previous night. My friend, I had solved the problem—that was the skeleton of the old Prior of Pittenweem who vanished in that house hundreds of years ago."