The Last House in C-- Street

I am not a believer in ghosts in general; I see no good in them. They come--that is, are reported to come--so irrelevantly, purposelessly--so ridiculously, in short--that one's common sense as regards this world, one's supernatural sense of the other, are alike revolted. Then nine out of ten 'capital ghost stories' are so easily accounted for; and in the tenth, when all natural explanation fails, one who has discovered the extraordinary difficulty there is in all society in getting hold of that very slippery article called a fact, is strongly inclined to shake a dubious head, ejaculating, 'Evidence! it is all a question of evidence!'