Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Author:A. T. Quiller- Couch Yes; you shall have the whole tale. The first effect of the news of Harry¿s death in October last was simply to stun me. You may remember how once, years ago when we were children, we rode home together across the old Racecourse after a long day¿s skating, our skates swinging at our saddle-bows; how Harry challenged us to a gallop; and how, midw... more »ay, the roan mare slipped down neck over crop on the frozen turf and hurled me clean against the face of a stone dyke.« less