Verner's Pride (2)

. . . .Yet old Matthew held steady. "It was the face of one who has been dead these two years past," he told the rector. "I saw the spirit of Mr. Frederick Massingbird!" Things had never quite returned to normal in Deerham, after the mysterious drowning of Rachel Frost in Willow Pool. Now the young Dan Duff has fallen into seizures, having stared into the moonlit face of a tall, spectral man -- one he knows to be dead. And Robin Frost, who long before gave up waiting by Willow Pool for the ghost of Rachel to appear, has started spending nights again out beneath the open sky -- with a loaded gun cradled in his arms.Troubles beset even Lionel Verner, in line to inherit Verner's Pride through his new marriage. Even as all Deerham trembles at sightings of the dead man, Verner faces financial embarrassment, perhaps even ruin, due to his beautiful new wife's excesses.