Croker's popular classic, a delightful mixture of a British colonialist setting (India, of course) and the ghostly re-enactment in an architectural space. Another one of those Victorian Christmas ghost stories, published in the Christmas number of London Society magazine in 1890. Like many other Victorian "haunted house" ghost stories — see Charlotte Riddell's "The Uninhabited House" or Rhoda Broughton's "The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth" — it also reflects that common concern with the supernatural's financial impact upon real estate.