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The talk in the coffee-room had been of ghosts and apparitions, and / nearly everybody present had contributed his mite to the stock of / information upon a hazy and somewhat thread-bare subject. Opinions / ranged from rank incredulity to childlike faith, one believer going so / far as to denounce unbelief as impious, with a reference to the Witch of / Endor, which was somewhat marred by being complicated in an inexplicable / fashion with the story of Jonah.
"Talking of Jonah," he said solemnly, with a happy disregard of the fact / that he had declined to answer several eager questions put to him on the / subject, "look at the strange tales sailors tell us."