The Dark Mill Stream by Arthur Gask — Read

BUT we must now go back to Tom Werrick, the brother of the dead ex-convict. The little boot-repairer had been in grim earnest when he had told Larose he believed in ghosts and the raising of the spirits of the dead. In his early boyhood days he had been brought up by an aunt who, when not suffering from the effects of undue alcoholic refreshment, had had her pious moments and, accordingly, had seen to it that Tom said his prayers and attended Sunday School when the one and only decent suit he possessed did not happen to be in pawn.

So Tom had learnt a lot of interesting and intriguing things. He knew all about Moses making the Egyptian cows come out in boils, what a lot of wives King Solomon had had, and how forty and two little children had been eaten by she-bears for giving sauce to the prophet Elisha and calling him an old bald-head.