and seeing that it looked upon him with a face in which in some strange way there were fragments of all the faces it had shown him, wrestled with it.

“Leave me! Take me back! Haunt me no longer!”

In the struggle — if that can be called a struggle in which the Ghost, with no visible resistance on its own part, was undisturbed by any effort of its adversary — Scrooge observed that its light was burning high and bright; and dimly connecting that with its influence over him, he seized the extinguisher cap, and by a sudden action pressed it down upon its head.

The Spirit dropped beneath it, so that the extinguisher covered its whole form; but, though Scrooge pressed it down with all his force, he could not hide the light, which