midnight
` Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it . However , I could n't tell it if I would . I do n't know what makes the poor ghost walk ; and if you do , I shall say you invent . But at any rate there is a ghost , and she walks along the side of High Fell at midnight every Midsummer day . If you see her and she passes you in silence , why you only got a fright for your pains . But if she speaks to you , you die within the year . Old John Backhouse is a widower with one daughter .