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Author of "From the Car Behind", "The Unafraid", etc.
COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS
PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A.
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"As well give up the Bible at once, as our belief in apparitions."—Wesley.
The house cried out to me for help.
In the after-knowledge I now possess of whatwas to happen there, that impression is not moreclearly definite than it was at my first sight of theplace. Let me at once set down that this is not thestory of a haunted house. It is, or was, a beleagueredhouse; strangely besieged as was Prague inthe old legend, when a midnight army of spectresunfurled pale banners and encamped around thecity walls.
Of course, I did not know all this, the day thatmy real-estate agent brought his little car to a stopbefore the dilapidated farm. I believed the houseonly appealed to be lived in; for deliverance fromthe destroying work of n