Category: Crime, Thrillers and Mystery
1. MISS BLAKE--FROM MEMORY 2. THE CORONER'S INQUEST 3. OUR LAST TENANT 4. MYSELF AND MISS BLAKE 5. THE TRIAL 6. WE AGREE TO COMPROMISE 7. MY OWN STORY 8. MY FIRST NIGHT AT RIVER HALL 9. A TEMPORARY PEACE 10. THE WATCHER IS WATCHED 11. MISS BLAKE ONCE MORE 12. HELP 13. LIGHT AT...
I did not slacken my speed for a moment as we came face to face; I did not turn to look back after him; I retraced my steps to the office; affected to look out some paper, and o...
12. Chapter 12"You are still young, Mr. Patterson, and life, as yet, is new to you, or else I would ask whether, in going into an entirely strange office, you have not, if agitated in mind, p...
11. Chapter 11"I have obtained an important clue; but that is all I can say for the present. Will you tell Mr. Harringford I am at River Hall, and that you think, being on the spot and knowin...
10. Chapter 10"You are very kind, Munro," I answered; "but I cannot give up. If I had all the wish in the world to leave here to-night, a will stronger than my own would bring me back here to...
7. Chapter 7"Aunt, aunt," she said, "this is the gentleman who stopped the horses," and before I could speak a word she held my hand in hers, and was thanking me once again with her beautif...
4. Chapter 4"I have sent her half a year's rent," was his reply; "and I have refrained from prosecuting you all for conspiracy, as I am told I might have done. Lawyers, I am aware, admit th...
8. Chapter 8Curiously enough, at that moment fear fell from me like a garment which has served its turn, and in the strength of my manhood, I felt able to face anything the Uninhabited Hous...
6. Chapter 6Our counsel had mentally decided that, although the jury might feel inclined to uphold contracts and to repudiate ghosts, still, it would be impossible for them to overlook the...
3. Chapter 3After that the place stood vacant for a time. Various care-takers were eager to obtain the charge of it, but I only remember one who was not eager to leave.
2. Chapter 2For her sake, not being a liberal man, he spent money freely; for her sake he endured Miss Blake; for her sake he bought the place which afterwards caused us so much trouble; fo...
1. Chapter 11. MISS BLAKE--FROM MEMORY 2. THE CORONER'S INQUEST 3. OUR LAST TENANT 4. MYSELF AND MISS BLAKE 5. THE TRIAL 6. WE AGREE TO COMPROMISE 7. MY OWN STORY 8. MY FIRST NIGHT AT RIVER...
5. Chapter 5"I wish sir," I said, "you would see Colonel Morris yourself. I am quite certain that every statement he made to me is true in his belief. I do not say, I believe him; I only sa...
13. Chapter 13"What are you doing, making all that spluttering on your paper?" says an interrupting voice at this juncture, and, looking up, I see Miss Blake seated by the window, clothed and...