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“Well, I will see her again, and I understand your situation exactly—nay, do not get angry, for I will have my way, and all your mother needs she shall have, and when you make money you can repay me, for I shall keep an account of expenditures.
“But your mother has some heartache, and you must brighten her life all you can.
“I visited the Vanloo’s when they dwelt here—where is the heir to this property?”
“I do not know, sir; but the agent gave us permission to occupy one wing of it to care for the place.”
“He might well do so, for money would buy no one else to live here after the tragedies this old mansion has seen.
“You and your mother are brave, indeed, to dwell here; but good-night,” and the good physician entered his carriage and drove rapidly away from the old mansion, which had become known as “Spook Hall,” for the superstitious country folk and the coast dwellers vowed that the place was haunted—and certainly it was by cruel memories of red deeds done there one stormy night years before.