Show What the Gray House lid Hid T T t C 0 D 0 Di i The he Mystery ery ofa of a Haunted cd Mansion 3 m o 0 oby 3 by Wyndham l Martyn W v N U Copyright by Wyndham Martyn THE STORY Hilton prosperous New NewYork NewYork NewYork York merchant has Ions purchased a country place tits place Gray hou house e near Pine Pino Ino Plains Miss a former tenant of tho the Gray lio holo rails at nt his Ills office and nd him that the house Is under un- un under un under der a curse Further alarming details are upon Adolt Adolf 11 bys by's secretary by n a aman man who claims to have ha been chauffeur for Sir Stanford Sey- Sey Seymour Seymour mour former occupant of the place CHAPTER I Continued I-Continued Continued 2 Julius Caesar was a small man he said suddenly much to his hosts host's host So was Napoleon So is I Lloyd George He lie bent hent o er W the table as If Imparting a profound se- se secret secret se secret cret cret- So was the lie master of them my nil my Idol Lenin Sir Mr Ir touched bis his receding forehead with v Il a dramatic gesture ure Dont think he lie cause cause you are ure twice hIce h Ice us bl big that you youcan youcan youcan can outmatch me here bere I 1 Again he be smote his brow v ts t's all nil right said the other pacifically Benny nn Leonard aint u II big 1111 man Ulan and I guess hes he's good So was seas the baby haby that steered Hinck Sand and und won one ODe thousand iron Inon men for daddy You wouldn't b ba b where you are today If you OU hadn't gut gilt the gray rny Say do lo you be lIe In lu haunted houses I 1 dont don't believe in haunted houses asserted nor In the Im Immortality Immortality mortality of time the soul Im I'm m away be beyond yond that religious ls bunk I 1 didn't believe e In haunted houses when 1 I first went up there with Mr lIr Seymour Se I 1 was like you conceited you bone headed bone headed I thought 1 I knew It nil niland alland and aad then some The stranger had a cold and compelling eye e lie looked at Sir Mr In to a 8 way that Ills dig dispelled man ninny many of the secretary's the orles ones He lie leaned over o the table tuLle Its ils fIne and dundy to hold them beliefs when you aint been put to the Hie test tesi 1 1 I I I dont don't get you said Sir Mr lr er Irritably You will said the other simply I used to be chauffeur for Mr Se Sey Seymour rumour up at the Gray bouse house Ills to t kids died UI up there Theres There's a D curse CUllie on that thul place The man that had it II before lost lust his wife Nothing the matter with her until she went up to Dutchess county fa Bo theres there's tiling thing In the lake there that calls leo peo pie Ille lc to It It The man who had It utter ufler Seymour and me was warned Sy Sey Seymour mour said be he went there on his bis own responsibility Ill I'll II say Seymour was square about warning him Well sir that man was teas found drowned In that thul d-d d d lake The doctors o Curlu Curl Cud u thing the matter mailer except he lie was drowned Its It's a bad had place to 10 o live I-e In InI J I know knowl I 1 I 1 I was there fur four two years The stran strangers stranger's ers er's voice sank to a D whis whisper whisper per You You feet feel eel like people are watching you rou all the lie time lime lie he went ou ua Then hen you ou wake UI up you ou think theres there's Iwo pl pit nt lit the fie fool of your heel bed d and anil when you ou switch on the light It like you ou catch them going away Oy out oui of the of your our eye ee The help hll wont won't Sla stay there there The They know knowl I Sir Mr Seymour Semour hc lies lie's s 's a lord or something hing now brought now now- brought out an nn old cook from land She sent ent from whit she saw Do you cu expect me to e bellee belle e that said i No O said the other You Iou got the education to tu understand aIr Mr toothy may nay All I risk usk you ou to do du Hyou It you OU want to keep job Is to try and prevent enl him from from frum taking his lull lIy ily up t here there to II live bitterly resented the strIctures on his education lie thought ot of many mony cut cutting tin things s to say ay but words did not nol come easily Ills bruin brain seethed brilliant still stillborn stillborn born Lorn speeches After Arter a lime hate he gath gilb rell cred his Ills wit wits together her It IL amounts to this he lie said sold You Yuu want me to wars war Hanby before Its It's too luo late I dont don't give a I n d-n d n whether her you do door d or of not returned the stranger Ice l e 1 erot If want gut ut It oft m mi conscience you them to tu go t to K their deuth Its It's up to lu ou lo Suu ou Any mar taking liking his family there Just as fiS much ns as It lie he is If killing em cm What hut fed lJ em cm strychnine in their soup do 1 1 I get for this Not ot a o n d-n thIng Im I'm out a dinner That said quickly Is ls our your our own liability Im no piker said the other ley Pat Pal bring o a couple ot of them t liars dars that thai smokes s and some black coffee Sly My Iy friend here bere mere has bus an important date CHAPTER U II At nine o'clock Mr Sir stood outside the Gothic entrance of the th building where Milton nilton main morn maintained a duplex apartment was In an unusual frame of mind Whereas his viewpoint was often orten confused and his rebellion a silent one be he now saw timings thIngs wIth witha a dreadful clarity lie He was vocal lie told the subway guard that ere erelong erelong erelong long those who cheerfully wore the livery Ih-ery of oppressing capitalists would he be offered the opportunity to revolt re It If they refused they would world toll to in deep taints mines abject serfs of an aD When th the lie liveried elevator eh starter lit at the apartment house In Intercepted n Mr Sir and desired to know his business the saw In this precaution only another of the tyranny of the rich and when after ufler some delay he lie was shown Into his em players player's rooms roans he lie was overripe 0 for speech The girl who opened the thedoor thedoor I door looked nt at him him coldly as she de de- demanded mantled his Ilia nil name me Tell Is here I be said loudl loudly A I I asked your name nn not what you wire wre she retorted Sly My Jy name Is Adolf and and Hanby has lias to see mp ma maat at once I He lie was shown Into a small room which led lert as Investigation proved pro to toD toa toa D a Ja gallery lIery running along ailing one side of the apartment Below nelo film him was vas arr a Il i 4 I I- I V rr J il f II r 7 l 1 I Il NIl Aw N What Do I Get Gt for This Not a aDd aDd D-d D d 1 Im I'm Out a Dinner spacious room drawing room Through on no arched opening could s see a party of out diners Dining and It was wat past nine o'clock I 1 This then was what a duplex apartment meant The had never ne been quite sure reo They sere re certain only that hat It was a symptom of the criminal extravagance of the un untaxed untaxed taxed rich won woo at the cost of ot the workers Old here Hanby ex exclaimed claimed Are you sure lie turned to his Ills wife Dina do you hear har that from the office e Is here odious ollion little man maul I Well he wont won't mind walling wailing until we have hate finished hed You'd het helter betler I er send him thin D a or something You cant can't leu leave e us Just jest as a you you are going golm to spring thIs tills great surprise turned to one lint nf or the the servants Mary ask Sir Mr to tn he kind enough to wall wait lint and ask ash If It hed he'd like a cocktail See If It he will leave len a 8 me message Mr Sir Smacker looked at the greedily Some Sume day pretty girls lik like this Iris one In neat black and white bring him coI cocktails when he thirsted d lout hilI the they should not sneer ut 1 him If they sneered they should he lashed Sir Mr Ir oaks asks you OU to tn wilt walt Mary Iary Sloan not softening the blow lIes iles busy husy They're There In the middle or of dinner runner Al At 1 half past nine I I Mr Ir Mocker ker I h hp hI wont won't he through h As yet Ur do you vint 1111 to 10 s send nd n a message No Nol I the the min man roar roared rt I 1 wont won't r I 1 will not 1 t Tell hlin and hIs wi wife fe I come on a IJ ilia mallet r It Por of o Ii and f on and l death Tell him to len lease til hl Noon hoon for a I moment and he be will twill so go back t lo In them u s saddened man I 1 With II h tile the possible exception vI Adolph hud Imd not an ellem enemy In P o P world Ills adored him and his help heip remained removed remo by y or h Mary hurried back She he was Ir ester c tell In n I the he announcement III hot lu-i em waS to male make lie lip was on his bla feet teet when she ate reached the rhe dining room Family and friends l I he began hean Best Dest of families best of ot friends I II I 1 stand before you tonight at the ripe age of or four and ond forty I have e not Dot only nn an announcement to make make-I make I J have ha coo con con have hn also n a confession my name from even my wire wife You have hitherto known me as plain Milton Hilton nanby Hanby his wile wIfe Not ot exactly plain laughed I 1 could never have mar mar- married ried a plain man I murmured J 1 Best of wives I es I he have hn deceived you Almost half balf a drown mother was century ago ngo my IllS In one of our picturesque rIvers A handsome stranger sprang In and 1011 rescued d her tier Later they were mar married tied ried and her first son fon she called 11 II cd hythe hy by hythe bythe the name of that flint tim superb stream My My true name Is Housatonic Hilton mlton Loan hy by At AI school chool I 1 I tuns known ns as Tonic At At college ollege they thY called me Tony When I 1 married I dropped the nam name be be- because became I cause came my wife was ns from Cleveland mind would not have hn understood To fo Tonight Tonight night I I resume It ft publicly There are reasons I am now lord of the I 1 have territorial obligations 1111 manor nor Boys nOS and girls 1 I have hn hl been n n ti hard worker and I 1 e hate prospered Fit Fifteen teen years ago ao when I was young In the lie woolen business I took In payment of a bad debt sixty awes arres of land near Los An Angeles cles And And youve you've struck oil there there 7 asked Cella his Ills eldest daughter this o No this Is a true story I have subdivided what was formerly a aro ro rocky Infested goat hill hili It II Is now as ns the queen of hillsIde residential parks Dream on 00 I 1 said Junior son who was a n Yale sophomore and therefore given I en to doubting the en of his elders No o dream my but buta a fact I I have the money Half Bait of It I 1 have spent tills thIs afternoon Know now beloved helo ones that loaf I have hll realized the of n Il lifetime About a hundred miles away near the peace peace- peaceful peaceful peaceful ful village of Pine line Plains Housa Housa- Housatonic Housatonic tonic II n owns a n lordly estate In this tills historic home this feudal fastness lie he will dispense nse hospitality of the sort his position entails On Ills his private golf golt course his bis friends will pry gobs of turf from their beds ns as they now do weekly at nt Wykagyl and Garden City On his bis tennIs courts grass s and concrete his bis chil chil- children chil- chil children children dren will play under his bis able tute tute- tutelage tutelage lu lage e until they go in n triumph to For For- Forest Forest est III Hills II s There Sir Housatonic hasa has a Inke wherein bass and trout await the lie anglers fly There his bis children will find a swimming pool not pool not yet built which however however which will make malte tile the hest lest that and Hollywood hn tare ye to offer olTer look like frog ponds pond Oh dad dadi I Cella Celia cried Is thIs real or do we wake up now r f fIn rIn In answer he passed photographs around The Gray bouse house was a 8 fact not a 11 mere hope Wonderful 1 I said Mrs Sirs Bishop one of Dinas Dina's close friends But Hut the help problem In n D thirty room house louse is appalling You wont won't get anyone any one oneto oneto to stay Mary Alary Bonby called out The girl was arranging glasses In the anteroom You beard heard what Ive I've ve bl been n saying Mary Mury flushed a little I 1 1 couldn't help It sir she apolo apolo- apologized apologized apologized Go and ask the others If It they'll come to the Gray Gruy house They come said Mary eagerly Ask them theta Mrs Sirs Bishop com com- commanded New v York help Ip simply hates the country W We tried It out und and we know Mur Mary dune Clime back crazy to go sir I 1 dont don't know how v you OU do It said Mrs Bishop Its easy eusy said We Ve treat enl em as If they were human Hanby started storied us as u a strange but somehow familiar voice broke In They e gate u feast the night hl tie fore he- he tore nt I shouted tet the vole voice l from the distant balcony Its hoot Hint thicker Marker Mary said The Idea Iden I 1 81 corrected I had forgotten nil all him liim Toll fell him Ill I'll be there In u II moment nt lies Hes Jot gut his Ills neri rl n e el I I Junior the people who gate ga the feast before Waterloo won the bat lie Dud Dael I 1 hale Imie That noon I I wl h you'd tire hire him hi III Whenever er I RO go u to tolie tolie th lie ollile lie Ile tries to head bead me Fromm seeing you ion Oll tie lie wl wishes he to tu save me rile money said rising Mary descended on lUder l He lie was conscious that Ills t 1 superiority was sl lo-sl on lieu In la the lie slangy expressive 1 e ot of her class she slie gate ga e Her oer opinion of nf him no TO BE nG |