Show what the gray house hid T tie lie mystery malery of a Ha haunted mansion iv by wyndham martyn NV M N 11 service copyright by wyndham THE STORY allton hanby rous new york merc merchant hunt has ha purchased haseA a country ethe oray dray house near ine ina plains miss bliss Se lenoa lenos a former tenant ot of the arny hobie palle at his offles find warns warna him that the lie house to in under a curse further alarming details are upon ado adolf secretary by a man who claims to have been for sir stanford sey mour former occupant of the place I 1 CHAPTER I 1 continued 2 julius lits caesar caio sar was a small flimin op 11 tie e kulil i fly antich to tits his hosts so was napoleon so S la Is lloyd george gi arye lie hunt hent over uie the tuble table as it if III hurting a so BO crot so was waa the gnaster of thein all my idol lerion air Si touched tits his receding forehead duh a latIc gesture turo dont he be cause you ure fire twice na as big that you can me herel here I 1 again he be smote his bis brow all right said the other Vacil leallY benny leonnrd leonard aint a bis big man alit binl I 1 guess ties hes pretty guild good so wits the baby that steered block black sand und and won oue iron men inen for duddy daddy you vou ba where you are boduy if you K got I 1 lie file gray kautter utter ta siy do you he be in fit hit tinted houses tio uaea 1 1 dont belleve believe in haunted houses asserted nor tn in the lie im mortality of tic lite soul im uway muy be yond that flint religious butikis 1 I belleve lit in haunted houses when I 1 went up there with mr seymour I 1 was waa like you con cancelled celled botte bone headed I 1 thought I 1 knew it nil all and then ariae tile the stranger tind bad a cold find coni compelling eye lie lucked looked at air tn in a way thul that Us tits veiled polled many of tile the secre tile the orles oi its lie he lemiel it dined uw over elie table its hie and dandy to hold them thein bel bellelis lefis when you aint been put nit to the test tea 1 I 1 I 1 dunt dont iet get you iu stilt mr er el irritably you will suld said the other 1 I 1 used to be for mr sey mour up at tile the only house ills tal t tw al kids died up there theres it aulse on hut fiat pluite ite the mau that lind it birone lost tits hla wife afe nothing hie file matter with her ter until she went up to dutchess county bo theres me thing tit in the luke there flint mils calls pro peo pie to it tile the man aho vho ho liml had it altet and me lite was warned burned spy suld said he went there tilt tits his own ill say Seyl ll clr was square about tog him well sir air that ninn wits found drimped in that dd lule luke the doktors und a thing the mutter except lie he v tip dri drowned its a had piave to lle live in I 1 kni N AI I 1 I 1 wits there for two ye veirs a rs the stran stranger a to t it 11 whis pet per yuu you feel like people ure tire watching you ull fill thu tho little lie went tilt oil when you wit niile ke up ulo you iou think theres pw ava ale ut at the tool fool of your avd ital lin you switch tin on tile the light it seems like you null theto kolik away u of tile tall lull or of your wr ese eie the rhe help aoto aul stay there they know I 1 mr ir he a a lurd tit or now brou broun glit lit out lt on n old t ook cools from KIK faig lund she beut bugli mise from ahn w silo she dt do you expect tw tilt to believe liam Sni ucLer haild no nit arild the other yuu you aint I got the to t mr air may all I 1 risk you to fit aln it you vuirl to ito ke kep keep p ciui juh la IS tu to in m und pre liliu illin frolia dithing ili ills nat lly ur ulo there collve tol to live lve bill erly resettled tile the tures on tits bilu hf ll bluh uh ot anany cutting bilings ti ito suy tul but words did nut not colne easily ills 1119 baitin aln abed with still born speeches aate a time hp galb 6 ert ed lila ills wits together it amoun to this tie he said you wani nie to wara haab before its ita too late inte 1 I 1 dont donl give a d n yuu you do or na returned tile lie st ive got it ort oil tn iny it 1 you winit want them tt ti ra i to thelt lle lelli alli its up tit to you any cuir taking lit his fai fantilly tilly thre thore th re Is kilting killing em lost just us rs much itch us its it I 1 tie he feil vm em strychnine in their amilt what do I 1 get fiet ani of this not a rt 0 thing im out nut a dinner kimt sald la is your own im no piker sald the other oilier hey pat fat bring a couple tit tin in rogars ant that morgan sn inkes hint anif smile black coffee my bly friend here luia has ini art bite ante CHAPTER 11 at nine mr outside me gothic eat entrance rai nee us of the C building where nilton hilton hanby main tattled a duplex apartment mr aft was in an unusual frame of n ad whereas his viewpoint was often confused end and his rebellion a a silent III en t one he be now saw things with a dreadful clarity ue lie was aneal llo told the subway guard that ere long those who cheerfully wore the livery of oppressing capitalists would be offered the opportunity to revolt if they refused they would toll foil to in deep mines abject serfs of on an emancipated proletariat when the liveried elevator elo shartel nt tile alie hanby apart apartment went house in mr air and desired to know his business tile the weehawken Wee hawken philosopher saw in this precaution only another instance of the lie tyranny of the rich and when after some delay he ha was shown into hla file employers pl rooms he was overripe for speech sp OLph the girl who opened the door looked at him coldly us she de ni arwIed hs name yell tell fluney Is here beret I 1 he be loudly A 1 I asked your nguie not what you were slie she retorted aly name Is adolt adolf and flateby tins has to see me nt oncel once I 1 lie was shown into a room arnom which leil led is as investigation proved to a gallery running along one side of tho the apartment 11 below him was a y what do I 1 got get for this not a 0 d im out a dinner spacious drawing room through an arched opening could see sec a party of diners dining and it was past nine I 1 this then was what a duplex apartment meant the ers find never aeeti quite sure eure they were vere cottain acci tain only that it wua a symptom of the criminal extravagance of the un tin taxed rich won at the cost of the he workers old St here allanby ex claimed are aee you sarel sure lie to tits his wife dina do you hoir than Si from tile lie office odice Is here that tant odious little man I 1 well he wont mind walting until we have finished better seni send bilm a or something you cant leave us just na as you tire re going to spring i ills great surprise dinn turned to one if f the lie arnts blary ask mr air her to ie he kind enough to wall an aind ask if hod like a cocktail cock tall see if f tie he will leave a 8 n i e sst t i g e nir mr looked n fit the greedily some day pretty girls le tills this one in nent hank tin nd white should bring him c cherf hp he thirsted hut but they should not sneer ut at him it if they sneered they should he be lorhea mr asks you yiu 0 to o 1 ilar simin slann nt not s tile blow aliw ilos bazy in the llie middle if gillims r at half past nine fillip Thi ita whit what I 1 mr air pr sunn ker Sn I 1 As aa tie he wont tit thris yet vet im lille mr stow do lit vim want ti st saml 1141 it 1114 Is not no I 1 tle tile dmn fill n roared 1 I I 1 will noti MI bill 1 I his III wife virt I 1 cottle un toll it ii lit lift onil donth tell litin to belive til hon boon rr n und tit he will iv iro bliek hiu lt 14 t libin thell it linin I 1 the possible e tet letlon ul dalh di lh 1101 nol tin till 0 winy III I 1 A world adored ilir fd him antio his help reina little until hy by or it bentti murn hurried back she vas inar ested in the lie tier her eta ein was about to balce he wits en his feet when aho abo reached tb tbt dining room ramify family and friends friend st f he began best beat of fau families tilles best beat of friends I 1 I 1 bland before you tonight at the ripe age of four and forty I 1 have bavo not only an announcement to make I 1 have also a confession I 1 have concealed my aaroe from even my axy wife you have hitherto known me as plain allton hanby not exactly plain ht if la wife laughed 1 I could never have war married a plain maul cost best of wives 1 he murmured 1 I have deceived you almost halt half a century ugo ago my mother was waa drown ing in anone one of our picturesque rivers A handsome stranger sprang in ind find rescued tier her later they were roar mar ofed and her first eon so if she called by the name of tant superb stream my true name Is housatonic hilton had elan hy by at school I 1 was known as tonic at colleg ethey called me tony when I 1 married 1 dropped the name be caime my wife was waa from cleveland i am air i night I 1 resume it publicly there tire reasons I 1 am now lord of the ninnor I 1 have territorial obligations boys boya and girls I 1 have been a hard worker and I 1 have prospered fifteen years rears ago when I 1 was young in the woolen business I 1 took in n payment of a bad debt sixty cres acres of band near los ioa angeles and youve struck oil thre therel asked cella tits his eldest daughter no this la is a true story I 1 have subdivided what was formerly a borky goat gonan tested infested hill it Is now wildwood wood famous na as the queen of hillside residential parks dream ont on I 1 sald junior Ilan hys sun suit who vins w ns a yale sophomore and therefore given to doubting the en thula sms of his elders no dream my worthless lad ind but a facil I 1 have the money half of it I 1 have spent tills this afternoon know beloved oem that I 1 have realized the lie ambitious ambitions oi of a lifetime about a hundred miles away near the peace fill village of pine plains housatonic LI hanby owns owna a lordly estate in this historic home this feudal fastness he will dispense hospitality of the sort his position entails on his private golf course his alenda friends will pry gobs of turf from their beds beda as they now do weekly at find and garden city on his tennis courts grass and concrete hla his children wilt will play under his able tutelage lage inell they go in triumph to forest hills there sir Hoti housatonic tc has baa a lake wherein bass and trout await tile the ani anglers fers fly dy there his children will find a swimming pool not yet built however which will make the he best that pasadena and hollywood have to offer took like ilke frog ponds oh dud I 1 cella cried Is this real or do we wake up bowl in answer he passed photographs around the gray house was a 01 fact not a mere hope wonderful I 1 said mrs airs bishop one of dinas close friends but the help problem in a thirty room house Is ap pollIng you wont get any one to stay Al mary aryl I 1 hanby called out the girl was arran glug glasses in the antero anteroom oln you beard what ive bew betm saying mary blary flushed a little 1 I 1 help it str sir she apologized go and ask the others othera if they come to tile the gray house bouse 1 Ti eyll come said mary eagerly ea gury ask thorn them mrs airs bishop commanded new york help simply hates the country we tried it out und we know mary alary came back crazy to go sir air 1 I flint dont know how bow you do it said mrs M rs its easy suld said hanby we treat vm em as it if they were human as a strange but somehow famil JU r vo voice fee broke I 1 in n they gave a feast the night before shouted the voice trout from the distant its that blucker mary filary said the rhe idea V hitney 1 I 11 hui forgotten rui gotten ull all shout him tell him ill be there y in it a moment lies hes gut his bervel nerve 1 sald said junior alfides iv lf asides Ides the people heuple who gave the roust before waterloo won the but ou pad I 1 hate that mant I 1 wish tire fire hlin him winever Wm Mi never enever I 1 go to the lit ollive lie be tries to head late bie off froll fruia set setting ing you lie ho to save me money 11 li hunly antly rising mary descended wrathfully OR OB tie lie wits was cou selous unit that mf bis intellectual wua lust lost un on tier her in file he expressive i tier her class site she gave Sti iucker alet tie opinion of him TO BE 80 continued |