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Show EXISTED ONLY IN FANCY. Hawthorne's "House of the Seven Cables" a Myth. A cousin of the Into Nathaniel Hawthorne, Haw-thorne, who lltea In Bnlem, says there never was a House of tho Heven SaMea In that town. Iln tells the llofton Journal that "Hawthorne came down to visit mo anortly before bis death, and we rambled about tho old hatinta of his early days. I was particular par-ticular to ask him to point out, If he could, the fatnoira House of the Seven Uables, because at that tlmo the controversy con-troversy eiistrn In some degree. "'There never was any.' waa hla Immediate reply to me. 'I never bad any particular house In my mind whon I wrote the story. It waa Just a fancy of my own.' " |