HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY BEQUEST OF WINWARD PRESCOTT JANUARY 27, 1933 COPYRIGHT, 1874, BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO. T 66 FRIEND of mine, who is a man of letters and a philosopher, said to me one day, as if between jest and earnest, Fancy! since we last met I have discovered a haunted house in the midst of London." "Really haunted? and by what, - ghosts ? " "Well, I can't answer these questions; all I know is this: six weeks ago I and my wife were in search of a furnished apartment. Passing a quiet street, we saw on the window of one of the houses a bill, Apartments Furnished.' The situation suited us; we entered the house, liked the rooms, engaged them by the week, and left them the third day. No power on earth could have reconciled my wife to stay longer; and I don't wonder at it." "What did you see?" "Excuse me; I have no desire to be ridiculed as a superstitious dreamer, nor, on the other hand, could I ask you to accept on my affirmation what you would |