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"Your ancestral hoan observed, as the car turned the first bend in the grass-grown avenue and Doht "Damned fine house, too!"

His co the last few ed his hat over his eyes and turned his coat collar up to his ears The house, with its great double front, was now clearly visible--the time-worn, Elizabethan, red brick outline that faced the park southwards, and the stone-supported, grim and weather-stained back which confronted the an continued to make aht, somehow or other," he said, "and I don't think you'll miss the ti woods"

"Any fro his head

"Not a stump," he replied, "and for a very excellent reason Not one of the woodo near the place"

"The superstition reers are absolutely rabid about it There are at least a dozen who declare that they have seen the ghost of Roger Unthank, and a score or more ill swear by all that is holy that they have heard his call at night"

"Does he still select the park and the terrace outside the house for his ht perambulations?" Dominey enquired

The lawyer hesitated

"The idea is, I believe," he said, "that the ghost makes his way out from the wood and sits on the terrace underneath Lady Dominey'sAll bunkum, of course, but I can assure you that every servant and caretaker we've had there has given notice within a month That is the sole reason why I haven't ventured to recoet rid of Mrs Unthank"

"She is still in attendance upon Lady Doet any one else to stay there," the lawyer explained, "and her ladyship positively declines to leave the Hall Between ourselves, I think it's tie was made We'll have a chat after dinner, if you've no objection--You see, we've left all the trees in the park," he went on, with an air of satisfaction "Beautiful place, this, in the springtiht, and I never saw such buttercups in my life The cows here were almost up to their knees in pasture, and the bluebells in the ho colony down at Flankney turned the"