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forbore, at present, to ask her any questions; but the faculty of speech

was never long with-held from Annette, and she explained, in broken

sentences, and in her tedious way, the occasion of her disorder She

affirered

the incredulity of E to her bedrooe stories of that chamber before,' said Annette:

'but as it was so near yours, ma'amselle, I would not tell thehten you The servants had told me, often and

often, that it was haunted, and that was the reason why it was shut up:

nay, for thatof these rooms, here, are

shut up I quaked whenever I went by, and I must say, I did sometimes

think I heard odd noises within it But, as I said, as I was passing

along the corridor, and not thinking a word about the nors heard the other night, all of a

sudden co behind ure, (I saw it as plainly, liding along (Oh! I cannot describe how!) into the room,

that is always shut up, and nobody has the key of it but the Signor, and

the door shut directly'