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Luggage? I only had one suitcase and one overnight bag College tuition had left me with very little left over for clothes or shoes

For a moment, I put aside my Hawthorne tree experience and stared at the castle Oh, but it was undeniably nificent

I moved forward over the flat blue-stone steps and hesitated to take another moment to admire

The architecture was exquisite, and I iined all the history the stone walls held within, as well as around the grounds

The building was ned with lovely fairy-tale turrets The tings, which flanked the arched front doors to the Keep, were partially and beautifully covered with ivy The Keep was three stories high At the roof of the Keep was a battlement that stretched to a whis were designed much the same, and the whole affect had me in awe

Everywhere I looked, there were flowering vines attractively adorning huge, dark wooden posts, and arched hideaways

Everything spoke of ancient, yet it was obvious that it had been lovingly restored and reat pains to rity

Daniel eyed ht then, miss?”

He was elderly and dear, with shocks of white hair protruding from his wool peaked cap, and this made me smile

“Yes, oh yes”

“Then ye aren’t worried, are ye? Shouldna be People talk and say how MacLeod is haunted because of…well, I dinnae think any ghost will bother ye” He smiled kindly

“A ghost? No, I hadn’t heard that I didn’t read that anywhere in its write-up either” I was ihost “How great is that!”

He laughed “Do ye believe in ghosts, miss?”

“Of course, doesn’t everyone?” I save him an enormous tip, I could afford it now

He thanked me, but there wasn’t tiot my first view of the Great Hall