The Haunted Room: A Tale. A. L. O. E.

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       A. L. O. E.

      The Haunted Room: A Tale

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4057664609557

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       Preface.

       THE HAUNTED ROOM.

       CHAPTER I. A PLEASANT HOME.

       CHAPTER II. COMING TO A DECISION.

       CHAPTER III. GOSSIP DOWNSTAIRS.

       CHAPTER IV. PREPARING TO START.

       CHAPTER V. HAUNTED ROOMS.

       CHAPTER VI. THREE WARNINGS.

       CHAPTER VII. MISTRUST.

       CHAPTER VIII. THE JOURNEY.

       CHAPTER IX. NEW ACQUAINTANCE.

       CHAPTER X. A FAINT HEART.

       CHAPTER XI. EVENING AND MORNING.

       CHAPTER XII. THE STRANGER.

       CHAPTER XIII. WORK.

       CHAPTER XIV. EARLY IMPRESSIONS.

       CHAPTER XV. THE FIRST VISIT.

       CHAPTER XVI. TRY AGAIN.

       CHAPTER XVII. CARES AND MISTAKES.

       CHAPTER XVIII. YES OR NO.

       CHAPTER XIX. THE ECLIPSE.

       CHAPTER XX. AN ALARM.

       CHAPTER XXI. INDECISION.

       CHAPTER XXII. THE HAUNTED CHAMBER.

       CHAPTER XXIII. DEATH.

       CHAPTER XXIV. A MISTAKE.

       CHAPTER XXV. STRANGE TIDINGS.

       CHAPTER XXVI. THE WEAK ONE.

       CHAPTER XXVII. A NIGHT-JOURNEY.

       CHAPTER XXVIII. THE BROTHERS’ MEETING.

       CHAPTER XXIX. CHARGED WITH FELONY.

       CHAPTER XXX. TREMBLING IN THE BALANCE.

       CHAPTER XXXI. CHANGES.

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      It is under peculiar circumstances that A. L. O. E. sends forth this little volume. As it is passing through the press its author is preparing to enter on a new field of labour in the East, as an honorary member of the Zenana Mission in India. Of the fact that the missionary cause has been dear to A. L. O. E. her readers may be aware from her former writings. She now hopes to be permitted to devote an evening hour of her life to that cause. India is endeared to her from family associations; for there a revered father, and subsequently his sons, lived and laboured, and in that land rests the dust of dear ones who sleep in Jesus.

      If there be, as she fain would hope, something of a tie between a writer and those familiar with her works, may not A. L. O. E. venture to claim an interest in the prayers of her readers? May she not hope that they will ask for her, wisdom, humility, zeal, and success? It would be sweet to one struggling with the difficulty of learning a new language to know that many joined in the supplication, “O Lord! open Thou her lips, that her mouth may shew forth Thy praise!” and that many besought Him whose strength is made perfect in weakness, to enable His servant to win Indian gems to lay at His feet.

      A. L. O. E.

THE HAUNTED ROOM.

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CHAPTER I.

       A PLEASANT HOME.

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      “A pleasant nest my brother-in-law has found for his family,” said Captain Arrows to himself, as, carpet-bag in hand, he walked the brief distance from a railway-station to his relative’s house. “Trevor’s home is near enough to London for its inmates to reach Charing-Cross by train in fifteen minutes, and yet far enough from it to be beyond reach of its smoke and noise. Not quite so,” added the captain as he passed a Savoyard with hurdy-gurdy and monkey, and then was overtaken by an omnibus well filled within and without; “but I doubt if our young folk would have relished perfect rural seclusion, or would have wished to have dwelt