![]() ![]() Some mornings it was a dull (almost Indian) red, then it would be vermilion, then a rich purple, and once when they came down for family prayers, according to the simple rites of the Free American Reformed Episcopalian Church, they found it a bright emerald-green. The chameleon-like colour, also, of the stain excited a good deal of comment. Otis, and the windows kept closely barred. This certainly was very strange, as the door was always locked at night by Mr. It would be quite impossible to sleep, with such a noise going on outside the bedrooms."įor the rest of the week, however, they were undisturbed, the only thing that excited any attention being the continual renewal of the blood-stain on the library floor. "Upon the other hand," he continued, "if he really declines to use the Rising Sun Lubricator, we shall have to take his chains from him. "I have no wish," he said, "to do the ghost any personal injury, and I must say that, considering the length of time he has been in the house, I don't think it is at all polite to throw pillows at him" - a very just remark, at which, I am sorry to say, the twins burst into shouts of laughter. The United States Minister was naturally a little annoyed to find that his present had not been accepted. The next morning when the Otis family met at breakfast, they discussed the ghost at some length. ![]()
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