CONTENTS
CHAPTER I—HOW I CAME TO THE PINES
CHAPTER II—SOMETHING IN THE HOUSE
CHAPTER V—“NOT IN THE DAYTIME, MA'AM”
CHAPTER VI—A STRAND OF RED-GOLD HAIR
CHAPTER VII—THE RUSSIAN BOOK-SHELVES
CHAPTER VIII. A DANGEROUS GAME
CHAPTER XV—THE SECRET OF THE KITCHEN CLOSET
CHAPTER XVI—THE WITCH OF THE WALL
CHAPTER XIX—SKANE'S CLEVEREST MAN
IT is the discomfort of the thing which comes back upon me, I believe, most forcibly. Of course it was horrible, too, emphatically horrible, but the prolonged, sustained, baffling discomfort of my position is what has left the mark. The growing suspicion, the uncanny circumstances, my long knowledge of that presen