CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
[I. ]Wherein the House Receives a New Tenant 1
[II. ]Showing How Even a House May Have a Way of Its Own 21
[III. ]A Midnight Seance 42
[IV. ]Showing How Explanations Do Not Always Explain 63
[V. ]Gathering Clouds 84
[VI. ]The Storm Breaks 106
[VII. ]A Faint-Hearted Ally 127
[VIII. ]Wherin Percy Whittaker Proves Himself a Man of Action 147
[IX. ]Showing the Real Strength of an Illusion 167
[X. ]Armathwaite States a Case 185
[XI. ]Preparations for Battle 206
[XII. ]The Dawn of a Black Friday 226
[XIII. ]Deus ex Machina 246
[XIV. ]In Which the Area Widens 267
[XV. ]The Laying of the Ghost 287

CHAPTER I