The House 'Round the Corner
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Tracy Louis. The House 'Round the Corner
CHAPTER I. WHEREIN THE HOUSE RECEIVES A NEW TENANT
CHAPTER II. SHOWING HOW EVEN A HOUSE MAY HAVE A WAY OF ITS OWN
CHAPTER III. A MIDNIGHT SEANCE
CHAPTER IV. SHOWING HOW EXPLANATIONS DO NOT ALWAYS EXPLAIN
CHAPTER V. GATHERING CLOUDS
CHAPTER VI. THE STORM BREAKS
CHAPTER VII. A FAINT-HEARTED ALLY
CHAPTER VIII. WHEREIN PERCY WHITTAKER PROVES HIMSELF A MAN OF ACTION
CHAPTER IX. SHOWING THE REAL STRENGTH OF AN ILLUSION
CHAPTER X. ARMATHWAITE STATES A CASE
CHAPTER XI. PREPARATIONS FOR BATTLE
CHAPTER XII. THE DAWN OF A BLACK FRIDAY
CHAPTER XIII. DEUS EX MACHINA
CHAPTER XIV. IN WHICH THE AREA WIDENS
CHAPTER XV. THE LAYING OF THE GHOST
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While Walker was fiddling with the lock, not being quite sure as to the right key, Armathwaite had eyed the southern landscape. Elmdale was six hundred feet above sea level, and the Grange stood fully a hundred feet higher than the village, so a far-flung panorama of tillage, pasture, and woodland provided a delightful picture on that glorious June day. To the north, he knew, stretched miles of wild moor, and the heather began where the spacious garden ended. A glance at the map in the Walkers' office had shown that this bleak waste was crossed by mere tracks, marked in the dotted lines which motorists abhor. Indeed, the very road leading to the house was not macadamized beyond the gate; two years of disuse had converted even the stone-covered portion into a sort of meadow, because grass, the sulkiest of vegetables in a well-tended lawn, will grow luxuriantly on a granite wall if left alone.
Truly, Elmdale seemed to be at the end of the world – the world of Yorkshire, at any rate – and Robert Armathwaite found its aspect pleasing. A lock clicked; he turned, and entered a domain he was now fully resolved to make his own.
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"You don't mean that you're going to stay here straightaway, sir?" he cried.
"Yes. I came prepared for immediate occupation. That is why I brought my bag, and some groceries."
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