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What the Gray House Hid
THE STORY
Hilton Hanby has purchased a
country place—the Gray house,
near Pine Plains. Miss Selenos,
a former tenant, warns him that
the house is under a curse.
Further alarming details are im¬
pressed upon Adolf Smucker
Hanby’s secretary, by a man who
claims to have been chauffeur for
Sir Stanford Seymour, former oc¬
cupant of the place. The Han
bys laugh off the warnings. But
they are shocked when they hear
that the caretaker of the Gray
house, a man named Kerr, has
been mysteriously murdered.
Hanby consults his friend Pel¬
ham. The family starts for the
new home. Appleton, a clerk of
Douglas and Smith, the agents
from whom Hanby bought the
Gray house, explains to Pelham,
that a dangerous pond near tne
house, in which several children
have been drowned, has since
been filled in, but he urges Pel¬
ham to dissuade Hanby from oc¬
cupying the Gray house. Hanby
and Junior learn that the care¬
taker was known to the police
as "Red Chapin" and had a bad
record. Hanby considers asking
Leslie Barron, long an admirer
of Celia, to Join the house party.
Mrs. Hanby declares she likes the
house. Pelham becomes a mem
ner of the household, with the
official title of "house detective.”
Over the telephone Hanby is
warned by a woman not to sub¬
ject his family to the dangers of
the Gray house. Leslie Barron
arrives making four able-bodied
members of the Hanby house¬
hold. A phone call from a man
who declares he is an old ac¬
quaintance of Hanby’s and in¬
terested in ornithology, but
wnom Hanby cannot identify,
urges him to preserve a part of
the grounds as a bird sanctuary.
The idea appeals to Hanby and
he makes the promise. The Han
bys take possession of the Gray
house.
CHAPTER V—Continued
—9—
"BUI,” slip said, “you must be fond
of the llanb.v clan to do this. I’oor
old Bill!” she murmured softly.
“Why poor?” he demanded.
“1 know,” she said wisely. “You
can’t foot me.”
“I’m not poor,” Me retorted. “I’m
rich. 1 have a family without the
labor of supporting It. I’m much
more sensible than you Imagine. 1
adore your mother. She married the
man she loved. Three tilings might
have happened to me—I might have
married another woman, and made
her unhappy; 1 might have become
one of those sour, cynical old devils
who poison this earth; I might have
drunk myself to death. I thought of
doing all three at various times. I
did try drinking for a year, but Dina
made me feel like a d—d coward. I
am now going to use some of your
modern terms. 1 sublimated my love
Into affection for everything that was
dear to your mother. That’s why I
bear your superior airs with cheer¬
fulness. That’s why l talk baseball
scores with Tim.”
“You love baseball,” said Celia.
“1 love you,” retorted Pelham.
“About four years ago—the summer
we had a house at Allenhurst—I cher¬
ished a hopeless passion for you,”
Celia confided. “It began when you
used to do those fancy back dives at
the Allenhurst pool, and was 'fanned
to fury when you rescued that man
from the surf. Did you ever sus¬
pect It?”
“Not a bit,” he said. “Mine is an
open, modest nature, shrinking and
simple. You interest me strangely,
Celia. Why did you drop me?”
“1 went back to school,” she said,
“and there was an adorable being who
taught us music. I wanted to prac¬
tice Beethoven ten hours a da.v.”
“Why did you drop him?”
“He was sent away for kissing a
teacher— or, rather, for being caught
kissing a teacher. After that l.es
rather amused me. I was then an
emotionally old woman of seventeen.”
"Are. you really fond of Les?” asked
Pelham.
“I wish 1 knew!”
“I thought one always knew.”
“Not In these times,” said Celia.
"One meets so many boys. Les is on
probation this summer. What about
a swim before breakfast? There’s a
gorgeous high dive into twenty feet
of water. I want to beat Junior at
back diving. Please, Bill, give me a
lesson!”
“You’ll have to make it right with
Dina,” he said. “I’m hoe man in
chief, and I want to keep my job.”
“Dina and dad will be there before
you, if you don’t make haste.”
“What? Taking advantage of me
like that? I’ll be in my bathing suit
before you are!”
The two raced toward the house.
The swimming party was not ready
for breakfast until half past nine.
The meal was hardly begun when a
package of mail was brought in.
“I’m going to send a postboy on
horseback for it, when things are in
running order,” Hanby commented,
sorting it out. “Tradesmen’s invita¬
tions, mainly. Here’s one from a
Poughkeepsie undertaker, with most
attractive illustrations of the latest
In caskets.”
Next he held up a large square en
velope, lavender-colored, and adorned
with a black coat of arms.
“Budieigb Salterton,” he read. “1
didn’t tell you. Dina, that 1 wrote to
Mr. Seymour weeks ago, asking if be
had a chauffeur like the one Smucker
described.” Hanby frowned a little
“It’s odd that bis reply should come
on our first breakfast here!”
“What does he say?” Dina asked.
Hanby slit the envelope.
"In the center is a crest,” he com¬
mented. “Underneath is a simple
CLEVELAND COURIER.
The "Mystery o£ a
Haunted Mansion.
— 'Ey —
Wyndfoam Martyn
W. N. U. Service
Copyright by Wyndham Martyn
English address. Listen! ‘Seymour
Manor, Bovey-Tracey, Ottery St.
Mary, Budleigh Salterton, Devon¬
shire.’ That makes the Cray house
fade into nothing! On the top left
hand corner it says, ‘Telegraph, Ot
terton.’ On the top right-hand corner
it says, ‘Great Western station, four
miles.’ ”
This was the missive that Hanby
read aloud:
“HILTON HANBY, ESQ.,
"My Dear Sir:
"Owing to a fishing trip In Norway
my answer to your letter has been
unavoidably delayed.
“During my stay in your country
my chauffeur was the one now in my
service, Richard Betterton. He is five
feet nine In height, weighs one hun¬
dred and forty pounds, is dark, pale
of face, with an aquiline nose—in fact,
as you see, in every respect differing
from the impostor who claimed to
have held this position.
"I am, my dear sir,
"Faithfully yours,
"STANFORD SEYMOUR.”
“1 resign as hoe man.” Bill Pel¬
ham said. “1 am now the house de¬
tective. i report for work here and
"If He’s a Salesman,” Hanby Reflect,
ed, "I'm Gone.”
now. i guessed wrong ■ bout the big
hearted chauffeur who blew Smucker
to a feed!”
Hanby was worried. He had al
most banished the affair from his
mind. Now everything came back to
him vividly, particularly the woman
who threatened him with death.
“Well, we’re dug in here now,” he
observed, "and it will take something
more than vague threats to turn us
out.”
CHAPTER VI
There was a letter for Mrs. Hanby
In the package of mail.
“Who’s been writing to you, Dina?”
her husband Inquired.
“The Parkers. They’ve been want¬
ing to come here, hut I told them we
weren’t asking any one till we had
got used to the place. It would spoil
it to have any outsiders yet.. I shall
be finding new wonders every min
ute for a month. Besides, we have
no saddle horses yet, and Julia is
mad about riding. That reminds me
that I must order a habit, and a side
saddle.”
Hanby was still thinking of the
mysterious warnings.
“It’s funny,” lie remarked present¬
ly, “that any one should take the
trouble to feed Smucker for nothing.
There must be something behind it.”
“Junior and 1 will find out,” said
Bill. “It’s beneath the dignity of the
lord of the manor to sleuth.”
“The first letter I opened,” contin¬
ued Hanby, pursuing his train of
thought, “was from an undertaker
noted for the simplicity and dignity
of his funerals. He includes flowers.
That’s thoughtful! The next was
from Seymour. Perhaps ) shall now
be called to the telephone to talk with
another unknown conversationalist.”
“M.v motto is eternal vigilance.”
said Pelham. "Carry on your busi
ness as usual—your faithful hawk-
Odd Sounds Gave Rise to Belief in Demons
South America has a moaning
mountain. At certain seasons a deep
note booms from Mount El Bromador
in the Chilean Andes. In former
days the natives listened to it with
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Another curious mountain exists in
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“Go and get into flannels,” I’elh^m
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The Parkers did not come. Parker’s
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meals a day. Julia Parker wrote that
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upon.
One day. walking down the drive,
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dressed man approaching the house
—the sort of man to inspire confi¬
dence even among the most suspi¬
cious.
“If lie’s a salesman.” Hanby reflect¬
ed, “I’m gone. A man like that could
sell me anything!”
The stranger bowed politely.
“Mr. Hanby, I believe?”
“Yes,” replied Hanby, wondering
what it was he was about to buy.
“My name is Appleton—Frederick
Appleton. You are probably unaware
of my existence.”
“On tlie contrary, you are expected
when tlie bass season opens. You
were kind enough to give my friend
Mr. Pelham some information about
this house.”
“As I was In the neighborhood, 1
took the liberty of coming to see your
improvements. 1 have always been
much interested in the Gray house.”
“I shall be glad to show you over
it and ask your advice, r find every
day that there are a lot of things
about country estates that they don’t
teach boys on farms—these improve¬
ments, for instance."
Mr. Appleton’s manner was almost
eager.
“May 1 ask what they are?”
“A big swimming pool between the
tennis courts and the house, a new
garage for six cars, a Japanese tea
house, and a dozen smaller Jobs,”
Nothing pleases the new owner
more than the opportunity to exhibit
his properly. Mr. Appleton was
bored by nothing. He begged to be
shown everything. He had no criti¬
cisms. He congratulated Hilton Han
by warmly.
“You will make this.” he declared,
“one of the stately homes of Amer¬
ica. You have a genius for this sort
of thing.”
Only in one mntter was his view
opposed to that of the owner. He
thought that the ground given over
to the bird sanctuary would do ad¬
mirably for ornamental glass houses.
“M.v wife and 1 wouldn’t think of
such a thing,” Hanby asserted firmly.
“We ore for (he conservation of bird
life. You may not know it, hut our
rarer species of songsters are in seri¬
ous danger of extermination. Thir.it
bird sanctuary is a hobby of ours,
and It will not he disturbed vvhil*
we live.”
Mr. Applpton wrung his hosf«c
hand. Hanby was surprised at th<*
emotion written on this cheery, un
lined face.
“It does you credit, sir,” he ex¬
claimed. “In my Ignorance I have
given no thought to such matters.
Tt was criminal negligence. I did
not know.”
“As a matter of fact," Hanby con¬
fessed, “I was just as heedless as
you until a month ago. Mr. Bayllss.
whom I met at the Metropolitan club,
told me all about it. 1 rat tier thinb
he Is president, of the Ornithological
society.”
“The name seems familiar,” said
Appleton. “One of our national au¬
thorities, if I mistake not. ( think
I have rend a notice of one of his
books on the subject.”
Appleton was sightseeing until
luncheon. Hanby would not let tiim
refuse to stay to the meal, despite the
fact that he had a neat package of
sandwiches and fruit.
The interior of the house charmed
him greatly. He was filled with nd
miration at the rules of the Sanctu¬
ary eluh. The critical family circle
approved of him.
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