Don Horacio 



her own eyes had seen the apparition 

 leaving her father's house, and she 

 was able to add some interesting and 

 unrelated details to the written narra- 

 tive. She also gave to Mr. Cutter, 

 or at least promised to obtain for 

 him, from one of her family, a photo- 

 graph of the portrait made by her 

 father of the " phantom ladye." 



Mr. Cutter delighted in ghost 

 stories and psychical mysteries of 

 every kind. Sir Edward Lytton's 

 story of a haunted house, The House 

 and the Brain, was one of his prime 

 favorites. His reading generally 

 covered a wide range, from fairy 

 tales and juvenile literature, espe- 

 cially of the grown-up variety, like 

 Alice in Wonderland, Babb Ballads, 

 The Adventures of Brer Fox and 

 Brer Rabbit and the primitive folk- 

 lore of Uncle Remus, on the one 

 hand, to the latest reports of current 

 astronomical research, on the other. 

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