And yet I can show you something, not in the house itself, but connected with it, which you might find interesting." The Princess leaned forward in her chair.
"This sounds so interesting," she murmured.

"What is it, Cecil?
A haunted chamber ?" Their host shook his head.
"Something far more tangible," he answered, "although in its way quite as remarkable.

Hundreds of years ago, smuggling on this coast was not only a means of livelihood for the poor, but the diversion of the rich.
I had an ancestor who became very notorious.

His name seems to have been a by-word, although he was never caught, or if he was caught, never punished.

He built a subterranean way underneath the grounds, leading from the house right to the mouth of one of the creeks.