An author is always something of a romancer, and God knows, the mystery of The Yellow Room is quite full enough of real tragic horror to require no aid from literary effects.

I am, and only desire to be, a faithful "reporter." My duty is to report the event; and I place the event in its frame--that is all.

It is only natural that you should know where the things happened.
I return to Monsieur Stangerson.

When he bought the estate, fifteen years before the tragedy with which we are engaged occurred, the Chateau du Glandier had for a long time been unoccupied.

Another old chateau in the neighbourhood, built in the fourteenth century by Jean de Belmont, was also abandoned, so that that part of the country was very little inhabited.