But Thankful lay awake, thinking and wondering--yes, and dreading.

What sort of a place was this she had inherited?
She distinctly did not believe in what Hannah Parker had called "aberrations," but she had heard something--something strange and inexplicable in that little back bedroom.

The groans might have been caused by the gale, but no gale spoke English, or spoke at all, for that matter.

Who, or what, was it that had said "Oh Lord!" in the darkness and solitude of that bedroom?
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