[ The Haunted House: a True Ghost Story (chapter 4) - by Walter Hubbell ] When John White took Esther to his house to reside, he performed a charitable deed, which no man in the village but himself had the heart to do. Both he and his good wife showed, by the kindness with which they treated the poor unhappy girl, that Heaven had at least inspired two hearts with that greatest of all virtues—Charity. It was now January, 1879,—just four months since the manifestations first commenced. Esther had been at White’s residence for two weeks, and had not seen anything of the ghost. She had
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[ The Haunted House: a True Ghost Story (chapter 3) - by Walter Hubbell ] Supper is just over. Dan and Olive are in the parlor. Jane is up stairs in her room, talking to Esther who has retired early; it being only seven o’clock, she asks Esther: “How long she is going to continue to worry herself about Bob?” Not receiving a reply, she puts on her heavy sack and remarks: “I am going over to see Miss Porter, and will soon return; it is so damp and foggy to-night that, I declare, it makes me feel sleepy too. I think I will follow your example, and retire early. Good night, I suppose you will be
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[ The Haunted House: a True Ghost Story (chapter 2) - by Walter Hubbell ] Esther and Jane arose on the morning of August 28th, 1878, as was their usual custom, at half-past six, and ate breakfast with the rest of the family. After breakfast Jane went to Mrs. Dunlap’s, Dan to his shoe factory with his brother-in-law, William Cox, John Teed also went to his work, and none of the family remained in the house but Olive and Esther, who commenced to wash up the breakfast dishes and put the dining room in order, so that part of their work at least should be finished before the two little boys came down stairs to have their
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