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Title: Black Spirits and White
A Book of Ghost Stories

Author: Ralph Adams Cram

Release Date: September 22, 2008 [EBook #26687]

Language: English

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BLACK SPIRITS AND WHITE

CARNATION SERIES

Black Spirits & White

_A Book of Ghost Stories_

BY
RALPH ADAMS CRAM

[Device]

CHICAGO
STONE & KIMBALL

MDCCCXCV

COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY
STONE AND KIMBALL

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. The oe
ligature is represented by [oe].

"BLACK SPIRITS AND WHITE,
RED SPIRITS AND GRAY,
MINGLE, MINGLE, MINGLE,
YE THAT MINGLE MAY."

Contents

PAGE
NO. 252 RUE M. LE PRINCE 3
IN KROPFSBERG KEEP 33
THE WHITE VILLA 55
SISTER MADDELENA 83
NOTRE DAME DES EAUX 115
THE DEAD VALLEY 133
POSTSCRIPT 151

No. 252 RUE M. LE PRINCE.

No. 252 Rue M. le Prince.

When in May, 1886, I found myself at last in Paris, I naturally
determined to throw myself on the charity of an old chum of mine, Eugene
Marie d'Ardeche, who had forsaken Boston a year or more ago on receiving
word of the death of an aunt who had left him such property as she
possessed. I fancy this windfall surprised him not a little, for the
relations between the aunt and nephew had never been cordial, judging
from Eugene's remarks touching the lady, who was, it seems, a more or
less wicked and witch-like old person, with a penchant for black magic,
at least such was the common report.

Why she should leave all her property to d'Ardeche, no one could tell,
unless it was t