stant the walls shook to and fro, as if a
giant had swayed and rocked them.

The two workmen were so frightened that they ran up the ladder by which
we had descended from the trap-door; but seeing that nothing more
happened, they were easily induced to return.

Meanwhile I had opened the tablet; it was bound in plain red leather,
with a silver clasp; it contained but one sheet of thick vellum, and on
that sheet were inscribed, within a double pentacle, words in old
monkish Latin, which are literally to be translated thus: "On all that
it can reach within these walls--sentient or inanimate, living or
dead--as moves the needle, so work my will! Accursed be the house, and
restless be the dwellers therein."

We found no more. Mr. J---- burned the tablet and its anathema. He razed
to the foundations the part of the building containing the secret room
with the chamber over it. He had then the courage to inhabit the house
himself for a month, and a quieter, better-conditioned house could not
be found in all London. Subsequently he let it to advantage, and his
tenant has made no complaints.

FOOTNOTE:

[Q] Reprinted by special permission from "Great Ghost Stories."
Copyright, 1918, by Dodd, Mead and Company.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Page 43, "by" changed to "my" (replied my uncle)

Page 61, "the the" changed to "the" (find the gasoline)

Page 109, "elvation" changed to "elevation" (the rear elevation)

Page 131, "ge" changed to "we" (then we got interested)

Page 132, "inspiried" changed to "inspired" (murmured Tusky, inspired)

Page 144, "Hut" changed to "Huh" ("Huh!" said Billy, grimly)

Page 177, "Wiliams" changed to "Williams" (quarreling," said Mrs.
Williams)

Page 333, "forbiding" changed to "forbidding" (forbidding the
performance)

Page 347, "matinee" changed to "matinee" (dress after the matinee)

Page 385, "well" changed to "will" (nobody will ever)

Page 391, "notural" changed to "nocturnal" (nocturnal adventure to
which)

Page 404, "succeded" changed to "succeeded" (I succeeded at last)

Page 407, "someing" changed to "something" (there was something)

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