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Title: The House of Mystery
An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant An Episode
in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant

Author: William Henry Irwin

Release Date: June 22, 2004 [EBook #12678]

Language: English

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[Illustration: ROSALIE LE GRANGE]

THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY

AN EPISODE IN THE CAREER OF ROSALIE LE GRANGE, CLAIRVOYANT

By WILL IRWIN

Illustrated by Frederick C. Yohn

1910

CONTENTS

I. The Unknown Girl

II. Mr. Norcross Wastes Time

III. The Light

IV. His First Call

V. The Light Wavers

VI. Enter Rosalie Le Grange

VII. Rosalie's First Report

VIII. The Fish Nibbles

XI. Rosalie's Second Report

X. The Streams Converge

XI. Through the Wall-Paper

XII. Annette Lies

XIII. Annette Tells the Truth

XIV. Mainly from the Papers

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Rosalie le Grange

Annette

"It wasn't the money; it was the game--"

He had taken an impression of mental power as startling as a sudden
blow in the face

"Then it's as good as done"

Norcross's breath came a little faster

"I was looking straight down on the back parlors"

"Stay where you are," he commanded

THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY

I

THE UNKNOWN GIRL

In a Boston and Albany parlor-car, east bound through the Berkshires,
sat a young man respectfully, but intently studying a young woman. Now
and then, from the newspapers heaped in mannish confusion about his
chair, he selected another sheet. Always, he took advantage of this
opportunity to face the chair across the aisle and to sweep a glance
over a piquant little profile, intent on a sober-looking book. Again,
he would gaze out of the window; and he gazed oftenest when a freight
train hid the beauties of outside nature. The dun sides of freight cars
make out of a window a passable mirror. Twice, in those dim and
confused glimpses, he caugh