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Title: The Abandoned Room

Author: Wadsworth Camp

Release Date: January 30, 2004 [EBook #10869]

Language: English

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THE ABANDONED ROOM

A Mystery Story

BY WADSWORTH CAMP

Author of "The House of Fear," "War's Dark Frame," etc.

1917

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. KATHERINE HEARS THE SLY STEP OF DEATH AT THE CEDARS

II. THE CASE AGAINST BOBBY

III. HOWELLS DELIVERS HIMSELF TO THE ABANDONED ROOM

IV. A STRANGE LIGHT APPEARS AT THE DESERTED HOUSE

V. THE CRYING THROUGH THE WOODS

VI. THE ONE WHO CREPT IN THE PRIVATE STAIRCASE

VII. THE AMAZING MEETING IN THE SHADOWS OF THE OLD COURTYARD

VII. WHAT HAPPENED AT THE GRAVE

IX. BOBBY'S VIGIL IN THE ABANDONED ROOM

X. THE CEDARS IS LEFT TO ITS SHADOWS

THE ABANDONED ROOM

CHAPTER I

KATHERINE HEARS THE SLY STEP OF DEATH AT THE CEDARS

The night of his grandfather's mysterious death at the Cedars, Bobby
Blackburn was, at least until midnight, in New York. He was held there by
the unhealthy habits and companionships which recently had angered his
grandfather to the point of threatening a disciplinary change in his
will. As a consequence he drifted into that strange adventure which later
was to surround him with dark shadows and overwhelming doubts.

Before following Bobby through his black experience, however, it is
better to know what happened at the Cedars where his cousin, Katherine
Perrine was, except for the servants, alone with old Silas Blackburn who
seemed apprehensive of some sly approach of disaster.

At twenty Katherine was too young, too light-hearted for this care of her
uncle in which she had persisted as an antidote for Bobby's shortcomings.
She was never in harmony with the mouldy house or its surroundings,
bleak, deserted, unfriendly to content.

Bobby and she had