" One night I had dined at my club, and proposed to spend four or five hours enjoying my tea and a stiffish brief. 1 was sitting near the door, there being, as you see, no other, with chairs and tables in the different cor ners of the room. Suddenly looking ! up, I found just in front of my table a young woman wih light hair hanging down, her hands and irms pressed across her breast. Such a look of agony was in her face and eyes as quite spell-bound me. She passed a way, and I rang for my old lady. ; " ' Lawk, master, how pale you look ! j Oh, you have seen the young woman ? j She only comes in this room ; but she (frightens folk a plenty. 1 will get j another room reary to-morrow." '"On no account,' I replied. 'I j have made up my mind if she comes back to-morrow to question her.' 4 1 then saw to the fastening of the doors, and went to bed, but could not oleep ; and as I lay rhinking I remem bered that when I went to call upon our selected tradesmen they bad all looked curiously when I mentioned the house. At last I had said to one of the very well-to-do tradesmen: " 4 Why do you look odd at me at the mention of the house ?' " He replied : " 1 1 know nothing of it myself, but no family remains in it long.' "' Oh,' replied I, 4 drains, or water, or pipes. I will have them looked to.' " Pipes and drains! I think there is something more than that.V

" la the morning I had breakfast in the room overlooking the garden, and a more unlikely room or House to be haunted I never saw. That night af ter dinner, I watched and watched and watched, and nothing came. But when I had quite given up the idea, and was again absorbed in my brief, on looking up I saw the woman again. This time I spoke. "' Who are you, and what want

you ?' " The figure glided out of the room. I followed, and the old woman behiud me. The figure went down those three stairs, and passed through the door. The old woman unlocked and opened it.
