<p>It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.<br>A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity?but that would be asking too much of fate!<br>Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it.<br>Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted?<br>John laughs at me, of course,...