THE HAUNTED HOUSE
CHESTER-BELLOCS The Green Overcoat Mr. Petre The Emerald The Haunted House
George Huggins) as an open-air merchant of vegetables and orchard produce in 1883_]
THE HAUNTED HOUSE
BY HILAIRE BELLOC
_With Illustrations by G. K. CHESTERTON_
NEW YORK · _Harper & Brothers_ · LONDON 1928
THE HAUNTED HOUSE COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY HILAIRE BELLOC PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES FIRST EDITION M-B
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
An early portrait of Lord de Beaurivage (then Mr. George Huggins) as an open-air merchant of vegetables and orchard produce in 1883 _Frontispiece_
_Facing page_
The brothers at Rackham 20
Aunt Hilda settling everything 38
Neighbour Hellup and Neighbour Jake 56
“Our younger hostesses” 60
The Ancestor 68
Progress of Sir Harry Murtenshaw, Knight, to his ancestral home 70
John Maple as Lieutenant Allegri 78
The atheist Gaul 122
“Twenty thousand pounds? You haven’t got twenty thousand pence!” said Aunt Hilda 130
Fond embrace of Hilda, relict of the late William Maple, Esquire, of Rackham Catchings in the County of Sussex, and Amathea, wife of George, First Baron de Beaurivage (pronounced Bruvvish) 146
Lord Hambourne is astonished at the modern habits of the fifteenth century 156
Mr. Corton reads _The Spectator_ 188
John Maple explains his plan 194
Growing nervousness of Lord de Beaurivage 226
Lord Hellup accepting from Lord Hambourne the interesting scientific discovery that motor-cars are less susceptible to psychic influence than horses 236
Partial, but representative deputation of the domestic staff of Rackham Catchings protesting against the Headless Thing 238
Unaffected emotion of George, First Baron de Beaurivage on the appearance of an historic figure 242
Distraction of Lord Hambourne on being offered the usual terms 248
Effect of the other world on Miss Broom, housemaid 250
Solid satisfaction of Mr. Pretherton at the pressed pace of Columbus 256
Genuine pleasure of Columbus on observing the haste of Mr. Pretherton 258
Wifely protest of Amathea, Lady de Beaurivage, at the unworthy treatment of her lord 268
Hilda Maple admits that she is a sinful woman 270
“Hannibal!... I mean, Hamilcar!” 272
THE HAUNTED HOUSE