"If I do not see this out," said he, "my account of it will go to add
another page to the great volume of superstition. I am armed, not a whit
afraid, and I will see it out, if human enterprise can effect it."
He immediately entered the door, which he found, somewhat to his
surprise, was only laid to, and, after listening for a few moments,
resolved to examine the premises closely. In deference to the reader,
whose nerves may not be so strong as those of Henry Woodward, and who
consequently may entertain a very decided objection to enter a haunted
house, especially one in such a lonely and remote situation, we will
only say that he remained in it for at least an hour and a half; at
the expiration of which time he left it, walked home in a silent and
meditative mood, spoke little to his family, who were a good deal
surprised at his abstracted manner, and, after sipping a tumbler of
punch with his step-father, went rather gloomily to bed.
The next morning at breakfast he looked a good deal paler than they had
yet seen him, and for some time his contribution to the family dialogue
was rather scanty.
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