AS TOLD BY MR. GRYCE. "In the spring of 1840, the attention of the New York police was attracted by the many cases of well-kn...

As there were two good men on duty that night, I did not see why I should remain at my desk, even though there was an unusual stir created...

I was riding along one autumn day through a certain wooded portion of New York State, when I came suddenly upon an old stone house in whic...

Chapter 1 AN OPEN DOOR It was a night to drive any man indoors. Not only was the darkness impenetrable, but the raw mist envelopin...

CHAPTER I I COMMIT AN INDISCRETION I should have kept my eyes for the many brilliant and interesting sights constantly offered me....

WAS it a specter? For days I could not answer this question. I am no believer in spiritual manifestations, yet--But let me tell my sto...

I. THE FASCINATING UNKNOWN. HER room was on the ground floor of the house we mutually inhabited, and mine directly above it, so th...

A black cross had been set against Judge Hawkins' name; why, it is not for me to say. We were not accustomed to explain our motive...

When I met Taylor at the Club the other night, he looked so cheerful I scarcely knew him. "What is it?" cried I, advanci...

It was the last house in Beauchamp Row, and it stood several rods away from its nearest neighbor. It was a pretty house in the daytime...

It was a mystery to me, but not to the other doctors. They took, as was natural, the worst possible view of the matter, and accepted the...

Chapter 1 I am a young physician of limited practice and great ambition. At the time of the incidents I am about to relate, my office ...

I. "A LADY to see you, sir." I looked up and was at once impressed by the grace and beauty of the person thus introduced...