After a little reflection, the manager decided on trying the experiment, and directed that '13 A' should be reserved accordingly.
On the next day, Francis Westwick arrived in excellent spirits.
He had signed agreements with the most popular dancer in Italy; he had transferred the charge of Mrs.Norbury to his brother Henry, who had joined him in Milan; and he was now at full liberty to amuse himself by testing in every possible way the extraordinary influence exercised over his relatives by the new hotel.

When his brother and sister first told him what their experience had been, he instantly declared that he would go to Venice in the interest of his theatre.

The circumstances related to him contained invaluable hints for a ghost-drama.

The title occurred to him in the railway: 'The Haunted Hotel.' Post that in red letters six feet high, on a black ground, all over London--and trust the excitable public to crowd into the theatre! Received with the politest attention by the manager, Francis met with a disappointment on entering the hotel.

'Some mistake, sir.