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The Haunted Hotel

CHAPTER XXIV
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I see photographs of it downstairs.

Are they for sale ?' 'Certainly, Mr.Westwick!' 'Do you think the chimney-piece is as solid as it looks ?' Henry proceeded.

'When you came in, I was just wondering whether this figure here had not accidentally got loosened from the wall behind it.' He laid his hand on the marble forehead, for the third time.

'To my eye, it looks a little out of the perpendicular.

I almost fancied I could jog the head just now, when I touched it.' He pressed the head inwards as he said those words.
A sound of jarring iron was instantly audible behind the wall.


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