[The Mayor’s Wife by Anna Katherine Green]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mayor’s Wife CHAPTER X 19/39
Jealousy of the past may influence these unfortunate women.
They possibly hate to see strangers in the rooms made sacred by old associations." "That is possible, but how could they, shut up in a house, separated from yours by a distance of several feet, be held accountable for the phenomena observed in 393? There are no means of communication between the two buildings; even the doors, which once faced each other across the dividing alley, have been closed up.
Interference from them is impossible." "No more impossible than from any other outside source.
Is it a fact that the doors and windows of this strangely haunted house were always found securely locked after each occurrence of the phenomena you have mentioned ?" "So I have been told by every tenant I have questioned, and I was careful to question them, I assure you." "That settles the matter in my mind," I asserted.
"These women know of some means of entrance that has escaped general discovery.
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