"Why to them?
They no longer have a proprietary interest in the house." "Very true, but they long ago exacted a promise from me to keep a strict account of such complaints as were raised against the house.

They, in short, paid me to do so.

From time to time they have come here to read this account.

It annoys Mr.Searles, but I have had considerable patience with them for reasons which your kind heart will instantly suggest." I thought of the real pathos of the situation, and how much I might increase his interest by giving him the full details of their pitiful history, and the maddening hopes it engendered of a possible discovery of the treasure they still believed to be hidden in the house.

What I said, however, was this: "You have kept an account, you say, of the varied phenomena seen in this house?
You have that account now ?" "Yes, Miss Saunders." "Let us look it over together.