It is very well that you sent Grace Davoren, at my suggestion, from the Haunted House to what is supposed to be the haunted cottage, in the mountains, where Nannie Morrissy soon joined her.

I supplied them with provisions, and had a bed and other articles brought to them, according to your own instructions, and I think that, for the present, the safest place of concealment will be there." Woodward became terribly alarmed.

It was on the eve of his marriage, and the intelligence almost drove him into distraction.
"I will follow your advice," said he, "and will take refuge in what is called the haunted cottage, for this night." His mysterious friend now left him, and Woodward prepared to seek the haunted cottage in the mountains.

Poor Grace Davoren was in a painful and critical condition, but Woodward had engaged Caterine Collins to attend to her: for what object, will soon become evident to our readers.
Woodward, after night had set in,--it was a mild night with faint moonlight,--took his way towards the cottage that was supposed to be haunted, and which, in those days of witchcraft and.

superstition, nobody would think of entering.