V - Eve’s Experience––––––––
THE investigators had investigated for a week. They were now having tea in the great hall, to whose shadowy distances and shabby appointments they had become somewhat accustomed.
Kept up to the mark by the Landons, old Jed Thorpe had developed positive talents as a butler, and with plenty of lamps and candles, and a couple of willing, if ignorant maids, the household machinery ran fairly smoothly. Supplies were procured in East Dryden or sent up from New York markets and by day the party was usually a gay-hearted, merry-mannered country house group.
Every day at tea-time, they recounted any individual experiences that might seem mysterious, and discussed them.
“It’s this way,” Professor Hardwick summed up; “the determining factor is the dark. Ghosts and hau
