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Title: A'Chu and other stories
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Anderson, Emma Maria (Thompson), Mrs., 1865- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Takoma Park, Washington, D.C., Review & Herald publishing assn.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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had concluded to reduce the price. Thatwas singular. Usually we found landlords quick toraise the price when a foreign tenant applied for it. The students were wiser in Chinese mysteries thanwe. They suspected there was a reason why the househad been so long unoccupied. A careful examination ofthe premises was made. Everything appeared to be inexcellent condition. Indeed, judging from the conditionof the woodwork and decoration of the walls, the housewas not an old one, and probably had not been usedfor any length of time. The furniture, of the sort usually rented with Chinesedwellings, was in disorder, as if the last moving-out hadbeen a rather sudden flight. The rooms were litteredwith rubbish buried beneath dust and covered with cob-webs. However, we thought this but natural in a housevacant for years. It was the agents refusal to havethe place cleaned up that was most surprising. Noallowance for labor that was offered tempted him topromise he would put the house in readiness. 303
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The Haunted House 305 This excited the suspicion of the young men of theschool, and led them to inquire among the neighbors asto the reputation of the place. The neighbors said itwas a dangerous place, inhabited by demons. Theymeant it was what our forefathers would have calleda haunted house. The wealthy man who builtthis home lost his wife there, and his children, too.Every family that has lived there since that time hassuffered. Lots of folks have died there. Now peopleare afraid because everybody knows it is a spirit-house.Thus spoke the neighbors. The students had learned better things. They be-lieved in Jesus, and were no longer afraid of hauntedhouses. Under the direction of their preceptor, the olderstudents set to house-cleaning. The rubbish was burned,and the cobwebs with it. The woodwork was cleanedand the walls whitewashed. Upstairs the board floorswere given such a thorough treatment with soap andwater as to make them turn pale. When the down-stairs floors, in like manner

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