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All of a sudden, she pointed at the  doorway behind Mrs Bott, as she

        froze, with her eyes fixed at something. “Look!”

        When Mrs. Bott turned around, she

        did not see anything untoward. Now,
        Miss Manes wanted her to describe the

        whole house to her. In the middle of the
        description, the visitor pointed a  quivering

        finger at the door behind Mrs Bott again.
        “Look!” Mrs Bott turned around but saw

        nothing this time either. This happened
        again during their conversation. But, Mrs

        Bott did not notice anyone or anything in
        the doorway. She expected Miss Manes to

        say the whole thing was a fraud. But to
        her  utter surprise, she said, “I had decided

        not to include your house in my series.
        But, three times I have seen it standing

        there. It is the most  sinister creature I
        have ever seen. It is black from head to                               doorway  an  opening  into  a
                                                                               room  where  the  door  is
        foot, and its eyes were  gleaming through                              froze  stopped  moving  suddenly
        the blackness. Quite small—but it looked                               and  became  still  out  of  fear

        sinister, Mrs Bott.”                                                   quivering  shaking  slightly
                                                                               utter  complete
        “Oh, dear,” uttered Mrs Bott. She was very                             sinister  seeming  evil  or
                                                                               dangerous,  making  you  feel  that
        scared. The situation was like a  nightmare.                           something  bad  might  happen
        She would  never sleep a wink and wanted                               gleaming  shining

        the woman to leave quickly. But Miss Manes                             scared  frightened
                                                                               nightmare  a  frightening  dream
        took many photographs of the Hall, of Mrs                              never sleep a wink  not  sleep  at

        and Mr Bott as well as a  snapshot of Chin                             all
        Chin. As soon as she had left, Mrs Bott                                snapshot  an  informal  photo
                                                                               taken  quickly,  usually  with  a
        rushed to the library to look for Botty. But                           small  hand-held  camera
        there, on the  hearth rug in front of the                              hearth rug  a  rug  spread  out  in
                                                                               front  of  a  fireplace  to  protect
        fireplace, stood the  spectre! She was about                           the  floor
        to scream when she heard a known voice.                                spectre  ghost




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