CHAPTER VI

OF THE SAD CONDITION OF THE HAUNTING SPECTRE OF THE MIGHT HAVE BEEN Dapplemere Farm House, or The Manor, as it was still called by many, had been built when Henry the Eighth was King, as the carved inscription above the door testified. The house of Dapplemere was a place of many gables and latticed windows, and with tall, slender chimneys shaped and wrought into things of wonder and delight. Thus, it had beauty of outline without, and was roomy and comfortable within. It possessed a great, old hall; there were spa…