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    At the Ghost Hour The House of the Unbelieving Thomas
    At the Ghost Hour The House of the Unbelieving Thomas
    At the Ghost Hour The House of the Unbelieving Thomas
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    At the Ghost Hour The House of the Unbelieving Thomas

    By Frances A. Van Santford and Paul Heyse

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Well written novella by a Nobel laureate in Literature. The first I have read of Heyse.

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    At the Ghost Hour The House of the Unbelieving Thomas - Frances A. Van Santford

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    Title: At the Ghost Hour

    The House of the Unbelieving Thomas

    Author: Paul Heyse

    Illustrator: Alice C. Morse

    Translator: Frances A. Van Santford

    Release Date: October 22, 2010 [EBook #33878]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AT THE GHOST HOUR ***

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    At the Ghost Hour

    The House of the

    UNBELIEVING

    THOMAS

    TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF

    PAUL HEYSE

    BY

    FRANCIS A. VAN SANTFORD

    WITH DECORATIONS BY

    ALICE C. MORSE

    NEW YORK

    DODD, MEAD & COMPANY

    MDCCCXCIV

    Copyright, 1894, by

    DODD, MEAD & COMPANY.

    THE HOUSE OF THE UNBELIEVING THOMAS

    In a provincial town of northern Germany there is a street in which the ancient, high-gabled houses bear, inscribed in Gothic letters, upon the lintels of their doors or upon little sandstone tablets, such honorable or fanciful names as The Good Shepherd, Noah's Dove, The Palms of Peace, The Rose of Sharon, and underneath, the date of their erection.

    than the light and air which penetrate from without. Since then new generations had arisen, fired with the spirit of aggressive enlightenment, and the importance of these old families, content with the stray sunbeams that made their way over the tall roofs, had declined perceptibly. One by one, they had died off behind their Palms of Peace and their Roses of Sharon, and had made way for the bustling children of the new era, whose light and cheerful dwellings sprang up around the dingy old street.

    Upon a block of stone above the wide entrance there were cut, in letters so weather-worn as to be scarcely legible, these words: The Unbelieving Thomas, 1534. From this, the street had been christened Thomas Lane--a title which it still bears, though, only in official documents and on the map of the city. In common parlance it had been known for more than fifty years as Ghosts' Lane--again because of that same ancient building which was responsible for its correct name. For every one knew that the house of The Unbelieving Thomas was haunted; and even the most cold-blooded free-thinkers of the town could not escape a slight shiver when business forced them to tread the neglected pavement of this street.

    Why this old three-storied structure, so firm despite its great age, had been inhabited all these years only by poor unabsolved souls, no one could tell. With one man who had had the hardihood to purchase the house, things had turned out badly enough. A Jew, to whom the great, empty rooms seemed suitable for a warehouse, had been established there less than two years, when one morning he was found with a bit of silk stuff twisted about his neck, hanging from the crosspiece of a window in the largest room. And it subsequently became evident that Fortune had turned her back upon this man, once prosperous and well-to-do, and there was nothing for him but to steal out of the world and leave his accumulation of debts behind him.

    Nothing save the house itself and its dusty furnishings remained to the creditors; and as no purchaser appeared, they were forced to vent their chagrin in fierce glances at the gray, weather-beaten sign over the door, upon which, in huge black lettering, was the name of the firm: Commission and Dispatch House of Moritz Feigenbaum.

    He had to open the great, black, outer door each morning, and to close it again at night; and now and then he took a survey

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