windows of the s chapel that looked across the beach were lighted up with a light as i have never seen from candle or and there were passing the blaze that seemed deep in some we kept our course until we got almost close aboard � when suddenly all grew dark there came at that moment a gust of wind such as the master said he never knew to sweep in daylight across the it struck us in our teeth and we were glad to get out again upon the broad water it would seem to infer that the evil one had service rendered there which it would be sinful to look upon in my poor judgment it is matter for the church rather than for the hand of the law you are not a man captain to be lightly moved by said the gravely you have good for sense and courage i would have you weigh well what you report surely my lord is as stout a man in heart as any in the province and yet he could scarcely hold his for fear why was i not told of this your s favor replied shaking his head neither the master the nor myself would hazard ill will by moving in the matter there is malice in these my lord which will not brook in their doings we waited until we might be questioned by those who had right to our answer the blessed shield me i i am pledged to fight your bodily foes � the good priests of our holy patron st were better soldiers for this warfare by ic rob of the bowl the remained for some moments silent at last to the he inquired � what dost thou know of this house f well lord charles replied the i was not born to be much d of or in my i have more than once come in the way of these wicked spirits and then i have that a clean breast and a stout heart with the help of an ave mary and a was more than a match for all their but the s house � oh my good lord charles he added with a shrug has in it that it is best not to trouble when and myself were across by st s at that time when s men were thought to be a � last if i remember � we shot a towards night and sat down in the woods waiting to dress our meat for a supper which kept us late before we mounted our horses again but we had some and didn t much care for hours so it was midnight with no light but the stars to show us our way it happened that we rode not far from the s chapel which put us to telling stories to each other about paul and the ghosts that people said haunted his house the made you as well as interrupted the i will not say that replied the but something put it into our heads to go down the bank and ride round the chapel at first all was as quiet as if it had been our church here of st mary s � except that our horses and reared with fright at something we could not see the wind was blowing and the waves were beating on the sh re and suddenly we began to grow cold and then all at once there came a noise inside of the like the by ic rob of the bowl rolling of a full of pebbles and afterwards little flashes of light through the windows and the said he heard chains and groans it isn t worth while to hide it from your but the ran away like a coward and i followed him like another lord charles since that night i have not been near the black house we have an old saying in my country � een bet water � the cat keeps clear of cold water � ha i mind the proverb it is not long ago said � perhaps not above two years � when they say the old sun dried timber of the building turned suddenly black it was the work of a single night � your shall find it so now i can witness the truth of it said � the house was never black until that night and now it looks as if it was with lightning from roof to ground sill and yet lightning could � ever leave it so black without burning it to the ground there is some in this said the it may scarce be accounted for on any pretence of or although i know there are malignant influences at work in the province which find motive enough to do all the harm they can has or any of his had commerce with this house captain can you suspect such intercourse assuredly not my lord replied the captain for who is the most insolent of that has to my personal knowledge the greatest dread of the chapel of all other men i have seen besides these terrors have flourished in the winter night tales of the neighborhood ever since the death of and long before the grew so in the province by ic rob of the bowl it is the blood of the my good lord and of his wife and children that the floor said it is that blood which brings the evil spirits together the old hearth twice every day the blood spots upon the floor and grow strong as the tide comes to flood � at the ebb they may be hardly seen you have witnessed this yourself at the ebb lord charles i did not stay for the change of tide when i saw the spots it was as much as we could do to make them out but at the flood every body says they are 