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The Filigree Ball

The Filigree Ball

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Number of Chapters: 32

Length: 12 hours and 05 minutes

Language: English

[The Moore House] was standing when Washington was a village. It antedates the Capitol and the White House. Built by a man of wealth, it bears to this day the impress of the large ideas and quiet elegance of colonial times; but the shadow which speedily fell across it made it a marked place even in those early days. While it has always escaped the hackneyed epithet of "haunted," families that have moved in have as quickly moved out, giving as their excuse that no happiness was to be found there and that sleep was impossible under its roof.

That there was some reason for this lack of rest within walls which were not without their tragic reminiscences, all must acknowledge. Death had often occurred there, and while this fact can be stated in regard to most old houses, it is not often that one can say, as in this case, that it was invariably sudden and invariably of one character. A lifeless man, lying outstretched on a certain hearthstone, might be found once in a house and awaken no special comment; but when this same discovery has been made twice, if not thrice, during the history of a single dwelling, one might surely be pardoned a distrust of its seemingly home-like appointments, and discern in its slowly darkening walls the presence of an evil which if left to itself might perish in the natural decay of the place, but which, if met and challenged, might strike again and make another blot on its thrice-crimsoned hearthstone. - Excerpt from Chapter I

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'The Moore House?' (Crln Yldz Ksr)
I Enter (Crln Yldz Ksr)
I Remain (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Signed, Veronica (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Master and Dog (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Gossip (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Sly Work (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Slyer Woes (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Jinny (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Francis Jeffrey (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Details, Part 1 (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Details, Part 2 (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Thrust and Parry (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Chiefly Thrust (Crln Yldz Ksr)
'Let Us Have Tallman!' (Crln Yldz Ksr)
White Bow and Pink, Part 1 (Crln Yldz Ksr)
White Bow and Pink, Part 2 (Crln Yldz Ksr)
An Egotist of the First Water (Crln Yldz Ksr)
A Fresh Start (Crln Yldz Ksr)
In the Grass (Crln Yldz Ksr)
In Tampa (Crln Yldz Ksr)
'The Colonel's Own', Part 1 (Crln Yldz Ksr)
'The Colonel's Own', Part 2 (Crln Yldz Ksr)
The Heart of the Puzzle (Crln Yldz Ksr)
A Thread in Hand (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Words in the Night, Part 1 (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Words in the Night, Part 2 (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Tantalizing Tactics (Crln Yldz Ksr)
'Who Will Tell the Man!', Part 1 (Crln Yldz Ksr)
'Who Will Tell the Man!', Part 2 (Crln Yldz Ksr)
Rudge (Crln Yldz Ksr)
'You Have Come!' (Crln Yldz Ksr)
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