Chapter I: Front Matter

THE HAUNTED HOUSE

CHESTER-BELLOCS
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The Green Overcoat
Mr. Petre
The Emerald
The Haunted House
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THE
HAUNTED HOUSE

BY
HILAIRE BELLOC

_With Illustrations by
G. K. CHESTERTON_

NEW YORK · _Harper & Brothers_ · LONDON
1928

THE HAUNTED HOUSE
COPYRIGHT, 1928, BY HILAIRE BELLOC
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
FIRST EDITION
M-B

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

An early portrait of Lord de Beaurivage (then Mr. George
Huggins) as an open-air merchant of vegetables and orchard
produce in 1883 _Frontispiece_

_Facing page_

The brothers at Rackham 20

Aunt Hilda settling everything 38

Neighbour Hellup and Neighbour Jake 56

“Our younger hostesses” 60

The Ancestor 68

Progress of Sir Harry Murtenshaw, Knight, to his ancestral home 70

John Maple as Lieutenant Allegri 78

The atheist Gaul 122

“Twenty thousand pounds? You haven’t got twenty thousand pence!”
said Aunt Hilda 130

Fond embrace of Hilda, relict of the late William Maple,
Esquire, of Rackham Catchings in the County of Sussex, and
Amathea, wife of George, First Baron de Beaurivage (pronounced
Bruvvish) 146

Lord Hambourne is astonished at the modern habits of the
fifteenth century 156

Mr. Corton reads _The Spectator_ 188

John Maple explains his plan 194

Growing nervousness of Lord de Beaurivage 226

Lord Hellup accepting from Lord Hambourne the interesting
scientific discovery that motor-cars are less susceptible to
psychic influence than horses 236

Partial, but representative deputation of the domestic staff of
Rackham Catchings protesting against the Headless Thing 238

Unaffected emotion of George, First Baron de Beaurivage on the
appearance of an historic figure 242

Distraction of Lord Hambourne on being offered the usual terms 248

Effect of the other world on Miss Broom, housemaid 250

Solid satisfaction of Mr. Pretherton at the pressed pace of
Columbus 256

Genuine pleasure of Columbus on observing the haste of Mr.
Pretherton 258

Wifely protest of Amathea, Lady de Beaurivage, at the unworthy
treatment of her lord 268

Hilda Maple admits that she is a sinful woman 270

“Hannibal!... I mean, Hamilcar!” 272

THE
HAUNTED HOUSE