The Old Stone House and Other Stories

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Old Stone House and Other Stories, by Anna Katharine Green This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Old Stone House and Other Stories Author: Anna Katharine Green Release Date: June 13, 2007 [eBook #21824] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE OLD STONE HOUSE AND OTHER STORIES*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) THE OLD STONE HOUSE AND OTHER STORIES BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN Short Story Index Reprint Series BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS FREEPORT, NEW YORK First Published 1891 CONTENTS. Page The Old Stone House 1 A Memorable Night 122 The Black Cross 154 A Mysterious Case 164 Shall He Wed Her? 178 [1]THE OLD STONE HOUSE. I was riding along one autumn day through a certain wooded portion of New York State, when I came suddenly upon an old stone house in which the marks of age were in such startling contrast to its unfinished condition that I involuntarily stopped my horse and took a long survey of the lonesome structure.