Leaves From the Book of Life Author:Charles Shaw General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1867 Original Publisher: The Reorganized Church of Latter Day Saints Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Mil... more »lion-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: I 120 T/RAT? THE THIRD. THE CHATEAU DE BEIENNE. I Mentioned an old cMteau which, with its woods, formed the western boundary of the heath. It had long been unoccupied, and, like all old buildings, had the reputation of being haunted. There was not a villager who had not seen some strange eight himself, or who had not been assured by persons, who had been assured by others, that lights suddenly appeared in the windows of the chateau and were as suddenly extinguished. Some who had the hardihood to approach the chateau nearer than their more timid neighbours had heard, or fancied they heard, groans and screams as of persons in distress. Nay, one or two went the length of declaring that they had seen a figure actually glide from one window to the other and then vanish. Though I was convinced that these stories were mere creations of the brain, I had still a curiosity to take a view of the interior of the chateau. I set out accordingly one morning about the middle of autumn. The air was bracing; and the woods that sur- rounded the ch« less