Edgar Jepson

Name: Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter II
Author: Edgar Jepson

Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter II (1913)

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“Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter II”, published in 1913, is a work by Edgar Jepson. It explores elements such as ghost, Scruton and Garthoyle Gardens.

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Edgar Jepson, Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter II (1913)

“ I went into the office and told Jack Scruton's tale. He howled at it. But when he had grown quiet again, he agreed with me that Scruton could make trouble. The people who can afford a house in Garthoyle Gardens are just the very people who believe in all those psychical phenomena. They support the palmists, the mediums, the crystal gazers, and the clairvoyants. They have nothing else to do. My tenants would fuss like fury; many of them would see ghosts in their own houses. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter II (1913)

“ I had to explain to him that millionaires love to get things cheap—that's how they become millionaires—and a house in Garthoyle Gardens for nothing would tempt any one. Of course, we discussed the question whether Scruton was a millionaire at all. I thought that he was. An ordinary swindler would be more of a gentleman; he would never wear those trousers with a gray morning coat. Jack, too, thought that a swindler would have found a better reason for paying no rent—that a ghost in the twentieth century was too thin. But it seemed to me that the ghost had worked very well with my uncle. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter II (1913)

“ Bulkeley had done before she threw herself out of the window!
Paralyzed, I watched her cross and recross the room a dozen times, noiseless but for sighs. A rustle, ever so faint a rustle, would have made her less uncanny somehow. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter II (1913)

“ My uncle always told me that it was an unlucky house. It has been on fire; the water pipes burst every winter; the roof will suddenly leak without just cause; and poor little Mrs. Bulkeley committed suicide there by jumping out of a second-floor window. I'm not really surprised that it doesn't pay rent.”
“Yes; here's a letter from the tenant, J. Quintus Scruton, to Siddle & Wodgett, saying that he has arranged with your uncle to have the house rent free; and your uncle has indorsed the letter.” ”

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Edgar Jepson, Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter II (1913)

“ If I don't, you pay your rent.”
He hesitated a moment; then he said:
“It's a bargain. What night will you come and sleep in the haunted room? How will Saturday night suit you?”
“Saturday night at eleven-thirty. What kind of a ghost is it?”
“It's a woman, who walks, sighing, up and down the room from which Mrs. Bulkeley threw herself. But she's sometimes seen on the stairs. That's what has driven the servants out of the house.”
“A woman that sighs doesn't sound very terrifying.” ”

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Edgar Jepson, Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter II (1913)

“ It opened into an unfurnished dressing room. The door from the corridor into the dressing room was open, and there was no key in it to lock it. The other rooms on the floor were unoccupied. Some of their doors were open, some shut; none were locked.
I locked the door between the dressing room and my bedroom, and shot the bolt over the keyhole.
Well, I was in quite an ordinary room; and no human being could get into it without forcing the door. There was no doubt about that. I should get a genuine ghost—a real physic phenomenon—or I should get nothing at all. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter II (1913)

“ After three hours among the house fittings, I came home, a broken man. It seemed to me that house fittings were the study of a lifetime, and that I ought to have begun it the moment I went to Eton.
Richards met me with the information that Mr. J. Quintus Scruton had called to see me on business, and was awaiting me in the library. I was feeling very strongly that I had been house agent enough for one day; but business was business, and I had to see him. As I went up the stairs, it occurred to me that the affair seemed queer; that J. Quintus Scruton might be out after the gullible peer. ”

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Edgar Jepson, Garthoyle Gardens — Chapter II (1913)

“ It had, indeed, a black record—eleven tenants in fifteen years.
The last entries ran:
Tenant: J. Quintus Scruton. Gum millionaire from New Zealand. Age about forty-seven. Widower. No family. Theosophist. Servants: Butler, chef, two footmen, housekeeper, and eight other females. Vehicles: Nine. Lease: Seven, fourteen, or twenty-one years, at two thousand pounds a year. February 30: Painful discovery—the house is haunted. That was all; no dossier of the ghost, no reason why the gum millionaire paid no rent. ”

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