s, here, almost more than anywhere else," continued the chaplain,
"I think we excel all other mountaineers in the number and variety of
our legends and ghost stories. I assure you that there is not a cave
or a church, or, above all, a castle, for miles round about, of which
we could not relate something supernatural."

The Baroness, who perceived the turn which the conversation was likely
to take, thought it better to send the children to bed; and when they
were gone, the priest continued, "Even here, in this castle--"

"Here!" inquired Edward, "in this very castle?"

"Yes, yes! Lieutenant," interposed the Baron, "this house has the
reputation of being haunted; and the most extraordinary thing is, that
the matter cannot be denied by the skeptical, or accounted for by the
reasonable."

"And yet," said Edward, "the castle looks so cheerful, so habitable."

"Yes, this part which we live in," answered the Baron; "but it
consists of only a few apartments sufficient for my family and these
gentlemen; the other portion of the building is half in ruins, and
dates from the period when men established themselves on the mountains
for greater safety."

"There are some who maintain," said the physician, "that a part of the
walls of the stern tower itself are of Roman origin; but that would
surely be difficult to prove."

"But, gentlemen," observed the Baroness, "you are losing yourselves in
learned descriptions as to the erection of the castle, and our guest
is kept in ignorance of what he is anxious to hear."

"Indeed, madam," replied the chaplain, "this is not entirely foreign
to the subject, since in the most ancient part of the building lies
the chamber in question."

"Where apparitions have been seen?" inquired Edward, eagerly.

"Not exactly," replied the Baroness; "there is nothing fearful to be
seen."

"Come, let us tell him at once," interrupted the Baron. "The fact is,
that every guest who sleeps for the first time in this room (and it
has fallen to the lot of many, in turn, to do so,) is visited by some
important, significant dream or vision, or whatever I ought to call
it, in which some future event is prefigured to him, or some past
mystery cleared up, which he had vainly striven to comprehend before."

"Then," interposed Edward, "it must be something like what is known
in the Highlands, under the name of second sight, a privilege, as some
consider it, which several persons and several families enjoy."

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