"Of course it would take a very heavy wind to blow
the button in, but then--" and then I fell asleep, convinced that no
ghost had ventured within a mile of me that night. But when morning
came I was undeceived. Something must have visited us that Christmas
Eve, and something very terrible; for while I was dressing for
breakfast I heard my wife calling loudly from below.
[Illustration: "IT HAD TURNED WHITE"]
"Henry!" she cried. "Please come down here at once."
"I can't. I'm only half shaved," I answered.
"Never mind that," she returned. "Come at once."
So, with the lather on one cheek and a cut on the other, I went
below.
"What's the matter?" I asked.
"Look at that!" she said, pointing to my grandmother's hair-sofa,
which stood in the hall just outside of my library door.
It had been black when we last saw it, but as I looked I saw that a
great change had come over it.
_It had turned white in a single night!_
Now I can't account for this strange incident, nor can any one else,
and I do not intend to try. It is too awful a mystery for me to
attempt to penetrate, but the sofa is there in proof of all that I
have said concerning it, and any one who desires can call and see it
at any time.
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