linden leaves a white house showed itself to the beholder. I knew then that I had found the mansion of my dreams, and I had no doubt that I would come upon a narrow road about a hundred meters from the main highway. It was just as I had imagined it. I followed it, and it brought me before the white gate. Beyond that gate was the path I had so often traversed in my dreams. I began to feast my eyes on the carpet of flowers spread beneath the trees; then I passed through the linden grove and saw the wide lawn and the little porch crowned by the light-colored oak door. I got out of the car, climbed the steps lightly, and rang the bell. I was very much afraid that no one would answer me, but a servant quickly appeared before my eyes — a sad-faced man, advanced in years, wearing a black coat. I noticed that astonishment took hold of him when he saw me, and he kept gazing at me for a long while without speaking. So I said to him:
— I am going to ask a favor of you that may seem strange to you. I do not know the owners of this house, but I should be happy if they would allow me to visit it.
He answered me in a tone of sorrow and regret: — The house, madam, is for rent, and I am here to show it to those who wish to see it.
I answered him: — For rent — is it true? What great luck!... And how could its owners give up so beautiful a house as this?
— Its owners used to live in it once, madam, but they left it from the time they felt that ghosts were haunting it.
— Spirits and ghosts? I said. That will never keep me from renting it. I did not know that people in the French provinces still believed in ghosts.
He said to me gravely: — Nor did I,
madam, believe in such things before I met in the garden, at night, the aged figure that drove my masters to flight.
Trying to smile, I said: — What a story!
The old man answered me in a tone of reproach: — It is a story that you, madam, above all must not laugh at — for that aged figure is you yourself!
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