The Haunted Doll's House

The Haunted Doll’s House.

mr chittenden, you must often get things like that in your shop, said mr dillet, pointing with his stick to the doll's house in the window. Mr dillet knew a lot about old things, and realized it was very special.
"you can't be serious" replied Mr Chittenden. " that should be in museum".
"you don't say! "laughed Mr dillet."And how much is it?"
"seventy-fivepounds,sir"
"that's a price for an american buyer, let's say fifty".
in the end they agreed on something in between, and half an hour later Mr Dillet took the thing way in his car.
Mr Chittenden stood at the shop door.smiling,with the money in his hand, and waved goodbye. then he entered the back room where his wife was making tea.
"it's gone" he said. " Mr Dillet bought it"
"good!" sad MrsChittenden."He needs a bit of a shock"
"well, I'm sure he's going to get it,and we won't have any more of it", said Mr chittenden, as they sat down to tea.
when Mr Dillet arrived home,collins,the butler, came out to help him. together they carried the dooll's house up to Mr Dilletet's bedroom and put it on his desk. then Mr Dillet openend the front of it, and put everything in its place.

It was abeautiful example of 18th century doll's house.
-six feet wide with a chapel on the left,and a stable on the right. the chapel had a bell and coloured glass windows. when the front of the house was open,you saw four large rooms inside: bedroom, kitchen,drawing room, and dining room, each with all the right furniture in it .the stable contained horses, a coach, and stable boys, and on top was thestable clock, also with a bell.
the house stood on a platform which had steps going up to the front door, and a terrace on it. this platform also had a drawer in it, where you could keep different curtains and doll's clothes, so you could change things when you wanted. "it's wonderful", sighed Mr dillet. " and what a low price price ! I could sell it in town for ten times more. it almost makes meafraid. I hope my luck doesn't change for the worse. but let's see who lives here".
He put the doll's in a line in front of him. there was a gentleman and a lady in blue - he was in a suit an she in a fine dress. there were two children, a boy and girl, together a with a cook, a nurse, a servant, a coach driver, and three stable boys.

" Is there anyone more? perhaps." The four-poster bed had itscurtains closed and he put his finger between them and felt inside.
he pulled it out quickly because it seemed to him something there had felt almost alive.
when he opened the curtains,he discovered an old gentleman with white hair in a long white nightgown, and put him with the others. that was all of them.

It was nearly dinner time, so in five minutes Mr Dillet put all the dolls backand went down for dinner. He didn't return to his own fine Four-poster bed until eleven o'clock that night.
there was no striking clock in Mr dillet's room, nor on the stairs or stable of his house, and none in the nearby church.
but it was a clock striking that woke Mr Dillet from a pleasant sleep at one in the morning. He was so surpresed he sat up in bed.
strangely, although the room wasdark, he could see the doll's house very clearly. It seemed that a full moon was shining down on it, and he could see trees around it - behind the autumn smell of a cool september nights.
he thought he could hear horses moving in the satbles. and with another shock he realized that above the roof, instead of the wall of his room, he was looking into a dark blue night sky.
He saw to that this was nofour-roomed house with a movable front, but a real house with many rooms and stairs, although strangely smaller than it should be.
"you want to show me something" he said to himself.
Two rooms in the doll's house were lit: one on the ground floor to the right of the door and one upstairs on the left. the first room was brightly lit, the second not so brightly. and he could see everything that...