This is such a GHOSTLY night . I 'm sure all the ships that ever sailed out of Four Winds to their doom could be seen tonight sailing up the harbor with their drowned crews on their decks , if that shrouding fog could suddenly be drawn aside . I feel as if it concealed innumerable mysteries -- as if I were surrounded by the wraiths of old generations of Four Winds people peering at me through that gray veil . If ever the dear dead ladies of this little house came back to revisit it they would come on just such a night as this . If I sit here any longer I 'll see one of them there opposite me in Gilbert 's chair . This place is n't exactly canny tonight . Even Gog and Magog have an air of pricking up their ears to hear the footsteps of unseen guests . I 'll run over to see Leslie before I frighten myself with my own fancies , as I did long ago in the matter of the Haunted Wood . I 'll leave my house of dreams to welcome back its old inhabitants . My fire will give them my good-will and greeting -- they will be gone before I come back , and my house will be mine once more . Tonight I am sure it is keeping a tryst with the past . '' Laughing a little over her fancy , yet with something of a creepy sensation in the region of her spine , Anne kissed her hand to Gog and Magog and slipped out into the fog , with some of the new magazines under her arm for Leslie . `` Leslie 's wild for books and magazines , '' Miss Cornelia had told her , `` and she hardly ever sees one . She ca n't afford to buy them or subscribe for them . She 's really pitifully poor , Anne . I do n't see how she makes out to live at all on the little rent the farm brings in . She never even hints a complaint on the score of poverty , but I know what it must be . She 's been handicapped by it all her life . She did n't mind it when she was free and ambitious , but it must gall now , believe ME . I 'm glad she seemed so bright and merry the evening she spent with you .
Captain Jim XXXXX me he had fairly to put her cap and coat on and push her out of the door .
Laughing am brings greeting hear keeping live makes seen told