The Haunted Woman

In the latter half of August, Marshall Stokes went to New York, in
order to wind up the estate of the lately-deceased brother of the lady
to whom he was betrothed. As a busy underwriting member of Lloyd's, he
could ill afford the time--he was over there for upwards of a
fortnight--but no alternative had presented itself. Miss Loment had no
connections in America, she possessed no other relations, except a
widowed aunt, with whom she lived, and it was clearly out of the
question for either of the t...