"Well,
there is some news. Simon came home with it this noon. He heard
it in South Dayton. He had some business over there this morning.
The old Sargent place is let."
Mrs. Emerson dropped her sewing and stared.
"You don't say so!"
"Yes, it is."
"Who to?"
"Why, some folks from Boston that moved to South Dayton last year.
They haven't been satisfied with the house they had there--it
wasn't large enough. The man has got considerable property and can
afford to live pretty well. He's got a wife and his unmarried
sister in the family. The sister's got money, too. He does
business in Boston and it's just as easy to get to Boston from here
as from South Dayton, and so they're coming here. You know the old
Sargent house is a splendid place."
"Yes, it's the handsomest house in town, but--"
"Oh, Simon said they told him about that and he just laughed. Said
he wasn't afraid and neither was his wife and sister. Said he'd
risk ghosts rather than little tucked-up sleeping-rooms without any
sun, like they've had in the Dayton house. Said he'd rather risk
SEEING ghosts, than risk being ghosts themselves.
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