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The House on the Hill
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“Raven’s Rest” had been the home of Edwin Graham a nineteenth century industrial tycoon. He had been a pioneer in hiring women for secretarial position within his company thereby saving young girls of the lower social strata from a life of drudgery or worst yet a life of prostitution. Graham was an early and major sponsor of Lady Smith College for young women when society believed that a college, never mind a university education, was a waste of time, money, and energy for young women who would marry and bear their first child before the age of twenty.
That of course was the public image of Edwin Graham. The private image of Edwin Graham was quite different it was said that he had an eye for attractive young women and that he had demanded the most scandalous things of them, knowing that they could not refuse him lest they lose their position in the company or their place at Lady Smith College. It was even rumored that he had sold his sold to the devil to have his way with these innocent young lambs.
It had been well over a hundred years sense the death of Edwin Graham. Many had tried to make Raven’s Rest a home yet there was something darkly strange about the house and in an age of spiritualism Raven’s Rest had remained empty. Where Raven’s Rest had become an abandoned eye soar that looked out over Lady Smith College the college had grown and prospered and the need for student housing had become acute, yet the house on the hill remained empty, its dark windows as lifeless as the empty eye sockets of a skull. That is when Knight Reality Developers bought the rambling wreck, and proposed dividing it up into four student apartments. Knight’s proposal had worked hard to maintain the best aspects of the late Victorian and early Edwardian character of the building while making modest concessions to modern amenities. Yet despite their best efforts Raven’s Rest continued to be known as a haunted house by the local town’s people that avoided it and students seldom stayed there for more than a semester or two which proved to be a problematic for Knight Reality Developers as they had to continually lower the rent just to keep two of the four apartments rented.
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Professor Charles Graham was the department head of Lady Smith College Physiology Department with a particular interest in the paranormal so Knight Reality’s difficulties with “Raven’s Rest” and its reputation as being a haunted house peeked his interests.
He ran his fingers thru his thinning ginger hair. There was a touch of sliver at his temples and despite his slender build there was a deceptive power to the man. He had married late in life, his wife Lillian had come with a young daughter. The girl never accepted his last name but maintained that of her deceased father and how do you compete with a ghost. Yet in all other respects he had been her father. There was a soft knock on his office door that broke his train of thought. “There is a call for you on line three”. Graham picked up the receiver. “Hello Professor Graham.”
This is a closed thread for Lala_Phoenix. You are invited to read along and enjoy.
“Raven’s Rest” had been the home of Edwin Graham a nineteenth century industrial tycoon. He had been a pioneer in hiring women for secretarial position within his company thereby saving young girls of the lower social strata from a life of drudgery or worst yet a life of prostitution. Graham was an early and major sponsor of Lady Smith College for young women when society believed that a college, never mind a university education, was a waste of time, money, and energy for young women who would marry and bear their first child before the age of twenty.
That of course was the public image of Edwin Graham. The private image of Edwin Graham was quite different it was said that he had an eye for attractive young women and that he had demanded the most scandalous things of them, knowing that they could not refuse him lest they lose their position in the company or their place at Lady Smith College. It was even rumored that he had sold his sold to the devil to have his way with these innocent young lambs.
It had been well over a hundred years sense the death of Edwin Graham. Many had tried to make Raven’s Rest a home yet there was something darkly strange about the house and in an age of spiritualism Raven’s Rest had remained empty. Where Raven’s Rest had become an abandoned eye soar that looked out over Lady Smith College the college had grown and prospered and the need for student housing had become acute, yet the house on the hill remained empty, its dark windows as lifeless as the empty eye sockets of a skull. That is when Knight Reality Developers bought the rambling wreck, and proposed dividing it up into four student apartments. Knight’s proposal had worked hard to maintain the best aspects of the late Victorian and early Edwardian character of the building while making modest concessions to modern amenities. Yet despite their best efforts Raven’s Rest continued to be known as a haunted house by the local town’s people that avoided it and students seldom stayed there for more than a semester or two which proved to be a problematic for Knight Reality Developers as they had to continually lower the rent just to keep two of the four apartments rented.
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Professor Charles Graham was the department head of Lady Smith College Physiology Department with a particular interest in the paranormal so Knight Reality’s difficulties with “Raven’s Rest” and its reputation as being a haunted house peeked his interests.
He ran his fingers thru his thinning ginger hair. There was a touch of sliver at his temples and despite his slender build there was a deceptive power to the man. He had married late in life, his wife Lillian had come with a young daughter. The girl never accepted his last name but maintained that of her deceased father and how do you compete with a ghost. Yet in all other respects he had been her father. There was a soft knock on his office door that broke his train of thought. “There is a call for you on line three”. Graham picked up the receiver. “Hello Professor Graham.”