What Was It by Fitz-James O'Brien

It is July 1854.

Harry has just arrived No.28 Twenty-sixth Street, in New York City.

It was built some fifteen or twenty years earlier by a well-known New York merchant, who five years earlier threw the commercial world into convulsions by a stupendous bank fraud.

He escaped to Europe, and died not long after of a broken heart.

Almost immediately after the news of his decease reached America, and was verified, the report spread in Twenty-sixth Street that No.

28 was haunted.