Anonymous Anonymous 
Story of Clifford House 

A classic Victorian haunted-house story Thirty years before, the man who was both proprietor and tenant of Clifford House died, leaving his two daughters all he possessed. He had been a bad man, led a bad wild life, and died in a fit broughton by drunkenness; and these two daughters, grown to womanhood, inherited with his ill-gotten gold his evil nature. They were only half-sisters, and were believed to have beenillegitimate also. The elder, a tall, masculine, strongly built woman, with masses of coarse fair hair, and bright, glittering blue eyes; andthe younger, a plump, dark-haired rather pretty girl, but astreacherous, vain, and bold, as her elder sister was fierce, passionate, and cruel. They lived in this house, with only theirservants, for several years after their father’s death, a life ofquarrelling and bickering, jealousy and heart-burnings, on variousaccounts.