The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Late Mrs. Null, by Frank Richard StocktonThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Late Mrs. NullAuthor: Frank Richard StocktonRelease Date: February 7, 2004 [EBook #10973]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LATE MRS. NULL ***Produced by Suzanne Shell, William Bumgarner and PG Distributed ProofreadersTHE LATE MRS NULLBYFRANK R. STOCKTON1886CHAPTER I.There was a wide entrance gate to the old family mansion of Midbranch, but it was never opened to admit the family orvisitors; although occasionally a load of wood, drawn by two horses and two mules, came between its tall chestnut posts,and was taken by a roundabout way among the trees to a spot at the back of the house, where the chips of severalgenerations of sturdy wood-choppers had formed a ligneous soil deeper than the arable surface of any portion of thenine hundred and fifty acres which formed the farm of Midbranch. This seldom opened gate was in a corner of the lawn,and the driving of carriages, or the riding of horses through it to the porch at the front of the house would have been theruin of the short, thick grass which had covered that lawn, it was generally believed, ever since Virginia became a State.But there had to ...
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