<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=81439.msg3638881#msg3638881">Quote from: dragonsen on September 15, 2010, 09:21:11 pm</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"Arthur Westmore, ma'am," he said softly. However, his gaze was not on her but the beautiful painting in the hall. He couldn't stop staring at it. Unconsciously, he stepped forward until his hand was almost touching the canvas. His hand stopped just before he did damage to the painting. Finally his wandering had brought him someplace that would inspire his muse.  With a gulp he stepped back and tucked his hands in his pockets.<br/><br/>"Beautiful, simply beautiful," Arthur breathed out. "What is the story behind this painting, if I may ask? I hope you will forgive me if you find me just standing here at odd hours and for long lengths of time. I'm a painter and I've been looking for a place to stay while I paint."<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"Well if your a painter, I do have some work you can do.  We are still refurbishing the kitchen and the utility room and they will need a new coat of paint."  She patted his arm.  "Now as to this painting, I'm not sure I really know all that much. It was hanging in the front parlor when we bought the place twenty years ago.  There's some writing on the back says as its of Katherine Sallade.  She was old Henry Sallade's younger sister.  They was the family that founded Henry's Point you know.  Everyone knows that she wasn't right in the head, always visiting the lake shore in the middle of the night and meeting some mysterious man, who wasn't even her husband!  With behavior like that, its know wonder that she was drowned.<br/><br/>They told us that the house sat empty for twenty five years before we bought it too!  Every few years, they would air out the place and try to put it on the market, but no one wanted it on account of her ghost!  It's haunted you know.  That's what made me think of using it for a bed and breakfast!  Six month ago there was a program on popular haunted inns, and here we were sitting on a haunted gold mine!