Of the events preceeding my subsequent confinement to the madhouse, few actual traces remain.
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In the neglected part of the gallery was a painting, or a niche containing a statue, rumored to be somehow terrible. |
I am certain what I saw fumbling in the unlit hallway that day was a skeleton. |
No one claimed to be aware of the fact that sometimes a yellowish light floated. |
In the forgotten cabinet; a suggestion of materialisation did seem to furtively stir, unseen. |
As far as I was able to ascertain, where that stairway led to was anybody's guess. |
More than one person had been found in that room, dead of apparent fright, eyes fixed on the small upper window. |