Bell In The Fog And Other Stories Author:Gertrude Atherton The great author had realized one of the dreams of his ambitious youth, the possession of an ancestral hall in England. It was not so much the good American¿s reverence for ancestors that inspired the longing to consort with the ghosts of an ancient line, as artistic appreciation of the mellowness, the dignity, the aristocratic aloofness of wall... more »s that have sheltered, and furniture that has embraced, generations and generations of the dead.« less