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Updated: May 18, 2025

When I raised my agonised eyes to the rocks, all was silent and desolate: the lady had vanished." It was in Paris, at the Hotel Mandeville, that I met the Baroness Paoli, an almost solitary survivor of the famous Corsican family. I was introduced to her by John Heroncourt, a friend in common, and the introduction was typical of his characteristic unorthodoxy.

Elliott O'Donnell - Byways of Ghost-Land