The Oakdale Affair

Frozen to silent rigidity, a young man and a woman sat straining every faculty to catch the minutest sound from the black void where the dead man lay. As they listened there came up to them, mixed with inexplicable footsteps, a hollow echo from the dank cellar- a hideous dragging of chains. Up, up it came toward the room at the head of the stairs where they huddled fearfully. They could now hear quite clearly what might have been the slow and ponderous footsteps of a heavy man dragging painfully across the rough floor. It stopped in front of their hideout and all was silent. Find out what happened to them!