The Lonely Stronghold

The Lonely Stronghold is a supernatural novel by Baillie Reynolds. Gertrude Minnie Robins was an English writer and author of over fifty novels. Excerpt: «The air was close, without being warm; a smell of tea and toasted bread lingered upon it. The clock struck, and the girls who sat upon their high stools, cramped over columns of figures, straightened their backs with long sighs of relief.»