The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming
gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-old legend - two
fugitive slaves had been killed by bounty hunters after leaving its
passageways, and Dies Drear himself, the abolitionist who has made the
house into a station on the Underground Railroad, had been murdered
there. The ghosts of the three were said to walk its rooms...