Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Towards the beginning of the eighteenth century there stood on a rock in the sea, near a fishing village on the coast of Brittany, a ruined Tower with a very bad reputation. No mortal was known to have inhabited it within the memory of living man. The one tenant whom Tradition associated with the occupation of the place, at a remote period, had moved into it from the infernal regions, nobody knew why--had lived in it, nobody knew how long--and had quitted possession, nobody knew when. Under such circumstances, nothing was more natural than that this unearthly…
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