The narrator, who is given no name or gender, is one half of the living couple who now live in the "haunted house." The narrator seems to be the only living person able to perceive…
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The Husband
The husband, also unnamed, is one of the two ghosts who figure in the story, searching the house for the dead couples "treasure." He lived "hundreds of years ago" in the house with his wife…
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The Wife
The wife, the other ghost who appears in the story, spends it searching the house with her husband for their "treasure" and reminiscing about their lives together. During their lives, she died first, "hundreds of…
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