from previous--

he  was  safe in the  haunted  house, old  and  abandoned,  nobody  would  ever  come  there searching  for  him, three times  a  ghost  bride  had  killed  three  new  husbands  with a  knife, he  in the  dark  made  himself  comfortable, a  fragrance  exotic  filled  his  nostrils  , he  heard  stifled  sobs,  near  by, a  flea  got  into  his  nose  with the  fragrance  , he  sneezed  , a  female  voice  frightened  asked  who  was  there