SHORT STORY (5,500+ words). Bill lived alone with his dog Ahab in a grand old house in the woods that his Uncle and late Father built in the 1930s. After Uncle Orville left him with a half-remodeled house and a leaky roof, Bill began receiving letters signed "O" containing clues that only his Uncle would have known. He remembered ghost stories his uncle used to tell about visits in the remote woods. Were the letters from his uncle's ghost or someone playing a trick on him? The last letter directed him to find a certain lady at a night spot on a date weeks away, Should he go? Was she in on the joke? Or some other answer?