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`` Did anything of an unusual nature ever happen there ? '' Miss Selenski nodded , and then continued : `` The story is that the only daughter of the last of the Pensingers who lived there disappeared one night and was never again seen . Her mother , so the tale goes , wished her to marry an elderly English nobleman , but she loved a poor Hungarian violinist whom she was forbidden to see . Because of her grief , she did many strange things , and one of them was to walk at midnight , dressed all in white , along the brink of the dark swirling river which edged the wide lawn in front of her home . Her white silk shawl was found on the bank one morning and the lovely Marilyn Pensinger was never seen again . `` Her father , however , was convinced that his daughter was not drowned , but that she had married the man she loved and returned with him to his native land , Hungary . So great was his faith in his own theory that , in his will , he stated that the taxes on the old Pensinger mansion should be paid for one hundred years and that it should become the property of any descendant of his daughter , Marilyn , who could be found within that time .