The strangers enter the house (sometimes before the body is cold) and leave almost immediately.

After promising to return, the stranger handed Catherine $2 and left.

If no one dies, the stranger will leave, taking his gold with him.

When strangers left a baby with smallpox at the house, the family is affected by the disease.

Coming up to put them there, the stranger had left footprints in the thin snow.

The stranger wrote a cheque upon his banker, for the whole amount, and left him.

The stranger left a purse upon the table, and followed Comus.

A stranger, moved by the ravaged building, walked up to a church official, wrote a $100 check and left.

"Total strangers leave notes in the mailbox, telling me how much they love what's happening to the house," she said.

She had seen no stranger enter or leave the house.