Also that the boys and girls were becoming rather excited.
"I didn't say it was a ghost," Mollie was declaring hotly. "In fact I
have always thought of a ghost as wearing a sheet and pillow case sort
of garb. And this thing certainly wore nothing of the sort."
"Tell us all about it," said Frank, leaning forward.
"Yes, it sounds as if it might prove interesting," added Roy.
So the girls told them all about it from that first night when they
had been so badly frightened by the "Thing" that had hidden in the
shadows of the porch. The boys listened with scarcely an interruption
till they were through.
"Gosh, I don't like the sound of that at all," said Will, when they
had finished. "It isn't a pleasant thing to have a lunatic roaming the
woods while you girls are all alone here in this place. Could you
possibly put us up for the night?" he asked, turning abruptly to Mrs.
Irving.
"Why, there isn't any room," said the latter slowly, frowning a little
as she tried to think up ways and means. "There aren't any extra beds,
but there is a large settee in the living room and a couple of you can
sleep on that.
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