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Updated: May 7, 2025
There are no such things as ghosts." "It cer-certainly looks like a-a ghost!" faltered Cuffer. "It is a ghost!" said Tad, his teeth beginning to chatter. "I-I ca-can hear it gro-groan! Come on ba-ba-back!" And he began to retreat. "Back with you!" came in solemn tones. "Back with you!" "No white man must come here," said a second voice. "This is sacred ground!"
Stanhope mentioning the treasure hunt and how she would be on hand at Philadelphia to board the steam yacht with Dora and the Lanings. "If Cuffer and Shelley turn that letter over to Merrick it will give him some idea of our proposed trip," said Mr. Rover, "and more than likely he will strain every nerve to get ahead of us."
At once Tom set up a deep groaning and Sam and Dick joined in. "What's that?" asked Shelley, who was the first to hear the sounds. "Sounds like somebody in distress," answered Sid Merrick. "Thought you said there was nobody on this island?" came from Cuffer. "Didn't think there was. Maybe it's some native who " "Look! look!" screamed Tad Sobber and pointed ahead with his hand. "What's that?"
"Sam, you go outside and see if Jack and the Ditwolds are anywhere around," said Dick, and the youngest Rover departed immediately. Presently Tom and Dick heard Cuffer give a cry of pain. "You've stepped on my sore toe!" howled the man. "Phew! how it hurts!" The two men talked about the hurt toe for several minutes. Then their voices suddenly ceased.
"She's been signalling " "What!" he cut me short with disbelief. "What ship?" He turned, quickly, and looked over the quarter. Then he wheeled round to me again. "There's no ship! What do you mean by trying to spin up a cuffer like that?" "There is, Sir," I answered. "It's out there " I pointed. "Hold your tongue!" he said. "Don't talk rubbish to me. Do you think I'm blind?"
Do you happen to have come across a goggle-eyed, potty little Alderman Brooker? a Town Guardsman who runs a general store in the Market Place that's his place of business with the boarding up, and the end butted in by a Creusot shell that didn't burst, luckily for Brooker. Well, this beast buttonholed me months ago, and began to spin a cuffer about Saxham."
"What!" exclaimed Cuffer and leaped forward. He, too, tried to move the barrier. "This is a trick! Somebody has bolted the door on the outside." "Was there a bolt there?" "Yes, a heavy one, too." "Then somebody has trapped us!" "Open that door!" sang out Cuffer, before his companion could stop him. "We are not going to open that door," answered Dick, in an equally loud voice.
Then a bed sheet was used to tie Dick inside of a closet in a corner of the room. "Listen, I think somebody is coming!" cried Cuffer, in sudden alarm. "Keep the boy quiet!" answered Shelley and ran to the hall door just as a knock sounded upon it. "What's the racket up here?" demanded the voice of the hotel clerk. "Oh, we were only trying a vaudeville turn," answered Shelley, coolly.
"What can I do for you?" asked one of the men abruptly, as Dick looked around. "Is a man named Cuffer stopping here?" The hotel clerk shook his head. "Perhaps I have the name wrong. I mean a man who came in a minute or two ago fellow with a soft hat, knocked in on the side." "Oh, that chap!
"We are not to blame for this, you can see that for yourself." Dick could see, and after a few words more, he left the hotel, feeling very depressed in spirits. He spent an hour in looking up and down the Bowery for Cuffer and Shelley, but without success. Then, as it was getting late, he returned to the hotel at which he and the rest of his family were putting up.
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