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Updated: May 23, 2025
But the colored man was not one to remain quiet when he had such a scary visitor, and his yells aroused the ship. "It's a ghostess! A big white ghostess!" yelled Washington. "I don seen it wid my eyes, an' it waved his arms at me. I's goin' to die suah!" "What's all this nonsense?" demanded the professor sternly. Then Washington, more or less excitedly, told of what he had seen.
Jack was just getting the sleep from his eyes by a vigorous rubbing when he heard a loud yell. "Land a' Massy!" cried Washington from the deck above. "I's goin' t' die suah! De ghostess am after me ag'in!" Without waiting to dress, Jack sprang up the ladder and was soon out on the deck.
As the night wore on, and Miss Arthur became calmed and quiet, the girl lay back in the big dressing chair, gazing into the grate, and thinking. Her thoughts were sometimes of Claire, sometimes of Clarence; of the Girards, and of Edward Percy; then of her success as a ghostess, and at this she would almost laugh.
They had not long occupied their respective positions, when Bob's attention was attracted by a cry of alarm from his companion in the bows. "Lawks a mussy!" yelled out Dick in accents of unfeigned terror. "I sees a white ghostess a-flying down on us, with big wings like a h'angel!" "Nonsense, Dick!" cried Bob from aft, trying to peer ahead under the belly of the sail as he was sitting to leeward.
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