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They went to Boston last fall Boston is a hot-bed of spookism, as you may know. They spent the winter there among the brethren, and have come on here for a change." "They'll get it. What is the girl doing?" "Spooking mainly. That's all her 'guides' will allow her to do. Clarke still dominates the household by the aid of the ghostly granddaddy a grim old chap that. They hold regular 'séances' now."
'Your imagination is all right, and New York is neither heaven nor the other place. The fact is, I'm spooking, and I can tell you, Austin, it's just about the finest kind of work there is. If you could manage to shuffle off your mortal coil and get in with a lot of ghosts, the way I have, you'd be playing in great luck.
You will please explain yourself at once." The captain shifted uneasily from one foot to another. "I was sure he was a spy, sir," he made reply. "Why else should he be spooking about your tent at such an hour in the morning? But if I have made a mistake "
Therefore, as you see, the court's persistent fashion of coming back to that subject every little while and spooking around it and prying into it was not to pass the time it had a strictly business end in view. 9 Her Sure Deliverance Foretold THE NEXT sitting opened on Thursday the first of March. Fifty-eight judges present the others resting.
"It had to be done. By the way, I wonder what's happened to Stubbs?" "Oh, I guess he is spooking around some place. He'll turn up before long." The lad was right. Hal and Chester had hardly composed themselves to sleep when the flap to the tent was lifted and Stubbs' head appeared. He struck a match and looked at the two lads. "Asleep?" he asked. Neither lad was, but neither replied.
He looked piteously about him for a moment, then crumpling the paper in his hand, cried out in a hoarse, choking voice, "Yes, it's a fact: I done it. It's no use denying on't.. Here it is, in black and white. Everybody knows it: ghosts come spooking around to tattle about it. What's the use of lying? I done it."
"A good ghost would fit in nicely here, wouldn't it or he, or she. Its spookship would travel far to find a more delightful place for spooking in, and providing, of course, she were a perfectly respectable hant what a charming addition to our family he would make.
The laughter attracted the attention of Helen and Colonel Anderson, who came from the parlor to learn the cause of it. Helen gave a cry of fear as her eyes fell upon Ivan's prisoner. "Who is he?" she exclaimed. "Oh, just some fellow who was spooking around outside," replied Chester. But Helen was not to be fooled thus easily.
Do you know, old man, I feel as though we're getting away just in the nick of time. My back hair and the pricking of my thumbs warn me that your dearly beloved spooks are combining to put up some sort of a spooking job on us. I hope Yee Kee has a plentiful supply of joss-sticks to stand 'em off, if they get too busy while we are gone."
Inasmuch as mine host's cries must still be echoing in the uttermost parts of the house, it seemed needless to compel him to take the climb. Spiker agreed with me. It was not surprising that Weston was out, for he was an odd one, always spooking around somewhere, investigating everything, and asking questions.
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