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"Well, spooks travel about a bit, being restless sort of things. Thirty or forty years back, people swore that old Quill and the other people who croaked up there used to come back during the dark of the moon and hold high revels, as the novel writers would say.
There is really nothing to say about them.... The house after that is Woodside, the home of the two Miss Speirs. They are not ordinary. Miss Althea is a spiritualist. She sees visions and spends much of her time with spooks. Miss Clarice is a Buddhist. Their father, when he lived, was an elder in the U.F. Church. I sometimes wonder what he would say to his daughters now.
"Never more serious in my life," Jack assured him, and then went on to relate the strange experience that had befallen him when he had poked his head out from under the saddle in the sand-storm. "If they weren't so enormous, I should say they was horses," said Pete; "but the biggest horses that ever growed never even approached them critters spooks, er whatever they are."
They were silent for a moment. Then Greg said, "Look, what are you worried about? Nothing could have happened to Dad. He's been mining the Belt for years." "I know. I just wish he were here, that's all. If he's in some kind of trouble...." "What kind of trouble? You're looking for spooks." "Spooks like Jupiter Equilateral, maybe," Tom said. "They could make plenty of trouble for Dad."
He frequently recurred to the subject of ghosts and spooks, and always closed by discussing the character of the apparition he had seen on the roadside. There was no doubt that it had made a deep impression upon him, for he never tired of talking about it.
Only the last night he had heard the spooks at work they were out shooting, at least it sounded as though they were. It was very queer, but perhaps their lunatic of a master "'Gobo, you scoundrel! I shouted out at this juncture, sitting bolt upright on the blankets, 'stop idling there and make me some coffee.
An' before long it's easy you're slipping the slates or bringing spooks from cabinets let me tell you no medium ever did that genuine. But it's funny how long the real thing stays. Now you I called your father Wilfred. Maybe I'll wake up to-morrow night, seein' your face, and a voice will come right out of the air and say a name and it'll be yours.
I am not a superstitious man; but there is one thing I would not do in any circumstances whatsoever, and that is to keep in my sitting-room the things you have got there." "But why?" asked Ferrol. "Well," said Sledge, "nearly all of them have come from the tombs of the dead, and some of them are gods. Such things may have attached to them heaven knows what spooks and spirits."
"Oh! no danger of them coming back again," Billy assured him. "They got the scare of their lives when you tooted that goose-call. Long before now that brace of tramps has struck the railroad ties, and are making tracks for other regions where they don't have old castles haunted by spooks." The last picture was finally taken. Alec seemed satisfied with what he had done.
"No more spooks," he laughed, "no more spirit rappings." Through her tears Vera smiled up at him a wan, broken smile. She gave a shudder of distaste. "Never!" she whispered. "I promise." Their eyes met; the girl's looking into his shyly, gratefully; the man's searching hers eagerly. And suddenly they saw each other with a new and wonderful sympathy and understanding.
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