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A sharp wind howled around the tower room, making weird, wailing sounds. "Isn't it spooky up here this afternoon?" whispered Gyp. "Let's hurry. Here, I'll hand you these books and you pile them over there in that corner." Gyp tossed the books about as though they were bricks. Jerry handled them more carefully.
'Just the same, it is spooky. I can feel it. Look there. She pointed. 'There is a hill. There will be a little ring of hills. In the centre of the basin they make would be the pool. And you know what we heard about it before we left San Juan. This whole country is strange, somehow. 'Strange? he queried challengingly. 'What do you mean? She had not relaxed her hand on his arm.
Only the personality of Cobbens was salient in the group, and would have been so even if Leigh's curiosity concerning the man had not been previously aroused. "We're too frivolous for Cardington," he said, taking off his cap and mopping his brow. "I'm glad to meet you, sir. This is a spooky place, the ideal place for a man to hang himself in.
"I don't want to do that unless I have to," Bud replied. "Besides, I'd like to know what he's up to. Why did you come out here? Couldn't you sleep?" "I didn't sleep a wink; I couldn't. My head was in a whirl all the time. I was busy imagining just such things as this. Believe me, it was some spooky job, out here all alone." "Yes, that's true," Bud agreed. "I'm glad enough to have your company.
"That sound would give me the shudders at night, if I didn't know what caused it," one of them said. "Shut your eyes, then listen," said Westy. "It sounds kind of spooky, huh?" "Gee whiz, but this is a lonely place," Roy said. "It reminds you of Broadway, it's so different. It's a peach of a place to camp." "I bet there are ghosts up here," Pee-wee said darkly.
"If I weren't here, I suppose there'd be a half a dozen spooky visitors!" "Oh, no!" laughed Leslie. "Probably nothing will happen again for some time. Remember how very few times it has happened, anyway. But it is provoking just when we're all ready for it!" "Do you know," exclaimed Phyllis suddenly, "this is the time when I'd just love to go through that place again!
Where's your character, Libbie?" Libbie scowled, but departed, grumbling that she didn't see why she couldn't stay up and watch Norma walk down in the cellar. "Mine is the most spooky," said Betty, when the door had closed behind Libbie. "Listen I'm to climb the water tower at midnight and leave this card there to show I have complied." She held out a little plain white card in a green envelope.
It's all fair and square, too, for the conditions only demand that the runners refuse all sorts of lifts while on the road, and register at each and every tally place designated. If they can cut a corner they are at liberty to do so." "Oh! well," said Julius; "I'm not entered in the Marathon, luckily enough, so you see there's no need of my prowling around this spooky place again.
I leaped out of bed, still in my pajamas, and stood for a moment staring about. Then I ran into the living room. I looked about, rubbing my eyes, startled. No one was there. "Hey Jameson wake up!" It was spooky. I ran back into Craig's room. He was gone. There was no one in any of our rooms. The surprise had now thoroughly awakened me. "Where the deuce are you?" I demanded.
Save the kitchen for cookin', and up stairs put Jim Williams, Spooky Johnson, Tom Hardy, Dick Cramer, and the little cook boy; all got the measles. 'The measles! screamed out half-a-dozen together. 'Good-Lord, we'll be killed in a week. 'They say, said another black eye, 'that that crack Mississippi Brigade took the measles at Harper's Ferry, and died like flies.
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