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174 ahead for rooms that morning, but the proprietor had about given them up. However, it was only eleven o'clock.

"Wouldn't you think it was—next day?" asked Betty, as she noted the time.

"A great deal happened in a short space," said Mrs. Mackson. "Oh, but it is good to be in a house again."

"One that isn't haunted," added Grace.

Morning, as Betty put it, "dawned clear and bright," and with it came refreshment to the Outdoor Girls. They almost forgot the terrors of the night, and when Mr. Blackford met them in the parlor, he having arrived about an hour after they did, he found a very different set of young ladies.

"Well, are you ready for the ghost hunt?" he asked, with a smile.

"I am!" declared Mollie. "I think that ought to be investigated. The authorities should be notified, not so much for what happened to me—to all of us—as because of what might happen to others. Then there's poor Mr. Lagg—he'll lose what money he put into that property if the value goes down because of the ghosts. I say let's try to discover the secret."

"I'm with you!" exclaimed Betty, and Amy and Grace gave rather halting assents. Mrs.