"Let's charge them in a body." With a bound she reached the drive, closely followed by the other girls.
The ghostly three evidently considering discretion the better part of valor, left the drive and took to their heels across the lawn.

But Grace, who was well in the lead, caught the last fleeing ghost by its robe and held on for dear life.

There was a sound of rending cloth as the apparition bounded forward, then it caught its spectre toe on a tuft of long grass and fell forward with a decidedly human thud.
The girls surrounded it in an instant.

Before it had time to rise, Grace snatched off a white mask smeared around the eye-holes with phosphorus, which explained the flamelike effect, and disclosed the sheepish face of James Gardiner, one of the sophomore class.
"Oh, let a fellow up, will you ?" he said, with a sickly grin.
"You bad boy!" exclaimed Grace.

"What do you mean by dressing up like this?
Don't you know you might frighten some timid person terribly ?" "Initiation," said the youth, with a grin, rising on his elbow and looking as though he would like to make a sudden break for liberty.
"Part of the sacred obligations of the 'Knights and Squires' frat.