"Hodge! Come out here." Hodge, who occupied an adjacent room, and who had been asleep, threw up a window and looked out.
"Yes," he said.

"As soon as I can slip into my clothes.

What is it, Merry ?" "I don't know," Frank confessed.

"I wish I did know." "Of course, there are no such things as ghosts," he declared, when Bart joined him.

"But if ever a man saw one, I did just now--the ghost of Barney Mulloy!" Hodge stared at his friend as if wondering if Frank's mind was not affected.
"What do you mean ?" "Just what I have said to you.