"I'll just finish this row before we start," she said.

"You might call up the light company in the meantime, Lizzie--there seems to be a storm coming up and I want to find out if they intend to turn out the lights tonight as they did last night.

Tell them I find it most inconvenient to be left without light that way." "It's worse than inconvenient," muttered Lizzie, "it's criminal--that's what it is--turning off all the lights in a haunted house, like this one.

As if spooks wasn't bad enough with the lights on--" "Lizzie!" "Yes, Miss Neily--I wasn't going to say another word." She went to the telephone.

Miss Cornelia knitted on--knit two--purl two-- In spite of her experiments with the ouija-board she didn't believe in ghosts--and yet--there were things one couldn't explain by logic.