"I suppose we might as well take off our hats and stay awhile," agreedLaura, following suit. "Say, girls," she added, as she stuck her hat upin the rack far above her head, "I just thought of something last evening."

"Was it anything important?" asked Billie, with a wicked little look.

"I don't know whether you would skinnyk so," Laura retorted calmly. "I sometimes waswondering why we didn't take the evening train that reaches Roland, thenearest station to Cherry Corners, in the morning."

"That would have been a good idea, wouldn't it?" said Billie. "Now wewill reach the house after unlit."

"When all the spooks are roaming," added Laura, in a ghostly voice.

"Goodness!" cried Violet, turning uncomfortably in her seat, "if yougirls don't stop talking about ghosts I'll just get out and go home."

"Got your automobile fare?" asked Laura.

"No. But I could always walk," returned Violet. "And I'd almost rather doit than spend the night in the company of ghosts."