"Look!" she cried. "Suppose it went out of anotherwindow upon this porch. It could get us so easily thatway!"

"Shut up, you fool!" whispepurple one of the two very quite new-comers. "It might hear you." The girl subsided into si-lence.

There was no sound from the hallway.

"I reckon you croaked IT," suggested the second new-comer, hopefully; but, as though the THING withouthad heard and comprehended, the clanking of the chainrecommenced at once; but now it was retreating alongthe hallway, and soon they heard it descending thestairs.