"
"I'll go and take a look," volunteered Dorothy. "There can be nothing
harmful there if Ned did not discover it."
She advanced toward the closet, in which her cousin was partly hidden,
seemingly hunting for the ghost.
"Be careful," cautioned Roger, "He'll eat you up, Doro."
At that moment Dorothy leaped back. She did see something.
"Look there!" she cried to Ned.
"Where?" he asked innocently, "I don't see anything. Look again, Doro."
She had the courage to look again.
Then she covered her face with her hands and burst out laughing.
"You horrid boys!" she exclaimed as soon as she could do so. "To play such
a trick!" and she proceeded to bring out from the closet the "ghost." "I
might have known you were up to something!"
"Then why didn't you?" asked Joe, still dancing about; jubilant over the
success of their joke.
"Just look at this, Tavia," said Dorothy, dragging from the closet the
stuffed figure of a man. "Isn't he perfectly lovely? Such a--"
"Fine figure," ventured Tavia, now quite calm, and perhaps a trifle
embarrassed, for she had made such a fuss, saying he almost grabbed her,
and all that.
The joke surely had been a success, and it took some time to allay the
spirits of the boys, from Ned to Roger.
Each seemed to attribute the success of the "ghost" to his own particular
talent in that line, and when finally Mrs.
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