The Secret of the Sundial / Madge Sterling Series, #3

By Ann Wirt
The Madge Sterling Series
The Missing Formula The Deserted Yacht The Secret of the Sundial
THE GOLDSMITH PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO
Copyright, 1932 The Goldsmith Publishing Company Made in U. S. A.
On a certain evening in early September—Friday the thirteenth—to be exact, a stranger in Claymore, Michigan, might have been startled to behold two figures, grotesque in long white sheets which draped them from head to foot, scurrying along an alley leading to Summit Street. It was an appropriate night for ghosts to be abroad. The moon was in the dark and the wind whistled weirdly through the trees.
The two figures moved stealthily along the boxwood hedge which bordered the rear of the George Brady property. Presently, coming to an opening barely large enough to squeeze through, they paused, glancing hastily in all directions.
“The coast is clear!” one murmured in a low tone.
“Surely you don’t expect me to crawl through that tiny hole!” came the indignant protest. “I’m not the bean-pole you are, Jane Allen. What’s the sense of all this secrecy anyhow? Why can’t we go in the main entrance?”
“I suppose you want everyone to see you!” the other retorted. “What’s the use of having a secret society if it isn’t secret?”
The second “ghost” silently acknowledged the weight of this argument and permitted herself to be pushed toward the opening in the hedge. Half way through, her sheet caught. In her efforts to free herself, it tore.
“Mother’s best sheet!” she groaned. “Won’t I catch it when I get home!”