"I'll dare you all to go in there with me," spoke up Esther Ann.
"Oh, Esther Ann, dast we?" said Alcinda.
"Why not? Nobody lives there, and I don't believe anyone owns it, for there is never a person goes in or out, even to do spring cleaning. I heard my mother say that two old ladies lived there, sisters, and they didn't speak to one another for years; that was long ago and since they died nobody knows who the place belongs to, for it isn't ever lived in."
"Like that place where we go to gather chestnuts," spoke up Reba. "Anybody can go there and get all they want. My father said I could go, and that it was all right, and he knows."
"Of course he does," agreed Esther Ann. "Come, who is going with me?"
"I'd as soon go as not," Reliance was the first to speak.
"How do you get in?" asked Alcinda, a little doubtfully.
"Walk in, goosey. Just open the door and walk in."
"Isn't the door locked?"
"The back door isn't, I tried it one day," replied Esther Ann.