"Ask it to sit down and play you a tune," said Nesta, shutting her paint-box. "Nita, how can you frighten them in this silly way with your precious ghost tales? You oughtn't to talk to the servants if Bella only tells you such whoppers. Doreen's eyes are nearly dropping out of her head. By the by, what's become of Winnie and Joyce?"
"I haven't seen them. I thought they were practising. Do they know?" asked Mamie.
"Not yet," replied Nita mysteriously, "but, of course, we shall have to tell them. Oh, here they are now!"
"What's the matter?" cried the pair in question, seating themselves at the table.
"The ghost has been seen in Poplar Lane!" exploded Jessie, before Nita had time to get the words out herself.
A look of intelligence passed between Winnie and Joyce.
"Hold me up! When?"
"Where?"
"To-night. Just by the gate. Bella saw it herself."
"If Bella saw it herself it must have been there!" burbled Winnie.