“He isn’t going to a masquerade, I’ll bet on that!” grinned Buck. “If I’m not mistaken he’ll turn up pretty soon at our camp with this nightgown on!”
“When he does, we’ll take it off!” promised Ted, grimly.
“Shall we wait for him to come home and then nab him?” Buck asked.
“No the sight of this ghost costume has made me change my mind, and if you agree to my plan, we’ll work this thing out another way. Let’s get out of here before he returns and wait around camp until he does show up in this sheet affair. Then, when we grab him, we’ll have him just where we want him. If we accuse him of anything now he can easily back out by saying that he doesn’t know anything about it, but if we catch him around the camp in this suit we will have him just where he’ll find it impossible to escape.”
“That is all right as far as it goes, but how are we going to know just what night he does visit the camp? We don’t want a chase such as we had the other night.”
“No, but I have a plan for a trap. However, let’s get out of here first and we’ll discuss it on the way back. Now I’m particularly anxious that he doesn’t catch us in here or know that we have been here.”
“All right. We haven’t disturbed anything, have we?”
Ted looked around thoughtfully and then shook his head. “I guess not. We didn’t touch anything and I’m glad we didn’t even touch the suit. By the way, while we are here, let’s see if there is any sign of that skeleton that was in the bushes back of the camp.”
They hunted hastily around for the skeleton, looking in every corner and into a small closet space off of the main room, but there was no sign of the object which had so startled them. Satisfied that they could not find anything, which would add to their store of knowledge concerning the man, and anxious to get out of Hogs’ Hollow as soon as possible, they left the hut, arranging the door as they had found it, and struck at once off into the swampland toward the higher ground. No words were exchanged between them until they had quitted the hollow and had arrived at higher ground, where they started off side by side toward the camp.
“What is your idea about trapping the fellow when he comes ghosting?” asked Buck, as they skirted the cemetery and started along the rough road.