COPYRIGHT, 1934, BY
A. L. Burt Company
Mystery of Jockey Hollow
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE [I Fleeing in Alarm] 7 [II The Ghost Mansion] 20 [III Arden Wonders] 30 [IV Seeing the Dead] 42 [V Baffled] 53 [VI Introducing Granny] 61 [VII Trial by Jury] 68 [VIII The Ghost of Patience] 75 [IX A Warning] 86 [X The Missing Man] 91 [XI Callahan Collapses] 98 [XII A Strange Discovery] 103 [XIII Betty and the Books] 113 [XIV How Did It Happen?] 120 [XV Jim Doesn’t Know] 130 [XVI A Surprise] 140 [XVII Some Real Investigating] 148 [XVIII The Figure in Red] 157 [XIX Santa Claus] 168 [XX Harry Hears Something] 178 [XXI Rift in the Clouds] 185 [XXII Arden’s Idea] 193 [XXIII Mistletoe] 205 [XXIV A Strange Woman] 214 [XXV The Christmas Party] 223 [XXVI Two Ghosts] 230 [XXVII Frightened Screams] 237 [XXVIII Falling Stones] 243
CHAPTER I
Fleeing in Alarm
The proud old house rang with excitement. Nor was there any attempt to suppress it. When no one but the three girls, the faithful Moselle, and her daughter Althea were in it, there seemed no reason to go all the way up to Sim’s room when a lusty shout up the stairs would answer the same purpose. So Terry Landry stood with one foot on the bottom step, leaned against the banister, and again tried to make Sim hear her above the blatant music coming from the radio in the library where Arden Blake was supposed to be listening, but Arden, instead, was curled up in a big chair reading a book of ghost stories.
“Oh, Arden! Will you please turn off that radio just a moment while I call Sim?” Terry spoke in those evenly spaced, overly quiet tones sometimes effectively used to prevent one’s temper from taking flight.
“Hu—u—um!” came from the library as the radio was switched off. “What’s the trouble?”
“No trouble at all. Only I’ve shouted three times for Sim to come down and get this letter. But she must be asleep or something.”