"Yes, and then it uttered a hideous laugh," said Ike Akley. "I shall never forget that—-it was awful, and it seemed to go right through a fellow."
"Why didn't you shoot at it?" asked Snap. "That is what I should have done."
"Humph! I guess if you saw that ghost you'd be paralyzed," said
Carl Dudder. "Why it was enough to make your hair raise on ends!"
"I thought it was coming ashore and murder the lot of us," said
Jack Voss.
"Then you are not going to stay here?" asked Giant.
"Not much! I am going down to Lake Cameron as quick as I can get there!"
"So am I!" said another.
"You had better go down, too," said a third.
"No, we are going to stay here," answered Shep. "We haven't seen the ghost, but we have heard those ghostlike voices and we want to find out what it means."
"Oh, there's a real ghost—-I heard about it before I left home," said Carl Dudder. "But I didn't think it would visit us."