"Who said anything about staying behind?" demanded Whopper. "If you go so will I, even if there are a million ghosts up there."
"I don't believe in ghosts," came from little Giant. "It's some humbug, that's what it is."
"Maybe, maybe," answered Jed Sanborn. "But if you hear that voice and see that yellow thing—-well, I reckon your hair will stick up on end, jest as mine did!"
CHAPTER V
A FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION
On the following Monday Snap and Shep were walking down the main street of Fairview when they heard a cry and saw Giant beckoning to them from the post-office steps.
"What's up?" asked Snap, as he came up to the small youth.
"Ham Spink and Carl Dudder just went in to mail some letters," said Giant.
"What of that?"
"Whopper went in after them. Whopper and I are now sure it was
Ham and Carl who tried to steal our clothing the day we went swimming."