She nodded. "He's hired some of the men around here to keep watch for them and they say some detectives are coming. You'll help too, I guess."
"That should be easy."
"Maybe. I don't know. My aunt works there. She's housekeeper. It's spooky, she says, but she can't afford to quit."
"But they haven't seen anything?" asked Peter incredulously.
"No. Not yet. I guess it might relieve 'em some if they did. It's only the things you don't see that scare you."
"It sounds like a great deal of nonsense about nothing," muttered Peter.
"All right. Wait until you get there before you do much talkin'."
"I will, but I'm not afraid of ghosts." And then, as an afterthought, "Are you?"
"Not in daylight. But from what Aunt Tillie says, it must be something more than a ghost that's frightenin' Jonathan K. McGuire."
"What does she think it is?"