“Well! who wouldn’t be?” demanded Jess.
They went on to the car tracks at a slower pace. Some of the first girls to arrive, however, had not waited for the two special cars that stood upon the side track, but took a regular one back to town.
“I believe I saw Hester Grimes get aboard that car that just passed,” said one of the twins. “I wonder what she was doing out here?”
“Lots of people ride out this way in the evening,” returned another girl. “I suppose Hessie has a right to come, too.”
“Wish she’d been up there in that house to get scared.” muttered Jess.
“And Laura seems to have taken a car back to town, likewise,” said Nellie.
Laura’s absence began to trouble Jess. She searched among the other girls, but could get no word of her chum.
“She beat us,” laughed Mary O’Rourke, when Jess approached her with the question. “She’s gone home.”
There was a deal of bustle and laughter as the girls climbed into the special cars. They had recovered from their fright now, and some laughed at it. But not a girl could say what the light was they had seen bobbing over the ground. And the three who had been in the house were half tempted to believe that they had seen something supernatural in that uncanny east room.
“At any rate, I felt there was something there the moment I went in,” declared Nellie.