“The ghost!” squealed Agnes. “I should hope not. If I had——”
She signified by her look and manner that such an apparition would have quite overcome her.
“It was Tess,” she said.
“She hasn’t been to the garret?”
“Of course not! You believe in that old ghost, after all, Ruth.”
“What nonsense!”
“Well, if it wasn’t a ghost Tess saw, it was something like it. The child is convinced. And coming on top of those vanishing kittens——”
“For mercy’s sake, Aggie Kenway!” screamed Ruth, grabbing her by the shoulders and giving Agnes a little shake. “Do be more lucid.”
“Why—ee! I guess I haven’t told you much,” laughed Agnes. “It was Tess who looked out of the kitchen window a little while ago and saw Tommy Rooney going by the house—on Willow Street.”
“Tommy Rooney?”