“Yes, and get murdered on the way!”
“I wonder if it could be a bear.”
“No bears here now.”
“Get your revolver, Hilary.”
“Haven’t got any.”
“Sh-sh. I just said that for the benefit of the burglar.”
“Could it be the boys trying to scare us?”
“They wouldn’t do such a thing, besides they couldn’t get up here without being found out.”
By this time it began to be a lark to some of us, and we got over being so frightened. Then there was a rubbing sound against the klondike. Patty was puzzled, we could see, but she said, “I think that it must be some animal, probably a loose horse.” Then she told us to keep still so she could listen, and we all got scared again. Lilian whispered that she heard breathing, and when Nora said, “Course you do, it’s me,” everybody laughed.
Patty began to get tired of our nonsense and said, “Girls! No burglar would try to get in here after all that shrieking! It is a wonder that the people at the club house haven’t been roused before this!”