CHAPTER XIX
ROBBED!
For days the girls could think of little else than the initiation into the "Ghost Club" and their startling meeting with the "Codfish." Whenever they could get together between classes or at noon or before they went to bed, these were the topics of conversation. And of these, the "Codfish" held first place.
"He must be a real burglar," Connie said during one of these gatherings.
"Of course he was," said Rose, looking a little bored. "Respectable men don't sneak around places at all hours of the night."
"But what in the world did he want?" Laura asked wonderingly. "You wouldn't think he'd come out from the woods at all—especially when there's such a bright moon. He might be sure some one would see him."
"Oh, I don't know," said Billie thoughtfully. "He probably knows the rules of Three Towers and that the girls are all supposed to be in bed before ten o'clock, and I suppose he felt safe enough. We should have been in bed, you know," she added, dimpling mischievously.
"But I wonder what he was sneaking around Three Towers for," Laura went on, unwilling to change the subject. For to Laura, mysteries were the very breath of life.
"Maybe he's waiting for a chance to rob us," said Vi in an awed little voice, and the girls shuddered.