“It’s too dark to see anything tonight,” Rosanna protested nervously.
“I guess we may as well give it up until morning,” Penny agreed.
The girls stole quietly down the stairs to the lower floor. However, an unpleasant surprise awaited them. As they opened the door into the main passageway they found themselves face to face with Mrs. Leeds and Alicia.
“So I find you here again!” the woman exclaimed. “I suspected before that you girls were at the bottom of these nightly disturbances. Now I have the proof.”
Penny was too annoyed to even try to explain why she had visited the third floor. She would have ignored the woman and passed on to her own room had not Rosanna been so distressed by the ridiculous accusation.
“We’ve had absolutely nothing to do with the queer things which have been going on in this house,” the orphan maintained indignantly.
“Then why were you upstairs at this time of night? Only a minute or two ago Alicia and I heard music.”
“We were trying to learn what caused it, Mrs. Leeds.”
“A likely story!” Alicia said with a toss of her head.
“You may believe it or not, just as you wish,” Penny returned coldly.