"But what is it?"
"Did you," said he, "notice that passage in the opposite wall, a few yards back?"
I whispered that I had.
"Well," said Milton Rhodes, "there is something in there. And it's coming this way!"
Chapter 29
THE GHOST
We waited, listening intently; but the place was as silent as the tomb.
"What," I asked, "did you hear?"
"I have no idea, Bill, what it was."