But Horace had an idea.
“The caretaker’s cottage must be back down the road. I think we passed it without seeing it. Maybe he can explain it.”
“What is there to explain?” asked Mrs. Riker sadly, starting down the steps. “Tombs aren’t built for the living.”
“Sometimes they are. Sometimes people prefer to choose their own monuments while they’re still alive, and it looks as if that’s the way your uncle felt about it. There’s no death date under his name,” Horace observed. “I think the vault is empty.”
Judy hoped it was.
“Come on, let’s go back to the car,” Honey urged. “If a voice spoke to us now, I really would run.”
“The children thought they heard one,” Judy called after her teasingly.
“It scared us,” Penny confessed. “We thought it was Uncle Paul’s ghost. It said, ‘Go away.’”
“You know, dead people do come back,” Paul put in gravely. “It’s magic, I think. We know, on account of Daddy.”
“We saw him,” Penny added.