“Ghost? What ghost?”
“You live here, yet you haven’t learned that the grounds are haunted?” Penny inquired significantly. “Nearly every night a man in white wanders back and forth in the garden.”
“I don’t know anything about it!” the woman said nervously. “I’ll not answer any more questions either!”
Plainly frightened, she snapped shut the padlock of the gate and fled into the house.
CHAPTER
17
ADVENTURE BY MOONLIGHT
A moment Penny stood gazing at the estate house. She considered climbing the iron fence and trying to gain entrance to the dwelling. Then, deciding that nothing would be achieved by again accosting the strange woman, she returned to the waiting taxi.
“Where to?” asked the cabman.
“It’s still the police station,” directed Penny, repeating an earlier order. “I have twice as much to report now.”
As the cab pulled away, she noticed a movement of curtains at the front of the estate house. Evidently the woman who had fled, was watching.
Joe made a quick trip to Riverview, depositing Penny at the doorstep of Central Station.