"TOM OSSINGTON'S GHOST."
"Right--Straight across--three--four--up.
"Right--cat--dog--cat--dog--cat--dog--cat--dog--left eye--push."
The two girls read to the end--then over again. Then they looked at each other--Madge with smiling eyes.
"That's very instructive, isn't it?"
"Very. There seems to be a good deal of cat and dog about it."
"There does, I wonder what it means."
"If it means anything."
Madge, taking the paper from Ella's hand, went with it closer to the candle. She eyed it very shrewdly, turning it over and over, and making as if she were endeavouring to read between the lines.
"Do you know, Ella, that there is something curious about this."