“No, sir,” spoke up John promptly. “That wasn’t it at all. Besides there was more than one voice.”
“You didn’t hear the automobile-horn, did you?” inquired George.
“No, we didn’t. We heard all I wanted to without hearing that. It just made my flesh creep to hear those voices upstairs and coming down the stairway.”
“Was there anything strange about the voices?” asked George.
“Yes, sir, there was.”
“Well, I tell you what I’ll do,” said Grant promptly. “I’ll dare both of you to come back here to the old Meeker House after dinner to-night.”
“I’ll do it,” said Fred promptly.
“I’ll give you another dare better than that,” said John. “I’ll dare you and George to go back there right now.”
“Will you come too?” demanded George.
“We have just come from there,” said John. “We know what there is there and you don’t. Now we dare you both to go back right now.”