CHAPTER XIII
THE ROBBERS AND THE HAUNTED HOUSE
"Billiard, did you ever see a ghost?"
It was almost a week since the bank robbery had occurred, and still no clue as to the identity of the robbers had been found, although posses were still searching the country, determined to catch them if such a thing were possible. But the excitement of the event had already died down in the youthful minds of Silver Bow, and other topics of conversation absorbed their attention.
"Naw," answered Billiard contemptuously, without looking up from the stick he was whittling. "What's eating you, Toady? There ain't any ghosts, and you know it."
"What about that haunted house in the east end of town?"
"'Tain't haunted."
"Susie says it is."
"And Tabitha has lived alone near it for six or seven years and she has never seen anything stirring there."
"But ghosts walk only at midnight. She's never been there at night."