“Who is he?—have you any idea?” Violet asked.
“Can’t you guess?” Helen answered. “Isn’t he someone connected with the Graham family?”
“What was he trying to do—scare us?” Julietta inquired, addressing the question as much to herself as to anybody else.
“I should imagine something of the kind, although he may be the crazy man the Graham girls spoke about,” said Helen.
“I don’t believe there is any such person,” Miss Ladd volunteered at this point.
“Then why did they suggest such an idea?” Violet questioned.
“I don’t know, unless it was to frighten us,” the Guardian replied.
“Frighten us away from here,” Harriet supplemented.
“Exactly,” said Helen. “That’s my theory of the affair. Don’t you remember what Glen Irving said just before Addie Graham put in her appearance and cut short our interview with the boy?”
“He said something about ghosts,” Harriet recalled.