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Almost in the same breath. "No, I want you all to go up and get into
bed," said Mrs. Gilligan decidedly. "If I see anything," she added, with
a grim smile, "anything that looks like a ghost that is, I'll call you."
"That's a promise," said Chet, looking back over his shoulder as he
reluctantly followed the others upstairs. "Because if I should miss
getting a look at that ghost, I'd be disappointed for life." "Well, I've
had enough of spooks to last _me_ forever," said Laura, with a shivery
glance over her shoulder as the boys left the girls at their door and
started off down the hall. "If that piano begins to play itself again
to-night, I'll just die, that's all there is to it." The girls crept
into bed, careful to leave their candles burning. "You know, Billie,"
said Violet in an awed little voice, "this thing is really getting
serious." "I should say so," agreed Laura, drawing the bed clothes a
little tighter about her. "Well, it isn't my fault, is it?" asked
Billie. "I didn't ask Aunt Beatrice to leave me a haunted house. And,
anyway," she added very truthfully, "it was you, Laura, w