plate just where her head ought to have been, so she was headless."

"That sure was a ghost!" cried Shep; and then all laughed.

The boys were to take the seven o'clock train back to Fairview,
so at five o'clock they bid farewell to Mr. Jally and walked toward
Mrs. Carson's house to get supper. Just as they turned the corner
of a street close to the house they heard a man yelling wildly. He
was running rapidly at the same time.

"What's that fellow saying?" asked Whopper. "Maybe it's a fire."

"No, he didn't say fire," returned Snap. "It sounded to me like
lion."

"Lion?" questioned Whopper.

"Look out for the lion!" bawled the man. "Look out for the lion!"
And down the street he went on the double-quick.

"He did say lion!" exclaimed Giant.

"One of the circus lions must have gotten free!" burst out the
doctor's son.

"Or else those circus men let him loose!" returned Snap. "Don't you
remember they said something about a lion?"

"So they did."