the spectre through the long winding passages of the old castle.
Whenever he hesitated, a white, luminous arm, hung around with ghostly
chains, beckoned him on."

"Gosh!" murmured the enthralled William. "I'd have bin scared!"

"At the panel in the wall the ghost stopped, and silently the panel
slid aside, revealing a flight of stone steps. Down this went the
apparition followed by our intrepid hero. There was a small stone
chamber at the bottom, and into this the rays of moonlight poured,
revealing a skeleton in a sitting attitude beside a chest of golden
sovereigns. The gold gleamed in the moonlight."

"Golly!" gasped William, red with excitement.

"William!"

The cry came from somewhere in the sunny garden outside. William
frowned sternly, took another bite of apple, and continued to read.

"Our hero gave a cry of astonishment."

"Yea, I'd have done that all right," agreed William.

"_William!_"

"Oh, shut _up_!" called William, irritably, thereby revealing his
hiding-place.

His grown-up sister, Ethel, appeared in the doorway.