Sneddecker, who stopped there to eat his supper one night when he went
out to set his eel pots-- Hi told me he seen something tall and white
rushing around, and making a terrible noise in the bushes."

"I thought ghosts never made a noise," remarked Grace, languidly. She
was beginning to believe now that it was only a poor attempt at a
joke.

"Hi said this one did," went on Mr. Lagg, being too interested to
quote verses now. "It was him as told me about the clanking chains,"
he went on, "but, as I said, I don't take no stock in that part."

"I guess Hi was telling one of his fish stories," commented Frank.

"Oh, Josh Whiteby seen it, too," said Mr. Lagg. He was enjoying the
sensation he had created.

"Is he reliable?" asked Will.

"Well, he don't owe me as much as some," was the judicious answer.
"Josh says he seen the white thing, but he didn't mention no chains.
It was more like a 'swishing' sound he heard.

"Dot any more tandy?" asked Paul, and the laugh that followed in a
measure relieved the nerves of the girls, for in spite of their almost
entire disbelief in what they had heard, the talk bothered them a
little.

"There are no such things as ghosts!" declared Betty, with excellent
sense. "We are silly to even talk about them. Oh, there is something I