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She s to take out an ad in the newspaper soon, swearing that I’m fine" She looked at Penny and added softly "And that I’? Why should you leave?" Carter asked frowning

"Penny thinks the ghost followed her to the library and pushed the floorboards through"

Carter tried to hide a sht that she was here to talk to the ghost"

"Go ahead, nantly

Carter found a chair at the table as well "Penny, I’host, and I’host wanted to talk to someone Clear the air Be released fro!"

"Our ghosts have never dragged chains around--or even e in her voice

Carter was trying very hard not to s you I just can’t see any correlation between old floorboards giving out and a ghost that should be relegated to haunting a single place I host have you ever heard about that travels around the countryside haunting different places?"

She stared at him hard "You want my opinion?"

"Well, not really," Clint lance "You two and Matt think that it would be an unhosts, and therefore, you won’t accept anything Even though Darcy found poor A for over a hundred years! She won’t adhost told her where to find it"

"Did the ghost tell you where to find it?" Clint asked Darcy

Despite herself, Darcy felt a flush rising Penny needed backing, but she didn’t want to get Clint and Carter going

"Research, intuition, and y from the past," she murmured uncomfortably

"So there!" Penny said

"Yeah, so there Darcy looked up the history behind the legend," Carter said "Penny, come on! Even Matt spent a lot of time in that rooht it was so historic and fascinating"

"Yeah--he spent ti

"I spent so at Clint

Penny glared at hiet a tongue-lashing on his wild, wo ways as well?"

Penny set a hand on Carter’s "At least this poor boy was in love with Susan Howell"

"Susan Howell?" Clint said "What about Catherine Angsley, Tammy what-ever-her-last-na woman?"

"Eh!" Carter said to Clint

"He, at least, cared very deeply about Susan"

"Penny, the point here," Carter said, "is that all of us so-called longing-to-be- happening A scared little bride anted the rooht Clara Issy freaked out while cleaning And Darcy claihost buster Sorry, Darcy," he said quickly

"Maybe it’s a ghost who only dislikes wo "You know, sos too They have definite preferences for male and feo? Gracie was her name She absolutely despised men, but becareed "And re Lavinia had?"

"Lhasa Apso," Clint told hi was the cutest little pile of white fur in the world--until a guy went to pet it Then it was all teeth and obnoxious yaps," Carter recalled

"Matt should have known not to ," Clint said

"Ah, hell, we all thought she was the hottest thing since fire had been invented," Carter re off the subject," Penny said

"I didn’t realize ere really on a subject," Clint said

"But, Penny, there you go, ere on the subject, we sih "We have a ghost that isn’t fond of woood-looking girls"