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"Oh, no," Mabel said "No, no, no!"

"Please, Mabesie I need to do this" She broke down and told Mabel everything she hadn’t about theRuta’s buckle, the whistling, Naughty John’s connection to Knowles’ End, and Mee, brief visit to the museum in which he said the house seemed lived in

"Jeepers, Evie," Mabel said, shivering, and then she was thinking Evie knew Mabel’s thinking expressions; the old girl was co in there without taking precautions" Mabel signaled for Evie to follow her as shethe baseball "Do you know that old house on the hill?"

"Yes, Miss," they said

"Does anyone live there? Have you seen anyone coo in there Not even for dares," one boy said emphatically

Mabel looked at Evie as if to say You see?

"Well, we are going in It’s… a dare For our sorority," Mabel informed them

The other boy shook his head "That’s your funeral, Miss"

"Hoould you fellas like to make ten cents?"

The boys followed them to the corner, which was as far as their o, they said

"If Miss O’Neill and I are not out in thirtythe law," Mabel instructed

"We don’t get the law for nobody They’re as bad as the house"

"How about if we’re not out in thirty minutes, you throw that baseball at theas hard as you can, then run for your mothers Can you do that?"

"It’s our only baseball"