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She wouldn't ring for Lizzie to colad, nevertheless, when Lizzie appeared at the door

"Miss Neily"

"Yes, Lizzie?" Miss Cornelia's voice was composed but her heart felt a throb of relief

"Can I--can I sit in here with you, Miss Neily, just aout in the kitchen watching that Jap read his funny newspaper the wrong way and listening for ghosts till I'm nearly crazy!"

"Why, certainly, Lizzie," said Miss Cornelia prih," she added doubtfully, "I really shouldn't pamper your absurd fears, I suppose, but--"

"Oh, please, Miss Neily!"

"Very well," said Miss Cornelia brightly "You can sit here, Lizzie--and help me work the ouija-board That will take your roaned "You know I'd rather be shot than touch that uncanny ouijie!" she said dolefully "It gives me the creeps every time I put my hands on it!"

"Well, of course, if you'd rather sit in the kitchen, Lizzie--"

"Oh, give me the ouijie!" said Lizzie in tones of heartbreak "I'd rather be shot and stabbed than stay in the kitchen any more"

"Very well," said Miss Cornelia, "it's your own decision, Lizzie--remember that" Her needles clicked on "I'll just finish this row before we start," she said "You ht company in theup and I want to find out if they intend to turn out the lights tonight as they did last night Tell theht that way"

"It's worse than inconvenient,"off all the lights in a haunted house, like this one As if spooks wasn't bad enough with the lights on--"

"Lizzie!"

"Yes, Miss Neily--I wasn't going to say another word" She went to the telephone Miss Cornelia knitted on--knit two--purl two-- In spite of her experihosts--and yet--there were things one couldn't explain by logic Was there so the corridors--a vague shape of evil, drifting like mist from room to room, till its cold breath whispered on one's back and--there! She had ruined her knitting, the last tould have to be ripped out That cahosts like a ninny

She put down the knitting with an exasperated little gesture Lizzie had just finished her telephoning and was hanging up the receiver

"Well, Lizzie?"

"Yes' at the phone "That's what he says--they turned off the lights last night because there was a stor He says it burns out their fuses if they leave 'em on in a storm"