She was just
in time to see some-thing big and white run down toward the lake.
There was a clash and jingling as of chains, and a splashing of water.
Then the white thing disappeared, and the girls stood staring at one
another, trembling violently.
CHAPTER XX
THE STORM
Grace "draped" herself over the nearest cot. Amy followed her example,
with the added distinction that she covered her head with the
blankets. Betty and Mollie stood clinging to each other.
"Though I don't think they were any braver than we," declared Grace
afterward. "They simply couldn't fall down, for Betty wanted to go one
way and Grace the other. So they just naturally held each other up."
"I couldn't stand," declared Amy. "My, knees shook so."
Aunt Kate was the first to speak after the apparition had passed away,
seeming to lose itself in the lake.
"Girls, have you any idea what it was?" she asked.
"The-- the--" began Amy. "Oh, I can't say it!" she wailed from beneath
the covers.
"Don't be silly!" commanded Betty, sharply. "If you mean-- ghost-- say
so," but she herself hesitated over the word.
"If that was the ghost it was the queerest one I ever saw!" declared
Mollie, with resolution.
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