"If
you solve that mystery for me it will be a big favor, and worth paying
for. I might make up a verse about that part of it, but I won't take
your time. But please consider it."
"If we did it at all," spoke Mollie, "we would do it as a favor to you,
for you have been very kind to us. But I don't like to promise to
undertake it. I'm sure mamma would object."
"I wouldn't want to stay all night in a haunted house," declared Amy,
with a shudder, whereat Grace cried:
"Don't do that! You'll have us all nervous before we know it."
"You might not have to stay there all night," said Mr. Lagg, "though of
course I know that is customary in solving mysteries of this kind. You
might be able to tell what it was without staying there long. I wouldn't
want you to run any risks, you know."
"Why don't you undertake it yourself?" asked Betty.
"I can't spare the time. I am needed at my store. That boy is sure to
wrap up the wrong kind of tea or sugar, and my customers are very
particular. And as for the poetry end of the business, he is no good at
that at all. No, I can't spare the time."
"But if you think those doctors have an object in making the mansion
appear haunted," spoke Grace, "why do you not go to the authorities and
complain? Surely they would do something for you."
"I thought of that," said Mr. Lagg, simply, "but you know what the
police are about ghosts.
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