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wish-bone," said Rose, "and I was just going to wish that I'd find the ghost when, all of a sudden, I heard it!" "Now see here, you two!" exclaimed Daddy Bunker, speaking to Russ and Rose, while Laddie and Vi, with Mun Bun and Margy, were still at their game. "You mustn't be talking about such things as ghosts. There isn't any such thing, and you may scare the younger children." "How did you hear about a ghost at Great Hedge?" asked Grandpa Ford curiously. Russ and Rose looked at each other. The time had come to tell of their listening under the window, and they felt a little ashamed of it. But they had been taught to tell the truth, no matter how much it hurt, and they must do it now. "How did you know about a ghost?" asked Mother Bunker. "We--we heard you and Grandpa Ford talking about it--the time he came to our house," confessed Russ. He felt that he, being the oldest, must speak first. "We listened under the window," added Rose. She wanted to do her share of the telling. "That was very wrong to do," said her mother. "But, of course, I know you didn't mean to do wrong. Still, as it happened, no great harm was done, but you should have told me about it at the time. It was not right to be so mysterious about it, nor to have it as a secret. You two children are too small to have secrets away from Father and Mother, unless they are little ones, like birthday surprises and the like. Now, don't listen under windows again." "We won't," promised Russ and Rose, who then told the whole story. "But is there a ghost?" asked Russ, as the strange noise sounded again. "No, of course not," said Daddy Bunker. "But, since you have heard part of the story, you may as well hear all of it." Seeing that the four smaller children were busy at their play, and would not listen to what he said, Daddy Bunker drew Russ and Rose up on his lap and began: "You remember when Grandpa Ford came to see us, he said he wanted to take us back with him, and, if we could, have us help him find out something queer about Great Hedge, which he had bought from Mr. Ripley. The 'something queer' was that, every now and then, noises, such as you heard just now, sound through the house. Grandpa Ford and Grandma Ford couldn't find out where they came from, and neither Mr. Ripley nor his daughter knew what made them. "Of course," went on Daddy Bunker, "some people, when they hear a strange sound or see a strange sight, think it is a gh
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