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H -three nights'-and we had about T e ^ ^ t« * d «again when one hue
m orning we found the hall door open again.
As before, rwe carefully locked it, slept well th at night and-in
the morning discovered ,it. standing serenely open.
T his was certainly growing- interesting. There were but thre£
of; us room ing on th at floor. Marion and I .who roomed opposite 1
each other .and: Alice
who roomed .down at thq,/)thej end of the
hall. .
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W e had said nothing- to h e r about the inexplicable doot and as
she made npi mention of having- seen or heard anything untfshal we
O p p o se d she knew ;nothing Of | | R disquieting 'o c e u rre n c ^d ^
T h at night we dragged my hea,vy, trunk across, th^,, door.’ and
during th e night heard it shifted once and then silence.; In th$ mortt-
ing, investigation showed th a t the trunk had been lUoved half way
around but the door w asstiilllo ck ed .
There .was too much of the uncanny ab^u£ th e g ^ happenings
and Marion and I began H R chronically ri-etvo^’a n ^ ^ i i h a r y lit
tle noises during the d a y tim e startled us:" J T h at dky w e .decided H
arm ourselves. Marion found a nickle-plated .cap-pistol, and I made
fun of the. ridicuIphs^Uft^-thing.
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“O h !” she saicb B H a .burg-laf he’ll -see the g lrtfe q o n the
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nickle and th a t’ll scrire him.”
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T he, only weapon »T'i^puld find was a hamhier,p §0 with these
warlike instruments, we m ade?our rounds b e fo r^ re tirin g .
dragged »the E B R -before the door again and saw th at everything-
in the way of doors and windows Were lo c k e ^ ls ^ te l^ /: L ater in
' the night We again heard the tru n k being moved-around arid alm’os^,;
at the same time/S- chair w a^-W erturned w ith a cbaWer/ '. Then
followed-the all ¿¿«folding silence. The thing w a s,b e a m in g Unbear-
-abley? G rasping my hamnier I- tiptoed s o ftly to m y :« d o b r and as
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it and flashed my light up and down the hall.
body in sight,.,/1’ Stepped^'crpss to M arion’s
’^ t ’pjekred face
rose from behind they-BeSb.?» |
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“O o!” said Marion, ^ t h o u g h t he had ^ u and wa-s c-oming
after me.”
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T ogether w.e m£tde>a tour
in s t i g a t i o n . T h ^ e ^ y a s the over-
turned chair and there the tru n k half wayS-ound again.
E verything ’¿earned’ quiet and a g r a ^ i k p silence, vre^ted un-
¿ehallenged.
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W e turned and W ib e iT d o w n the h < ?fo A lice’s room, ih e
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