I had hardly regained my bed and pulled a blanket round me when a most terrible outcry broke forth from across the dining-room. "A female voice, shrill and steriled, was calling out with evident indignation—"How dare you? How dare you, Sir? Who are you? Go away at once. Harry! Harry!
Then the voice of Harry boomed out and safely in bed!
'The next moment my door flew open. The ghost, his movements longer encumbered, burst. into. the room, and shot through' it towards the bathroom. There was a shattering crash as he tripped over the tin tub, and an awful oath. The outer door was flung open, and T heard the ghost's running footsteps patter away down the drive, The uproar in the opposite bedroom was not stilled. Indeed, it seemed to Increase as the lady collected her wits, A lamp had been lit, and the female voice was chattering with rage and excitement like an angry old monkey, while the male voice rumbled pacifically as opportunity offered, There was indeed a break in it like: the beginnings of a laugh, but it was cut short by the assertion that see nothing, amusing about it whatever, Henry.
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