"But if ever a man saw one, I did just now--the ghost of
Barney Mulloy!"
Hodge stared at his friend as if wondering if Frank's mind was not
affected.
"What do you mean?"
"Just what I have said to you. I saw an apparition that resembled Barney
Mulloy. And I not only saw it, but I heard it. It came right along here,
and turned in there, and then I heard it in the corridor. I threw open
the corridor door before any one could have got out of there, and the
corridor was empty!"
"You must have been dreaming!"
"Not a bit of it, Bart. I hadn't gone to bed. I haven't been even a bit
sleepy. I was sitting at my window, and I saw it as plainly as I see
you."
"You certainly must have been dreaming, Merry!" Bart insisted. "Have you
looked all about?"
"Everywhere."
Bart walked over to the door which opened from the corridor on the lawn.
It was not locked.
"It couldn't have been Barney, of course; but whoever it was went
through here into the corridor."
"And how did he get out of the corridor?"
"Walked on through into the office."
"The office is closed. The landlord and all the servants retired long
ago."
"Well, it couldn't have been a ghost!"
"I am wondering if it could have been Barney himself?"
"He was--attacked near Sea Cove, not here!"
"I am going to rout out the landlord," Merriwell declared.
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