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“If one of us wasn’t such a fraid cat,” Betsy informed them, “I’d like to climb this stairway and see where it leads.”

“If you mean me, Betsy Clossen,” Sally, for once, flared up, “go ahead. If Virginia isn’t afraid to go, neither am I.”

The girls had no difficulty in crossing the uneven cellar floor in the dim light from the stairway, but after they had glanced up and had seen a closed door at the top, Virginia drew back. “Girls,” she said, “I question if we ought to prowl about other people’s houses.”

“But Virg, we wouldn’t harm anything,” Barbara protested. “Peyton is always telling of some haunted house he once visited and I’ve been wild to see one for myself.”

After much persuasion, Virginia agreed to go to the top of the stairs if the girls would consent to go back then. “Surely the hour is nearly up and what would we do if the bus had passed and we were stranded so far from school and after dark.”

The picture was not a pleasing one and Sally clung to Virginia’s arm, though she would not openly acknowledge that she was frightened.