The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-27

scramble up over those rocks In the
world, says l, and says he: No more
she couldn't says he, and so We come
home. 1t was all we could do, too. !
guess you boys had a time of 1t. tryin'
to get up there in the night, even IL twas
moonlight. But you found your ghost?'
Mr.. Sharpless laughed long and loud.
The boys joined in, but their mirth was
somewhat checked and chastened when
they remembered some of the incidents of
that solemn climb.
When they were sure that their charge
was quite safe, they went tumbing down
the mountain side. and in quarter of the
time which 1t had taken Mark and Arthur
to travel the same distance with the ted
der, they were struggling into the drive
way at Butternut Lodge.
Their return was very different from the
stealthy crawl into bed which they had
pictured to themselves when they started
out. They had calculated to get home
before Mr.. Welman and Adrian should be
at their chores in the barn. They were al
ways up before at this time of the year.
When they had gone to bed and taken
little nap, the boys then had intended to
get up as usual at the sound of the rising
bell. and they were going TO remain pro-
foundry secretve forever afterwarrd con-
corning the subject Of their ghosuy pill
grimage.
The real outcome was very different. 1t
was nearly o'clock Their absence had
been discovered almost as soon as the
family were up. Mrs. Wyman and Mrs.
Robbins had been gloomy and forehoding
for nearly two hours II the boys had
not returned pretty soon, their mothers
would have started just such another
search as had been organized To IND Wild
dab GerShom. They were sitting out UNI
der the butternut tree, gazing off over the
distant pastures. and talking in desui-
tory and nervous fashion. Every few mo-
/ ments they stopped to listen At one n
these listening times they had caught
I faint hints OF the boys conversation when
/ they were nearly "A mile away. There was
4 a certain point across the brook just be
/ You'd where the road came into view on
! the hin opposite, where the distance. as
the crow flies. was really very short
/ When the boys went for the mail the first
( limitations Of their return were heard
I when they reached this point II was a
/ few rods from Nit Walkers farmhouse
1 There" Madeline cried, when this far
/ off murmur was waited TO the ears Of the
uneasy little group under tho outternuts
There, They are surely coming Tell
/ Mr. WelmRu that hc needn't harness Put
Now We shall tpd out every thing on,
mayn't Sc 10 meet them
No" said her mother We viii all go
down the walk and there We Will wait
There shall hr no ecStatic welcome until
We nnd what the youths nave To say Tor
themselves This Is pretty serious bust
ness. remember. Madeline just think
what fright they have given u.s.
So there they We're, Joined by this time
by Mrs. Wellman and lnrz-all 90 them
palpitauug with Impotence and the TWO
mothers divided between an intense joy
that they could count in the distance the
figures OF all their family and sincere
wrath that such an expedition should
have been undertaken without consult
Ing them
slowly up the last hill below the Lodge
came on the weary little party. II WAS a
warm cloudy morning. with signs Of
rain. Arthur was a trihe IN advance Of
the others and Percy was close Sec
ond
oh hurry. hurry" called the mothers.
who could not understand this snaii-llke
progress.
"We.ro Tired came back from the ap-
preaching boys.
Where have you heen?" called Made
line.
Go, any berries" screamed Incz who
had maintained an along that the boys
had merely taken an early start for their
/ btrryiug
The gun now riveted Mrs Robbins at
teation, Lyman and Whit who OWNED