human
Wonder how Aunt Susan will like the blooming old shack?
gpt
You, said, she wanted it quiet, you know, Alec, observed Hugh.
human
I defy any one to find a place that fills that bill better than this one. Why, not even the peep of a bird can be heard; it's just a brooding silence that would get on the nerves of most people and make them shout out loud.
gpt
Let's hope it stays that way while we're up here, said Billy, and then noticing that some of the other fellows were smiling broadly he hastened to add:
human
Oh! it isn't that I really expect anything like a ghost to walk when it comes midnight, you understand, but I don't always sleep as sound as I would like, and I hate to have anything screechy wake me up. So, Monkey, please keep that goose-call of yours in your pocket the rest of the time.
gpt
Perhaps, we had better get ourselves comfortably fixed before night finds us, suggested Hugh.
human
We can make a blaze in that fireplace and cook supper here as nice as any one would want. It's going to turn out a novel experience for the lot of us.
gpt
You bet it, will, asserted Monkey Stallings stoutly.
human
I always did think I'd like to spend just one night in a house they said was haunted. To tell you the honest-truth I'm real glad you asked me to come along, Alec, even if there does seem to be a queer feeling running up and down my backbone. I never knew the like before save that time I was dared to walk through the graveyard at midnight, and some fellows tried to scare me with their old sheets. Huh! I had made sure to carry Tige, my bulldog, hid under my coat, and I just let him loose. It makes me sick with laughing even now when I remember how those sillies tore off, with that pup snapping at their legs.
gpt
I'm glad to notice, said Billy, just then,
human
Shucks! mocked Alec, disdainfully.
gpt
What good are locks and bars and bolts when they say a ghost can ooze itself in through a keyhole even? But then don't get an idea in your head, Billy, we're going to be bothered by anything except rats. That's the only kind of spooks you'll find in such a place as this. And after we've had our supper I hope you'll all accompany me while I take some views of the interior, because several of the rooms are going to make dandy pictures.