"Wha--what ghosts?"
"Yes."
"No, I'm not," he answered sharply. "But if it were night I think I'd
run. Pshaw! you're no more ghost than I am. You're just a girl and I
am going to find out where you are right now."
Acting upon his resolution, Tad began searching for the owner of the
voice again. But when he had crawled to one side of the rock, the
voice appeared to be on the other, where he had just been.
After a time Tad gave it up. He no longer heard the mysterious voice,
so he clambered down, and after examining the rock from the ground
once more, mounted his pony for return to camp.
Arriving there, his companions wanted to know where he had been, but
Tad managed to evade their question without giving them a direct
answer.
He was determined to return on the following day, when he would go
about finding the owner of the mysterious voice in a different way.
When Tom Phipps came in from work, Tad drew him aside at the first
opportunity.
"I've been over to the Ruby Mountain to-day, but please don't tell
anyone."
"Saw something, did you?" laughed the assistant superintendent.
"No, that's the trouble. I didn't."
"What happened then?"
"I did not see, but I heard." Tad then related all that had occurred
on his visit to the strange mountain.
Phipps did not laugh. He remained silent and thoughtful for some
moments.
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