The Secret of the Sundial / Madge Sterling Series, #3

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e comforted the shaking Cara. "We'll not make you go

aw a g

"I guess you saw so many ghosts during the

her head

moving around in the Swenster yard-I don't kno

to a chair. The girls were disturbed to see that she

hosts don't exist," Madge said sternly

nd found the gate ajar. Believe me, I wasn't very keen to go inside, but I made my

look like?" E

frightened me so I turned and ran. I made

t doing in the Swenster yard?

with a

nouncement called forth gales of laughter in which all joined save Madge. She had begun to think that perha

een seeing thing

me, go there yourself and

o the argument by suggesting

she said. "I vote that without further ceremony

nd Enid went to the kitchen to dish up ice cream and cake. Everyone was very sweet to Cara, trying to atone for

r ice cream, Mr. and Mrs. Brady re

t happened," Jane warned as foo

the society of young people and never objected when Madge overran the house with her friends

's offer to drive them home in his car. Madge had hoped to speak alone

what happened tonight at the Swenster mansion. Cara isn't the sort to be fright

g lodge at Loon Lake, Canada. There she had met Jack French, a young forest ranger, who had taken more than an ordinary interest in her. Her friendship for an orphan, Anne Fairaday, had p

she had found the Burnett yacht abandoned. In trying to discover what became of Mr. Burnett she was brought into dange

boarded up all these years," Madge reflected as she undresse

ed her more than she knew for her dreams were of the wildest sort. It seemed to her that she had slept half the

elf nervously, sitting up in be

indecision she decided to investigate. Slipping into her bathrobe, she stole softly down the stairway. Sh

lung open and Uncle George sto

at the foot of the stairs?" he

extremely funny and she ma

of a joke-" Mr. Brad

m, but it was some time before she could clear herself. She finally coaxed h

Wayne. During algebra class, when the teacher's back was turne

ster ghost," Madge commanded as they linke

" Cara sighed. "I'm willing to admit it couldn't hav

hing her friend mischievously. "Let's go to th

shran

I don't care

ember, for a week you're supposed to obey the c

unwillingly, "but I don't see

ped to learn. It was pure intuition that had inspired the little adv

"It will be fun! Before we're through, I'll