CHAPTER XXIII
A DOUBLE CAPTIVITY
"It's a ghost!" gasped Belle as the voice out of the storm died away down the wind.
"So are you!" snapped Madge. "What would a ghost want any help for? Ridiculous!"
"Goodness me!" drawled Heavy. "Seems to me even a disembodied spirit might feel the need of help if it was out in such a gale as this."
"I mean that we only thought we heard the voice," chattered Belle.
"Funny we should all think with such unanimity," scoffed Ruth. "That was certainly a very able-bodied spirit—There!"
Again the cry came brokenly through the storm.
"Somebody lost like ourselves," said Lluella, with a shiver.
"And he sees the light of our fire," Jennie Stone urged.
"We must help, whoever it is," Ruth cried. "Shout, girls! Maybe he wants to know the way"
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