"I'd much prefer to being asleep in my own comfy bed at home when midnight comes around, and the last thing on earth you'd catch me doing would be out hunting spooks." It was just as Julius finished saying this that they received a sudden shock.

A loud and thrilling sound, not unlike a human shriek, came to their ears, filling each and every boy in the car with a sense of unmitigated horror.

It was so exceedingly dreadful that K.K.
involuntarily brought the auto to a full stop, and then turned a face filled with mingled curiosity and awe upon his comrades..