And there's something else!" "Yes ?" "I've got something to tell you that, say, I didn't have the heart to explain to K.K.'s mother, because she's bad enough frightened as it is; but it's looking particularly ugly to me, now that he hasn't come back.

Oh! perhaps there is more'n a grain of truth in all those terrible stories those hayseeds tell about that place!" Hugh put up the receiver with a bang, made a dash for his cap, slipped on his sweater, for he knew the night air was cold, and then shot out of doors.

Somehow those last few words of Horatio, breathing of mystery as they did, had excited his curiosity until it now reached fever-pitch.
As he knew of several short-cuts across lots it took him but a few minutes to arrive at the Juggins home.

Horatio was waiting at the door, and must have heard him running up the steps, for he instantly opened it to admit him.
"Gee, but I'm glad you've come, Hugh!" was his greeting.

"She's in there with mother, and taking on awful about it.