Just hark to them now!" Through their closed windows penetrated the sound of scurrying feet and loud, ribald laughter.

What a crowd; nay, what a mob, must be hastening busily to and from the spot where there was now nothing to be seen! Mrs.Bunting made her husband lock the front gate.

"I don't want any of those ghouls in here!" she exclaimed angrily.

And then, "What a lot of idle people there are in the world!" she said..