But Bailey motioned her back.
"I'd keep back a little," he cautioned.

"You don't know what may be inside." "Mercy sakes, who wants to know ?" shivered Lizzie.

Dale and Miss Cornelia, too, stepped aside involuntarily as Bailey took the candle and prepared, with a good deal of caution, to open the closet door.
The door swung open at last.

He could look in.

He did so--and stared appalled at what he saw, while goose flesh crawled on his spine and the hairs of his head stood up.
After a moment he closed the door of the closet and turned back, white-faced, to the others.
"What is it ?" said Dale aghast.